Mikael Lafontan

"Le Marais de Carélie, Finlande", photography by Mikael Lafontan (48x60in), 2016

2018

"Baïkal 10", photograph by Mikael Lafontan. Mikael Lafontan is a French-Swedish artist, born in 1968. He has been living and working in Paris for 20 years. Most of Mikael Lafontan's...

"Baïkal 13", photograph by Mikael Lafontan. Mikael Lafontan is a French-Swedish artist, born in 1968. He has been living and working in Paris for 20 years. Most of Mikael Lafontan's...

Archival pigment print Signed and numbered on label, verso 24.8 x 29.5 inches (Edition of 5) 45.7 x 54.3 inches (Edition of 5) 58.7 x 70.9 inches (Edition of 2) This artwork is ...

Patrick Beaulieu’s most recent project Révélations uses installation and digital prints to explore how artistic manipulation can create shifts in one’s expectations of the visual experience. Beaulieu clearly acknowledges his artistic presence in the work through mechanical and digital manipulation of the objects and images he presents. He becomes more than a passive observer and recorder of his physical world; the alteration of conventional photographs implants his voice and vision into the work. This approach directly addresses and contrasts artistic practices which seek to conceal the artist’s hand. His method diverges from those that attempt to present an uninterrupted and uncontaminated record, such as some documentary and straight photography. In using these stylized techniques, Beaulieu makes a palpable proclamation regarding the subjective and flexible condition of images. In Révélations, images of trees, moss, leaves and other natural objects are presented in strict colour schemes of muted grays, browns and greens. Though these colours are familiar components of the natural world that we experience in day-to-day life and in photographs of nature...