{"id":28102,"date":"2023-05-10T13:44:16","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T11:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/?p=28102"},"modified":"2024-05-27T15:39:07","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T13:39:07","slug":"olivier-valsecchi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urbanphotoawards.com\/en\/olivier-valsecchi\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivier Valsecchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Born in 1979 in Paris, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Olivier Valsecch<\/strong>i uses photography as a medium to incarnate the emotions of his <strong>psych\u00e9<\/strong>. Directing nude models <strong>like a conductor<\/strong>, he orchestrates fantasmagorical images where bodies, outlined in dramatic chiaroscuro, are deprived of gender or identity to be merely used as elements of a <strong>narrative<\/strong>. His first series &#8220;<strong>Dust<\/strong>&#8221; (2009) earned him <strong>international acclaim<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><strong>Hasselblad Masters Award<\/strong> &#8211; Fine Art category in 2012 as well as <strong>many exhibitions around the world<\/strong>. His next series <strong>Klecksography<\/strong> (2012) and <strong>Drifting<\/strong> (2014) confirmed a sophisticated <strong>sense of light<\/strong> and a particular mix of <strong>aesthetics<\/strong>, <strong>bizarre<\/strong> and <strong>emotion<\/strong>. Over the years, Valsecchi has developed a unique and soulful take on the human form and is now considered <strong>one of the most notable new representatives of contemporary nude photography<\/strong>. The beauty and expressiveness of the human body is magnetic in his mystical and spiritual compositions. His works center around the themes of cycles, birth, death, rebirth.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"><b>BlackDust (2022)<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> is a three years long project reinvestigating the theme of Incarnation and life cycles, dear to Valsecchi. While highlighting the artist\u2019s photographic mastery through near-to monochromatic images, Black Dust is the final chapter to Valsecchi\u2019s \u201c<strong>I am Dust<\/strong>\u201d saga. While \u201c<strong>Dust<\/strong>\u201d illustrated the birth of the photographer\u2019s cosmology, \u201c<strong>Time of War<\/strong>\u201d liberated these chaos-spawned creatures by infusing them with a soul and a purpose: a battle to fight. Replacing the primeval ash, this very element which has transiently crossed through the cycles of life and death, by charcoal powder, Valsecchi crafted an innovative and powerful series. Stained by the epic tales\u2019 darkness and violence, the bursting energy of his Ovidian heroes remains resilient until the final chapter.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, serif;\"><span lang=\"en-US\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oliviervalsecchi.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">www.oliviervalsecchi.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1979 in Paris, Olivier Valsecchi uses photography as a medium to incarnate the emotions of his psych\u00e9. 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