Twelve years after their exhibition at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Clark et Pougnaud return with a series of photographs inspired by the paintings of Vilhelm Hammershoi, presented in a setting with Scandinavian undertones.
This series offers a highly personal reinterpretation of the art of Vilhelm Hammershoi, a Danish painter working at the end of the 19th century and into the 20th. Considered a master of Danish painting, he constructed, using a concise palette, a stripped-down and silent interior world.
The characters in his works are often seen from behind, deep in meditation, frozen in stillness. Doors are left open, the walls are bare. Nothing can be seen through the windows as rays of light pour through them.
For their series Lost in Meditation, Clark et Pougnaud employed a chromatic unity. All of the interiors are blue-gray. The only shades of color come from the furniture. For these photographs the duo used, before they disappeared, the last rolls of Kodak Ektachrome film to transcribe the cold bluish light of Northern Europe. These two artists, a couple in life, have developed a style with strong pictorial undertones that blends ingenuity, children’s dream, colorful realism, mystery and humor.
Read the full text of this article on the French version of Le Journal.
Lost in Meditation – Clark et Pougnaud
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