The Dutch photographer captivates together with his minimalist, elegant, and vaporous monochrome compositions, which flirt with the abstract and the surreal.
Bastiaan Woudt has made a breakthrough on the earth of art and images in simply ten years. With no formal training, the 35-year-old Dutch native discovered on the job and chose to experiment, like a return to the roots of avant-garde photographers, feeding off books, exhibitions, and art festivals. In consequence, his pictures have not failed to attract consideration. He was named New Dutch Photographic Expertise in 2015, has exhibited everywhere in the world, gained several awards, and shortly attracted prestigious gallery house owners. Like Fahey/Klein Gallery in Los Angeles, which he just lately joined to characterize him solely on the West Coast of the USA and from which a primary solo exhibition will comply with in February 2023. Bastiaan Woudt has that recognizable visual type. His emotional portraits, mystical landscapes on the African continent, expedition to the mountains of Nepal, and nudes bathed in an inventive blur seize and transcend this “monochromatic minimalism.”
Reinterpreting the normal
The artist believes that shade solely distracts the viewer. His mastery of black and white thus pays specific attention to detail, enjoying with shapes, textures, mild, and shadows. His signature craftsmanship exudes a poetry of tones and contrasts that invites us “to see solely the essence of his topics.” Bastiaan Woudt attracts his inspiration from surrealism and silver images of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, whereas exploiting the a number of prospects of recent methods. We additionally find influences from Irving Penn and Richard Avedon, which he claims himself. He also carried out editorial commissions for Vogue British, Harper’s Bazaar, New York Journal, Numéro, and l’Officiel. His work and his intuition continuously guide his imagery. “His digital photographs are rooted within the research of conventional 20th-century photographic practices,” Fahey/Klein Gallery points out. “This quest to explore and develop classical imagery has led him down a path of continual discovery, leading to photographic magnificence that surprises and reinforces tradition.”
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Nathalie Dassa
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