L'Art en Vigne : Thibault de Puyfontaine

Following on from ESPY, Thibault de Puyfontaine is one of several artists exhibiting in France at L'Art en Vigne...


From 7 to 9 June 2014, contemporary art comes to life in the vineyards around a greedy and sensitive walk.
The Art Vine invites you to a sensory experience of taste and contemplative pleasure merge.

So for the 6th edition of Art in Grapevine, wineries north of Aix become "art spaces to live" and expose artists in places usually closed to the public: the vaults, cellars, and also outside around the vineyards.

This year, the Château La Glassware south of the Luberon, the Château Val Joanis in Pertuis and Castle Vignelaure 400 m altitude at the foot of the Sainte Victoire mountain, delight the taste buds of visitors: the wine Château Glassware Rosé 2013 bio is a spicy and lively wine on blood orange with a free key on the white pepper,the Red Cherry Val Joanis 2009 Castle reasoned culture is a powerful wine red dress adorned with a purple, shiny and clear, the Red Castle in 2009 Vignelaure conversion offer with a dominant Cabernet Sauvignon structure and elegance and excellent aging potential.

Become Rendez - you art lovers ... and wine; Art in Grapevine, boosted by a labeled MP2013 year 2014 reveals the CRU ARTY, artists to know absolutely, right now, with good aging potential!

You will discover works - photos, paintings, sculptures - and also meet the artists, some already known, others to discover urgently, all followed by regional or international Parisian art galleries.

Thibault de Puyfontaine

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Tomasz Fall

"The placebo documentary is a personal concept which takes its name from the medical jargon. It's supposed to provide the viewer the same artistic experience that classic and contemporary documentary but without the use of harmful agents. Its research is mainly centered on the photographic representation of the real. It has its origins in the issues raised by the French realist painting and identifies itself ideologically with documentary photography. It nevertheless differs from the latter favoring a more allegorical approach to social facts, minimizing the importance of a particular phenomenon to focus on a broader and transhistorical reading of topics. The placebo documentary advocates the total staged photography, enlightened that all visual production comes from an artificial construction. It takes shapes in aesthetically independent photographic paintings (tableaux) of large format. Thereby, it distances itself from the overproduction of memory-images, deliberately abandoning the contemporary dynamics of serial work. It's firmly positioned against a part of contemporary photography (and art) made for the viewer, thought to seduce him and who forgets the art's prerogatives."

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Featured Photographer: Justine Sawicz

As well as featuring photographers from ESPY 2014, we will also be celebrating emerging photographers from all over the world. Justine Sawicz is our first, born in Canada and studying in Carmarthen, we are all big fans of her work and very excited to see her progress...

"Up until February 2014, I had never taken a photography class before in my life. Within a semester abroad to study art at Colleg Sir Gar in Carmarthen, Wales, I had gone from complete photographic ignorance to a greater understanding, appreciation and affinity to the medium.

My fascination with photography had been more of a tinkering effort to take good photos. It had been easy for me to gravitate to the camera and take "good" photos. But, I found my true calling with film photography when I tried it here in Wales. More specifically, I taught myself how to double expose on film and have made this my signature effect in this book. It is the unpredictability, surprise and challenge of taking double exposures that fuels my passion for it. All these photographs have been solely on 35 mm film. They include pictures of my friends that I have met during my exchange in Wales, self-portraits, nature, architecture and anything I've found to be unexplainably inspiring during my travels. I hope that they capture my fascination with the mystical spirit of the nature in Wales, the haunting and gothic beauty that I see in the landscape, ridden with legends, stories, and history as well as the beauty I find in the crippled, shrivelled, decayed, dying, resurrected, blossoming, and the impermanence of life.

I try to maintain a natural quality to my photographs, using only natural lighting for every image without any post-editing besides photo cropping and lightening the exposure.

Below are some photos I've included in a series called, Theomorphic (literally meaning being formed in the likeness or image of God), I am commenting on the fact that I create my life the same way I create these images, metaphorically speaking. The beauty that I create in my photographs, is the same beauty I can create in my life with my thoughts, actions and decisions.

It is coming to Wales to study art that has brought me to produce these photos. But it is coming to Wales that has also brought me to produce innumerable experiences, life long friends and memories that I will cherish and remember for a many lifetimes. I believe that my external world is God. I see God, the Universe, however you refer to it, in everyday life. In everything I see. Particularly in people, nature and our creations. And this is how I find the respect and beauty in life and approach it with a liveliness, vivaciousness and childish excitement every day."