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Argentina
Photography, digital on Paper
Size: 35.4 W x 23.6 H x 0 D in
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Limited edition custom made print. 4/12 Giclée on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Satin paper. 310 gsm. 100% Cotton . white . satin-finish Printed with 2cm white border. A special advantage is its extreme longevity. The aging resistance is due to pure, acid-free paper, which does not require any optical brighteners or other additives used in papers. The paper does not yellow, the prints remain beautiful under normal conditions for a lifetime. Comes with signed & numbered certificate of authenticity, to be affixed to the back when framed. Production time is 5-7 working days. Special requests, such as a white, black or colored border around the photo or if you prefer the photo without a border, can of course be honored. Make your wishes known through a mail/message and I upload the custom print. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Huye con velocidad y desaparece from the "Aguas de Montaña" series On earth molding forces Text by Roma Bernardele In his essay on the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime, Kant introduces the idea that the sublime is a combination of disgust and pleasure, and he sets it apart from beauty. While the quiet pleasure of beauty is calming, the sublime produces pleasure combined with terror, it creates tension. While beauty delights, the sublime moves. The sublime must always be great, Kant says, “a great height is just as sublime as a great depth.” Her obsession with water and winter takes Ángeles to the mountain range, where she dares to search for the sublime. She distances herself from the beautiful Patagonian postcards, where valleys filled with flowers lie among lakes and snowy mountain peaks, to find a more somber, more immense beauty, which reveals thundering, stormy forces greater than Man. Her work is based on a thorough observation of the water element, it follows its path and its different states. This is what moves Ángeles to go on long walks through the vast Patagonian ice fields and glaciers. Out in the mountain, she walks and walks, sometimes for several kilometers, through glacier paths, inside caves, alone with her equipment, in search of these encounters with cascades, ice blocks gifted to us by nature, but who knows for how long, or a rock that might fall at any second. At this instant, when the fleeting and the eternal cross paths, is when Ángeles snaps her pictures. Pictures which are instinctively taken to tell the tale that the land narrates through its molding forces. A fundamental difference between the beautiful and the sublime lies in the presence or absence of shape. Beauty can be found in the shape of an object, whereas the sublime “appears in shapeless objects.” This absence of shape is clearly depicted in Ángeles’ work. Her photographs have no reference points, as she flirts with scales, the shape or size of her objects are unknown. She misleads spectators with the similarities of water in its different states. The outline of a mountain resembles the shape of a wave, a cascade could be a storm. Darkness, nostalgia, more nostalgia, melancholy, paradise lost, a resistance to change. An undercurrent of romantic ideas runs through Ángeles’ work, manifesting a deep fear coming from the bottom of the universe, which is knowing that what has always been will eventually disappear
Photography:digital on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:35.4 W x 23.6 H x 0 D in
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Argentina
Ángeles Peña is a photographer from Argentina, based in Bariloche. The intimacy of the relationships between photography as a documentary resource, and landscape as poetry, is what drives her to inquire and create. Using images that deploy a strong discursive power, the artist seeks to transmit a growing concern for the effects of climate change and the consequences that it brings to the environment. Raised in Patagonia amid snowy forests, savage rivers and deep lakes had a profound impact on her photographic work, that is centered in cultivating an inexhaustible admiration for natural landscapes. Ángeles selects water out of the four elements as protagonist, since it’s here where she finds most evidence of these vertiginous changes. “I don’t photograph a landscape, but all of what happens in it. The path, the road taken in its interior. I try to speak from within the landscape, not from a distance.”
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