Honorable Mention
Colorful Darknesses - Nature
DESCRIPTION
Colorful Darknesses is a photographic series where I plunge a subject into darkness and I reveal it by colorful light installations.The work of composition, which mixes the treatment of the subject, the play of colors, shadows and lights propose other intentionality to the public. Shapes can be precise or reduced to linear expressions, bordering on abstraction. These unreal forms ask the observer a particular application so that, little by little, by the imagination and the attention of the glance, the subject is revealed.
This different artistic orientation takes me away from the usual clichés and stereotypes associated with photography, prevents me from falling into a too raw natural and brings an inventive originality.
My work is the result of the eye of the photographer: I imagine the final result that I want to obtain and, for that, I move the model, the set of lights, and I search the best photographic composition. I do not add lighting in post-production.
Through my unique approach that shows this subject, at first glance banal, in a new and different perspective, the change of the spectator’s gaze can continue.
Thanks to modern techniques and my singular artistic approach, I propose a new and surprising direction to photography where graphics, aesthetics and voluptuousness combine to offer a dreamlike and surprising vision.
AUTHOR
Guillaume du Mesgnil d'Engente did not have his way traced. He first turned to a training in sales. His well-affirmed taste for the artistic universe, he discovered, in this period, the world of Applied Arts.He practiced his profession of salesman for several years and then decided to resume his studies in the field that enthusiasm: Graphic Design.
At that time, he began to develop his photographic activity as an autodidact; this leisure activity becomes for him a real passion.
His technical requirement, which borders on meticulousness, serves his particular artistic sensibility. Always keeping an eye on the creative world, he multiplies his sources of inspiration: the femininity, the body, the nature, the urban landscapes, the texture of the objects. In his works, the play of light and shadow, the treatment of color and black become his hallmark.
Guillaume du Mesgnil d’Engente is an active contemplative who likes to observe his subject to mature his eyes and reflect on different artistic and technical possibilities.
In 2017, for the first time, he presented his works to critics and won the contest organized by the first French photography magazine Focus Numérique in partnership with Datacolor.
That same year, his work was again rewarded and he won the Public Prize at the Seventh Artistic Nude Meetings in Villeréal, France.
Sharing with the public continues in 2018, he was one of the artists selected for the International Salon of Contemporary Art in Marseille, France, that took place in the last spring.
In 2018, he continues his work on light and uses nature as the main subject: this new project quickly receives a reward. Guillaume is the winner who will represent France at the next international EISA Maestro competition which will take place in Berlin next August.
