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Doors Art Fair 2011


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Artists
Picture
Lobelia wollastonii, 2005, silver gelatin print, mounted on aluminium and framed, 25 x 38cm
Sebastian Schutyser 

In the heart of Africa, on top of the equator, and more than 5,000 meters above sea level, lies an ice-capped massif with a mythical resonance: the Mountains of the Moon. The mind-tickling idea of such a wondrous thing as eternal snow in equatorial Africa, and the sheer inaccessibility of these mountain, have added an air of mystery to the mists and clouds that constantly veil it.
The Rwenzori Mountains are well known for their extravagant plants. At higher elevations, certain species grow unusually large owing to powerful equatorial sunlight at daytime and the chills of snow at night. Combined with wild and jagged landscapes, this ‘botanical big game’ evokes a primaeval atmosphere.
 
​Sebastian Schutyser captures undented, pure nature exquisitely with infrared black and white film. The photographer eradicates the most colors instead puts heavy emphasis on both details and textures of the subject and tries to carry innate beauty of it. Furthermore pure white leaves and dark fog that lost native colors evoke a dream like atmosphere in each print thus create an ethereal universe, an unreal Paradise Lost. Just like the Moon, be seen but not reachable, Schutyser’s ‘Flowers of the Moon’ is too for real yet is hidden and fairly mythological. In addition, using retrospective black and white films as well as a documentary approach to flora of the Mountains of the Moon he points out a rough reality beneath the great Mother Nature: serious environmental issues such as advancing deforestation and global worming that threaten the earth are satirically suggested through breathtakingly beautiful images.
 
Education
1997  Master degree Photography, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Belgium
1991  Master degree Political Sciences, University of Ghent, Belgium
 
Solo Exhibitions
2010  Flowers of the Moon, Gallery SUN Contemporary, Seoul
2009  CC Hasselt, Belgium
2008  Terra 2008, Bamako, Mali
2007  FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
           Gimhae Clayarch Museum, Korea
2005  Zuiderpershuis, Antwerp
            European Parliament, Brussels
2004  BOZAR, Brussels
            Fondazione Mudima, Milano, Italy
2003  Great Mosque of Djenné, Mali
            Rencontres de la photographie Africaine de Bamako, Mali
            Belfry of Bruges, Belgium
            Deutshes Architektur Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2002  Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
2000  Royal Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010   KIAF, COEX, Seoul
2009  Gante-Yuste, various locations in Extremadura, Spain
2008  Sonsbeek, CBK Arnhem, The Netherlands
2006  En français sous l’image, Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France
2005  FotoMuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
2004  Kurzdavordanach, Mediapark Köln, Germany
2003  Belgian Nomads, 51 Fine Art Photography, Antwerp, Belgium
2000  Noorderlicht Photo Festival, The Netherlands
            Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
1998   Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
 
Awards
2007  Grant from the Flemish Government
2006  Grant from the Flemish Government
2004  Laureate “Golden Clover” Belgian Vocation Foundation
2001   Grant from the Flemish Photographic Documentary Foundation
            Support from the Aga Khan Trust for Culture
2000  Nominee ’13 éme Prix National Photographie Ouverte’
            Laureate Prix des Amis de l’UNESCO
1998   Laureate ’12éme Prix National Photographie Ouverte’
1996   Laureate Belgian Vocation Foundation
 
 
Monographic Publications
‘Blauw’, 2002, ‘Documentaire Fotografie Opdrachten Vlaanderen’
‘Les Mosquées En Terre Du Mali’, 2002, Maison Européenne de la Photographie
‘Lehmmoscheen in Mali’, 2003m Junius Verkag
‘Banco, Adobe Mosques of the Inner Niger Delta’, 2003, 5 Continents Editions
‘Flowers of the Moon, Afroalpine vegetation of the Rwenzori Mountains’, 2007, 5 Continents editions
 
Collections
Royal Africa Museum, Tervuren, Belgium
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture, Geneva, Switzerland
La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
FotoMuseum, Antwerpen, Belgium
Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Fundacion Yuste, Spain
Gimhae Clayarch Museum, Korea
SNU Boramae Medical Center, Korea

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