LUX EX TENEBRIS - N° 3 / 3 Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

« LUX EX TENEBRIS » - Birdy Tg - 2015 Edition print limited to 3 + 2 Artist Prooves 250x120cm - Hahnemuhle Fine Art Baryta on Aluminium Plate - Framed in black wood shadow box (258x128cm) Many close-up on the numerous details can been seen on Birdy Tg Website: Carrying on the philosophical parallel he establishes between the Dante Alighieri ‘s « Divine Comedy » and Fashion World, Birdy Tg offers here the next instalment of his famous visual serial: « In the Garden of God and the Devil ». Following the course of his Novel of the same title, which will edited in 2016, Birdy Tg now tells about "the Exit from Hell and the arrival on the Purgatory beaches" of his “Modern Dante”, the young fashion model Azif Wekare. Birdy Tg pays a personal tribute to the Fashion House GIVENCHY and its famous designer, Mr Riccardo Tisci who designed each of the garments, accessories and jewelleries worn by the characters into this new artwork. Each of the designer’s codes has been respected as closed as possible but is, of course, artistically reinterpreted and staged by the Author. All collections from the first Riccardo Tisci ever designed for Givenchy are illustrated into this artwork. Birdy Tg points out that this artwork is from his own and totally free artistic expression which, only engages himself. This artwork does not proceed from any kind of demand, order, or even sponsorship from the Fashion House Givenchy and/or Mr Riccardo Tisci. As usual in Birdy Tg’s art, “LUX EX TENEBRIS” is an encoded and argued work which requires a mindful deciphering, considering the multitude of clues hidden even in the smallest details by the Author, to unravel one by one all the threads of the plot and to comprehend the philosophy behind this contemporary tale. Critics have stated Birdy Tg’s style as “ lyrical, poetic, oneiric, allegorical and romantic…” (Ref: Hans Herrmann, German Art Critic, 2014), “true visual poetry; original, strong and powerful art, treated as freeze cinematographic frames; oneiric, baroque and surrealist frescoes, in a luministic and metaphorical manner…” (Ref: Nathalie Becker: Luxembourger Art Critic, 2014) or again “can be described as Diegetic and Lyrical Conceptual Art…” (Ref: Eric Vivier, French Art Critic and Visual Art Lecturer, 2015). Birdy Tg has produced here his more complex work to date in a large fresco in mixed technic, 250x120cm in native format, 300dpi, 16 Bits, 50 Gigabytes that required over 6 months of restless work and includes over 2200 individual photographs and hundreds of painting, drawing and Digital art parts by the artist. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, or even to be born, is purely coincidental and beyond the Author’s will, all the characters being totally fictitious. « IN THE GARDEN OF GOD AND THE DEVIL » “In the Garden of God and the Devil” is the name of my last Concept which I am presently working on and will consecrate 3 full years to it. This is also the title of my new Novel and Musical Suite that will be out in 2016. The whole concept is a philosophical parallel between the “Divine Comedy” by Dante Alighieri and the “Fashion World”. At first glance, the comparison or the confrontation between those two universes, which seem to be so different, could be at least surprising, maybe even chocking, but with a bit more of attention, the real surprise is how they can be similar. “In the Garden of God and the Devil” is, of course, a tribute to the great Master of Italian Literature and the French painter and illustrator Gustave Doré but also to the most famous fashion designers of the 20th and 21st centuries: Yves Saint Laurent, Alexander McQueen, John Galliano, Riccardo Tisci, Jean-Paul Gaultier, etc… whose, for quite a large number of them, life and destiny have often difficult if not tragic. This also a tribute to all the anonymous people sacrificed by this coruscating but fierce world. Taking place over 7 centuries, the action begins like a nervous thriller for a long and difficult quest across an infernal world of illusions, collusions, compromises, corruptions, perversions and sufferings… Voyage with no return down into the deepest darkness of Hell or luminous and oneiric initiatory crusade to the Promised Land and the Eternal Glory? Is Fashion only the symptomatic reflection of a whole society mired into an engaged process of total decadence or, “only”, the dramaturgy of a desperate attempt for reaching the ultimate “Chef d’Oeuvre” (Masterpiece) by the accomplishment of the sacred knowledge into the Icarian tragedy? Birdy Tg ©2015 For more explanations on the artwork or on the author, please look at the profile section of the artist: Photographer, painter, sculptor, writer, music composer, Birdy Tg is a multimedia artist. For him, nothing is definitively compartmentalized in Art. Birdy Tg wants to feel totally free inside of his artistic expression, with no genre limitation, and that’s why he prefers to speak about Visual Art better than Photography as he often gladly mixes painting, drawing and photography all together into his art...