It’s a world fully created from photographs through a very long retouching process of images on a computer. As a digital painter, Ruud Van Empel invents a paradise inhabited by children, smooth characters, and “perfect” harmonic crowds. Color has become the substance of this imaginary universe, an essential reflection about the nature of what we look at and see. Whether this universe takes the form of a large leaf or an amazed face, it’s primarily a form of sensual brilliance, like after a strong tropical storm, a kind of experience that only exist through the eyes. It’s a universe without reality that is inside each one of us, or maybe a world that does not exist, but a world that is still there, terribly there and terribly beautiful. Too beautiful, maybe, because it does not exist…
With the support of the Flatland Gallery, Amsterdam.
FESTIVAL
Photo Phnom Penh 2015
From January 31th to February 28th, 2015
Institut français du Cambodge
218 rue 184 – Phnom Penh
Cambodia
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