Le Vase d'Or, 45 éléments, Paris,, 1999

by Pascal Therme

Photography : fine art print 115 x 65 x 0.3 cm 45.3 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch

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Photography: fine art print

Dimensions cm inch

115 x 65 x 0.3 cm 45.3 x 25.6 x 0.1 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Not framed


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Still Life

Fragmentation

Vase

Interior

Artwork sold in perfect condition

Artwork location: France

Le Vase d'Or, 45 items, Paris,

Digital version from the original, on Polaroid SX70.
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The first composition which inaugurates the series of Parisian Interiors, was made in the studio on Polaroid SX 70 film, from the central Vase placed on the bistro table. The artistic direction was not to be decorative, technical, but pictorial, in order to use the natural light of Paris, beautiful at this time, entering from the right. The vase, central object, with its singular history, with its roses evokes a warm interior, without adding other sources of lighting, artificial. In this configuration the vase remained definitely not very luminous, a kind of pitching is established on the right of the composition. it was thus necessary to photograph it against the light to illuminate it and to make the gold of the incoming light. The vase exposed against the light became luminous, as if illuminated from the inside, carrying the poetry of the roses towards more intensities. This qualitative change becomes a metaphor and makes the pictorial composition magical, whereas without this change of axis, the image would have been less interesting.
Composing the image by live fragments, required other interventions to dynamize and tune the backgrounds so that their coherence gives a deep and dynamic balance. Thus it was necessary for certain elements to reposition the table and the vase very precisely so that the eye could play to its fullest, after having "disciplined" the leaks due to the 35 mm lens.
Working by element allowed to get closer to the work of the painter, who proceeds by touches, being able to transform the perception of the light so that it seems to live, to rocket from the vase to illuminate the composition from the inside. The pictorial intention, comes to underline the more "interior" side of certain parts of the decoration, of the objects, in all discretion.
In fact the title establishes a correspondence with Hoffmann's tale, also entitled The Golden Vase, an orphic tale in the vein of the marvelous of a German Romanticism, dear to the photographer. An additional link brings him closer to the surrealist object, the photographed vase, having, moreover, a very singular history, by making it a kind of election due to chance. Certain objects are not neutral in an interior, one recognizes their talismanic significance.
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Pascal Therme, Le Vase d'Or, 45 éléments, Paris,
Pascal Therme

Pascal Therme

France  • 1964

Following his studies in Letters, in 1988, Pascal Therme was associated for his photography in Parisian fashion, alongside the Couturiers and the most prestigious brands. Throughout this period, he pursued a visual creation based on experiences of deconstruction of the image. These experiments apply to all subjects treated by painting, Nudes, Portraits, Landscapes, Architectures, Interiors.

The object is a renewal of the vision and is based on the experience of David Hockney, The Grand Canyon, on the legacy of Cubism through a certain multi-perspective, on the formal legacy of the New Wave of Cinema. His montages, built by numerous photographs, autonomous, sequenced elements recompose a unit, making Image, wish to escape the unique perspective (camera obscura) and decisive time, founding couple of all photography, in a different approach to what makes an image , photography.

His compositions have used several media such as the Polaroid SX70 and its 35mm, then the ektachrome and the 105mm, the 180mm and are placed under the aegis of the Wisdom of Eros, a concept articulating the plastic artist and the man of letters, of being, in an original, even native writing.

Using the montage of these elements, driven by different guiding principles, multiple occurrences, Pascal Therme seeks to reintegrate the Secret Harmony of the Dream (a midsummer night's dream) through the discontinuity of the world, in a broken mirror , then redialed. This discontinuity creates a rhythm, so much so that the montages always seem to renew themselves, to wave, to breathe. A part of the Living seems inscribed there, between Apollo and Dionysos.

These montages are offered here in the form of quality prints, in various sizes.

A fragile beauty, in these precarious balances, has worked. This always experimental work was based on the tempo, the color, the blur and the sharpness, the modulation of the point of view, an interior traveling, different points of view and perspectives, seeking through the territories, to build a Unit, to approach the musical harmony of the dream in its visual correspondences. All an inspired plastic work.

These photographic paintings offer a Poetics of Space and Time recomposed, rediscovered, in dazzling colors.


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