‘Eclats’…translates as glitter, sparkle, brilliance, radiance, and so a good name for this unusual photographic exhibition by a Puyricard-based group.
It’s unusual because they have taken the works of Cézanne and used them as a starting point for abstract photos: for instance, they have isolated the brush-strokes making up the fields around the Ste-Victoire, or the stripes on Madame Cézanne’s skirts, and somehow turned them into abstraction. I really couldn’t work out how they did this – some kind of computer graphics? There was no-one to ask but I did find it intriguing, and it has the happy effect of making you really look at Cézanne’s painterly strokes.
It’s a free exhibition at the Aix Tourist Office and I do recommend it if you like to have fun with photography.
Details: Until November 2nd. Monday to Saturday from 8.30am – 7pm; Sunday and holidays from 10am – 1pm and from 2pm – 6pm
More info here: http://blog-photocontact.vellozzi.com/2014/09/exposition-photografique-eclats/
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