The Glider - H0282 Photograph

ABOUT THE GILDER -H ------------------------------------------------------------- The Gilder is a part of the collection White Light District made in 2014 by the photograph Idan Wizen. ABOUT THE WHITE LIGHT DISTRICT COLLECTION ------------------------------------------------------------- In a very sleek style, worthy of a large New York loft, the White Light District series is the opposite of the well known images of the "Red Light District" prominent in different cities in Europe, which combine nudity with vulgarity, prostitution or depraved world of the night. The anonymous is certainly naked, but magnified and angelized by a white light synonymous with purity of holiness. The White light district belong to the project "Who's that nude in my living room?". ABOUT THE PROJECT "WHO'S THAT NUDE IN THE LIVING ROOM ?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Showing humanity as it is, in its most natural state, its nudity and diversity.That's the art project of Idan Wizen started in 2009. Since, he photographed more than 1600 differents persons, as you and me. By their diversity and their nature, their dynamism and their naturalness, the work of Idan Wizen underline the universal human beauty, well beyond the sociocultural and aesthetic constraints and criteria of our time. Whoever poses in his simplest clothe participates by his own personality, its differences and its features, freely expressed in the photo, to the universality of the human kind. To the standardization of the criteria of beauty of our society and its modes of expression, the artist opposes the multitude, the variety, the force of character, the movement, the surprising and the natural one to the state of the human kind. A WORD FROM THE ARTIST ------------------------------------------------------------- I’m creating strong and striking images for one purpose : I want my images to provoke thought and discussion. I want the viewer to question himself, question his certainties, learn to see things differently. Pondering two levels: the individual and societal. At the individual level, I want my work to take the viewer on a journey to think about the constraints their minds self-impose, of acceptance of their body, or to help find the beauty in all shapes, sizes, and flaws. At the societal level, my reflections turn to the choices we will have to make tomorrow: our morals, our environment, our responsibility towards future generations, our relationship to science, to the transformation of homo sapiens into a new species… These images come from a wide inspiration, mainly from writings, such as those of Bernard Werber or Yuval Noah Harari, but also great photographers like David Lachapelle or Jill Greenberg. Not to mention, of course, my pop culture, ranging from Marvel to Tolkien through the Rock and Metal music of the 70s and 80s. Combining strong ideas with the relevant aesthetic of an image seems to me easier than writing a political or philosophical piece. Art allows us to send a more subtle message, a message that will be interpreted differently depending on the viewer. By using in my art, the subtlety and multi-interpretation of the message, I want to make the viewers’ ideas into perspective their vision of things and thus, to understand mine. I want to caress the unconscious and thus becoming the seed that will germinate over time allowing an evolution of ideas. Most artists have very radical opinions on their topic. I tend to believe that most of our daily challenges and problems are complicated involving a complex and subtle solution. I’d like to think about the faces of the coin. Isn’t it funny for a 2D artist? For now, it’s in photography that I found the most comfortable way to express myself. But I’m starting to think about sculpture and video in order to express more easily the permanent, rage and hope, cohabitating inside me. My rage is coming from the contemplation of a world seeming to turn in the wrong direction! I always feel repulsed and angered at many things.I feel anger towards the state of the world. I feel beaten down at people’s stupidity, violence and hypocrisy. I feel thunderstruck at the fear of progress and science. And I also truly believe that our world is better now than it has ever been. I’m amazed by some beautiful minds, by the creativity and intelligence of the human kind. So it’s in the human kind that I put my hope and my expectations for tomorrow ! TECHNICAL INFORMATION ---------------------------------------------- Original C-print on FUJI Paper signed and number on the recto by the artist. Edition of 4. Each print is unique on it's size. Print offered here : 60 x 90cm mounted on Dibond. The print is coming with a Hahnemühle certificate of authenticity.