Much of his work is rooted in Belgian culture and offers thought on the city of Brussels.
These images capture the suburban light of the capital in which he imagines scenes tinged with surrealism. In the heart of the capital of variable geometry and set with concrete, the human condition seems more fragile to the point of tipping into absurd situations.
Other photographs show the author’s interest in antique painting.
Like those scenes in which several periods and genres seem to rub shoulders. In the same work, we find classical compositions in the Van Eyck style in which are inscribed still lifes of flowers referring to the Flemish painter of the eighteenth century: Jan Van Dael.
But, this artistic journey does not stop there and Geert de Taeye has fun slipping in these scenes savory details coming from our modernity like in the work “Stung by a Bee”, re-interpretation of a Virgin with the Child in which we discover a boy, dressed with laces with Nike tennis shoes, being cared for by a botticellian Madonna with a plaster.
Geert de Taeye plays subtly with temporal and spatial shifts of the duality of the sacred and the profane. His perfectly mastered photographs, with a classical aesthetic, jostle the codes with a touch of humor (Belgian) and this, for our greatest pleasure.
Geert de Taeye, Surrealism in photography
January 26 – March 23, 2019
Goutal Gallery
3ter Fernand Dol Street
13100 Aix-en Provence
www.galerie-goutal.com
