Le Chant du Cygne, Heros, 2017
Andréa Olga Mantovani

Photography : archival pigment print

50 x 60 x 0.1 cm 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch

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50 x 60 x 0.1 cm 19.7 x 23.6 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Beige oak frame

Artwork dimensions including frame

52 x 62 x 2 cm 20.5 x 24.4 x 0.8 inch


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Artwork location: France

Heros, The Swan Song Series, 2017
Pigment print on 310 gm matte Rag paper.
Numbered edition: 2/7
signed on the back

"Enter the forest ...
Somewhere far from the tumult of men, in the plains of eastern Poland, she gazes at the borders of Belarus.
Enter the largest and oldest forest in Europe, cut off from time, a mysterious, magical and fascinating space that the fury of men and their modern spells had spared until then.
It's early 2017 and she's shuddering. In recent weeks, it has been the scene of the most important environmental conflict in Europe.
Places once protected by Polish law, the European Union and UNESCO are threatened with destruction.
To my right, the Ministry of the Environment, which is waging a massive deforestation campaign advancing the outbreak of the spruce bark beetle and its possible devastation over a large part of the territory.
To my left are the environmentalists who fear the inevitable loss of naturalness that has been expressed here for thousands of years. Nonetheless, the charges are more complicated than they appear.
At the heart of this "last primary forest" two visions of the world are opposed: that of the former communist countries, traditional, conservative and that of liberal democracy, citizen, ecological and hyperconnected.
Enter the forest, breathe in its singular beauty, feel its strength and fragility.
I hope you will find there, as I have found it at the turn of its majestic meanders and then in contact with the heterogeneous humanity that inhabits it, the essential questions on this ambivalent link between man and nature, on the meaning of word disobedience. Questions and maybe a few premises for answers. "

A geographer by training, Andrea Olga Mantovani (* 1985, lives and works in Paris) has worked for 6 years in Europe on environmental issues of essential testimony, since 2015 she has devoted herself to photography in a professional manner. Alternating between personal projects and commission work for the press, she became a correspondent for the New York Times in Europe.
His personal work today focuses on the protection of natural forests in Eastern Europe, using photography as a militant artistic act. In her approach, the photographer alternates landscape images celebrating the strength and beauty of unchanging nature and more allegorical photographs. It refers to the complexity of the environmental crisis and metaphorically evokes certain aspects of the environmental challenges of our society.

She won the Emerging Talent Prize at the Festival de la Gacilly 2018, the Obs Prize "Les Femmes S’Exposent" "and the Focale Prize for her work on the Bialowieza forest. She opens a new photographic opus in the forest massif of the Carpathians in Ukraine, in the grip of deforestation, with the support of the National Commission of Plastic Arts.
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Andréa Olga Mantovani, Le Chant du Cygne, Heros
France  • 1985

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A geographer by training, Andrea Olga Mantovani (born in 1985, lives and works in Paris) worked for 6 years in Europe on environmental and social issues. Seeing in the image an indispensable instrument of testimony, she devoted herself to photography professionally in 2015 and then joined the Hans Lucas studio. She has since devoted herself to long-term projects alternating between commissioned work for the New York Times and personal projects.

His personal work today focuses on the protection of natural forests in Eastern Europe, using photography as a militant artistic act. In her approach, the photographer alternates landscape images celebrating the strength and beauty of an unchanging nature and more allegorical photographs. It refers to the complexity of the environmental crisis and metaphorically evokes certain aspects of the environmental challenges of our society.

She is the winner of the Emerging Talent Prize of the Festival de la Gacilly 2018, the Obs Prize "Les Femmes S'Exposent" and the Focale Prize for her work on the Bialowieza forest. She opens a new photographic opus in the forest massif of the Carpathians in Ukraine, in the grip of deforestation, with the support of the National Commission of Plastic Arts.

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