Fri January 18, 2019
Pop Up Art Exhibition by François L'Hotel
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Art Attack SF, in partnership with Daylighted, is proud to present a pop-up exhibition featuring new work by François L’Hotel next door to the gallery at 2352 Market Street! Join us on Friday, January 18th from 6-9pm for the Opening Reception.
Presenting Day One Selected Pictures
The Day One series that is on show has fed on dust, fragments, « murder scenes », geometric constructions and a few glimmers of magic spells and enchantments."Day One" is a meditative experience where I study the zone of abstraction that exists between imaginary, symbolic and reality. To me, the photographic game is a hunt, and that hunt is all about instinct. In that game, I proceed intuitively, giving a free reign to the lens. Isn’t the artist ultimately rooted in the present time, by means of his body ? Isn’t the creative act a reward for both extreme attention and absolute availability to reality ?
It is this psycho-emotional approach to the contradiction between attention and withdrawal, which may be counterproductive, that I am experimenting for the first time in this new series of 24 photos ...
About the Artist:
Born in Paris, François L’Hotel studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris, a course of studies which he describes as both
academic and subjective. The son of a garage owner, he will always maintain a keen interest in « celestial mechanics » - his experiments will successfully result in many inventions in the industrial field which he rejects by distilling its objective approach.
In the meantime, he learns a vocabulary of his own by capillary action and redefines the codes of the image. By returning to the photographic surface he likes so much, he creates his pieces with intense sensitivity so as to trigger the introspection necessary for contemplating the abstract.
François L’Hotel’s photographs deny up to the presence of the image itself and endow the matter with an immaterial substance that attracts the viewers and incites them to question the issue of detection, to read and interpret the image in a haste that allows the eye to evade control.
The pictorial dimension of his work stems from his training as a painter.
François L’Hotel’s language is undeniably that of poetic emotion which he assigns to his photographic worlds by transfering the absolute purity of austere aesthetics to the image.
https://www.francoislhotel.com
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Presenting Day One Selected Pictures
The Day One series that is on show has fed on dust, fragments, « murder scenes », geometric constructions and a few glimmers of magic spells and enchantments."Day One" is a meditative experience where I study the zone of abstraction that exists between imaginary, symbolic and reality. To me, the photographic game is a hunt, and that hunt is all about instinct. In that game, I proceed intuitively, giving a free reign to the lens. Isn’t the artist ultimately rooted in the present time, by means of his body ? Isn’t the creative act a reward for both extreme attention and absolute availability to reality ?
It is this psycho-emotional approach to the contradiction between attention and withdrawal, which may be counterproductive, that I am experimenting for the first time in this new series of 24 photos ...
About the Artist:
Born in Paris, François L’Hotel studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris, a course of studies which he describes as both
academic and subjective. The son of a garage owner, he will always maintain a keen interest in « celestial mechanics » - his experiments will successfully result in many inventions in the industrial field which he rejects by distilling its objective approach.
In the meantime, he learns a vocabulary of his own by capillary action and redefines the codes of the image. By returning to the photographic surface he likes so much, he creates his pieces with intense sensitivity so as to trigger the introspection necessary for contemplating the abstract.
François L’Hotel’s photographs deny up to the presence of the image itself and endow the matter with an immaterial substance that attracts the viewers and incites them to question the issue of detection, to read and interpret the image in a haste that allows the eye to evade control.
The pictorial dimension of his work stems from his training as a painter.
François L’Hotel’s language is undeniably that of poetic emotion which he assigns to his photographic worlds by transfering the absolute purity of austere aesthetics to the image.
https://www.francoislhotel.com
Art Attack SF, in partnership with Daylighted, is proud to present a pop-up exhibition featuring new work by François L’Hotel next door to the gallery at 2352 Market Street! Join us on Friday, January 18th from 6-9pm for the Opening Reception.
Presenting Day One Selected Pictures
The Day One series that is on show has fed on dust, fragments, « murder scenes », geometric constructions and a few glimmers of magic spells and enchantments."Day One" is a meditative experience where I study the zone of abstraction that exists between imaginary, symbolic and reality. To me, the photographic game is a hunt, and that hunt is all about instinct. In that game, I proceed intuitively, giving a free reign to the lens. Isn’t the artist ultimately rooted in the present time, by means of his body ? Isn’t the creative act a reward for both extreme attention and absolute availability to reality ?
It is this psycho-emotional approach to the contradiction between attention and withdrawal, which may be counterproductive, that I am experimenting for the first time in this new series of 24 photos ...
About the Artist:
Born in Paris, François L’Hotel studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris, a course of studies which he describes as both
academic and subjective. The son of a garage owner, he will always maintain a keen interest in « celestial mechanics » - his experiments will successfully result in many inventions in the industrial field which he rejects by distilling its objective approach.
In the meantime, he learns a vocabulary of his own by capillary action and redefines the codes of the image. By returning to the photographic surface he likes so much, he creates his pieces with intense sensitivity so as to trigger the introspection necessary for contemplating the abstract.
François L’Hotel’s photographs deny up to the presence of the image itself and endow the matter with an immaterial substance that attracts the viewers and incites them to question the issue of detection, to read and interpret the image in a haste that allows the eye to evade control.
The pictorial dimension of his work stems from his training as a painter.
François L’Hotel’s language is undeniably that of poetic emotion which he assigns to his photographic worlds by transfering the absolute purity of austere aesthetics to the image.
https://www.francoislhotel.com
read more
Presenting Day One Selected Pictures
The Day One series that is on show has fed on dust, fragments, « murder scenes », geometric constructions and a few glimmers of magic spells and enchantments."Day One" is a meditative experience where I study the zone of abstraction that exists between imaginary, symbolic and reality. To me, the photographic game is a hunt, and that hunt is all about instinct. In that game, I proceed intuitively, giving a free reign to the lens. Isn’t the artist ultimately rooted in the present time, by means of his body ? Isn’t the creative act a reward for both extreme attention and absolute availability to reality ?
It is this psycho-emotional approach to the contradiction between attention and withdrawal, which may be counterproductive, that I am experimenting for the first time in this new series of 24 photos ...
About the Artist:
Born in Paris, François L’Hotel studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris, a course of studies which he describes as both
academic and subjective. The son of a garage owner, he will always maintain a keen interest in « celestial mechanics » - his experiments will successfully result in many inventions in the industrial field which he rejects by distilling its objective approach.
In the meantime, he learns a vocabulary of his own by capillary action and redefines the codes of the image. By returning to the photographic surface he likes so much, he creates his pieces with intense sensitivity so as to trigger the introspection necessary for contemplating the abstract.
François L’Hotel’s photographs deny up to the presence of the image itself and endow the matter with an immaterial substance that attracts the viewers and incites them to question the issue of detection, to read and interpret the image in a haste that allows the eye to evade control.
The pictorial dimension of his work stems from his training as a painter.
François L’Hotel’s language is undeniably that of poetic emotion which he assigns to his photographic worlds by transfering the absolute purity of austere aesthetics to the image.
https://www.francoislhotel.com
show less
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