Olivier Maynard
Untitled
2012
Canon digital camera printing
120 × 175 cm
Ed. 1/7
Location: Montpellier, France
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About the artwork
This black-and-white photograph captures a dynamic scene in the canals of Venice. A water cab crosses the waters of the Grand Canal, creating a contrast with the frozen Venetian architecture in the background. The framing emphasizes the perspective of the imposing bridge and the Baroque façade of a church, two emblematic elements of Venetian heritage. A man is at the center of the image, absorbed in his telephone. Olivier Maynard highlights the opposition between the ephemeral and the permanent, and the tension between past and present.
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This work is typical of Olivier Maynard's work, demonstrating both a documentary and aesthetic approach.
About the artist
Olivier Maynard is a French photographer. After graduating from the Beaux arts de Sète in sculpture, it was at stockings that he began to understand volumes, light and composition. In 1992, he graduated from the ETPA photography school in Toulouse and began a career as an advertising, food and corporate photographer. It was only thirty years later that he changed his field of play to devote himself to art. His photos, which sublimate the talents and trades of others, become, by and for themselves, works of art, and now take their place in galleries. Such is the case with his "Color&Food" exhibition, which was shown in his studio in Sète, as well as in a gallery in Luxembourg.
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