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Yves Ullens Like A Painting
, Rasson Art Gallery, 2021 Hardcover 130 pages, . ISBN 9782805206214.
The visual effects of light, color and movement have been at the heart of Yves Ullens?s work for over 20 years. In order to make visible the fleeting moment of optical phenomena, the Belgian artist uses photography and explores visual perception not perceptible to the naked eye. The vibration of colors and lines is the result of the movement of his camera. The energy of this movement is directly captured by the camera and then fixed on the photographic print without further intervention. His artistic vocation was revealed following the unexpected outcome of a photo taken during a stay abroad. An accidental blur awakened his innate sense of abstraction and interested him in the effects of reflections of light. This photograph marked the beginning of his own style, going beyond the conventions and rules of traditional photography. Yves Ullens' abstract photographs are visual experiences linked to color and light. They remind us of the works of one of the Bauhaus masters, L szl Moholy-Nagy, who "used light as a formal primary factor, creating space and movement, and eliminating the central perspective of photography". Painting and photography are in constant dialogue in the work of Yves Ullens. He sees photography like a painter and uses his camera like a brush. He explores a free expression of shapes and colors as the abstract artists of the 20th century did with painting. Colors that the Belgian artist draws from the palette of details in his daily environment.
