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Behind Planck Wall
Size 75 x 100 cm
Material: Archival Pigment Printing
Date of Production: 2015
Images Created: 06
Behind Planck Wall all the love that we could give was kept, all the passions and all the discontent, no order, no time, no judgement. All of the wars and all of the reconciliations; all at the same moment.
Heartrending passion and tedium; all lives lead in one, the hot and the cold, the warm embraces and the disdain, the hand that moves over the body and the skin that breathes no more.
Behind Planck Wall rests all that we can and all that we can't even imagine. Where truth is absolute but contains all the emotions and all desire. Behind Planck Wall fits everything that has passed and all of what is to come, so much in so little, like how a kiss can encompass all the love that, one day, we will live.
Morpho
Size 60 x 90 cm
Material: Archival Pigment Printing
Date of Production: 2016
Images Created: 11
A Morpho's is a being made of love. A Morpho knows not where their own body ends and their lover's begins, if their thoughts belong to them or to whom they love. Their pain is a pain felt by the other. A Morpho doesn't know if a gentle touch is by their lover's hands or of their own. A Morpho is made of love, tolerance, passion and much respect for life. To be a Morpho should be the aspiration of every human being.
Backdraft Sight
Size 30 x 50 cm
Material: Archival Pigment Printing
Date of Production: 2015
Images Created: 05
In this work, the naked body in front of the photographer's lens acquires a new role. One that subverts and is predictable. Instantaneously, a new narrative enters the scene: the observer becomes the muse of each one of the images and the model becomes the spectator of their own observers.
With this idea, the photographer proposes an inversion of the direction of sight. The public is presented with a photo, stops being a by stander and transforms into their own protagonist; an observed object through the newly seeing eyes of the model.
A subject's shift in position between work and spectator acts as if they were in front of a mirror. A mirror which image reflects not the nudity of the muse, but our own nudity.
This provocative and challenging sight has the power to leave us freer to seek responses to the fundamental questions that preside within all of us.
LITTLE RED WIDING HOOD
Material: Archival Pigment Printing and self published book - Ricardo de Vicq de Cumptich, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Date of Production: 2014
Images Created: 39
Everybody knows this story; and all of us have already played these characters: the girl, the wolf and the huntsman. The dichotomy between innocence and pleasure must be pointed out to both children and adults, because we carry all the characters our whole lives.
Pleasure and responsibility represent a chess game of life. Of course, curiosity makes us play the roles of our choosing.
The metaphor behind the forbidden, despite the risk that we never know where that path will lead us, urges humanity towards the mysteries of life.
(This work was awarded as the gold winner in the book “Graphis Photography Annual 2015”, Graphis U.S. Inc., New York, NY, USA)
Body Memory
Material: Archival Pigment Printing and self published book - Ricardo de Vicq de Cumptich, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Date of Production: 2012
Images Created: 12
Our bodies are imperfect prisons.
We feel cold, hunger, fear, fatigue, pain and pleasure.
We feel that, like all other things in life and indeed life itself, we are mere passengers.
The only thing that does not fade is memory; it stays, filling an empty room; the memory of a body of today, alive and making a habitat of a space before transforming.
The images of a woman and a slept in bed fade into each other, like ships passing through the night, and parting as the morning comes.
The only link between them is the memory of the same pattern when the night falls.
MERIDIAN 180
Size: 120cm x 75cm
Material: Archival Pigment Printing and self published book - Ricardo de Vicq de Cumptich, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Date of Production: 2013
Images Created: 22
The work entitled “Meridian 180” is a series of photographic collages that represent a process of choices that people make along the trajectory of their lives. These choices determine facts and events; reflections of which can be seen through memories in coming decades, as a consequence of chosen paths.
The intention of the artist in constructing the collages was to show the diverse layers that we become today: a result of the choices we made “yesterday”.
Through this work the artist focuses on the change that comes from a higher source of reflection; changes that manifest from within all of us and can reverberate globally.
In principle, everyone is equal despite how his choices appear to be personal.
The greater the power of a few, the greater it is amplified and the consequences of choices made can determine the future of all humanity, following the natural law of acts/consequences; cause/effect.
(One of these images was exhibited at the Biennale D’Arte di Asolo – Third Edition, curated by Lorena Gava, 2014, Asolo, Treviso, Italy)
MIDNIGHT DREAMER
(book and exhibition/installation project)
Size: 100 cm x 100 cm
Material: Archival Pigment Printing and self published book - Ricardo de Vicq de Cumptich, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Date of Production: 2012
Images Created: 78
What is it that drives artist’s mind towards the sound of images?
Female duality that has both, the feminine and masculine qualities represented by the geometric symbols.
As in a frequency, which amplifies itself in a pulse of images spinning in space, as well the structure of the bodies playing the same role.
Living forms appearing in geometrical shapes and resulting in several new ones, creating meaning to the patterns.
Some bodies falling, floating, other ones fixed, evoke no lapse of time in space.
Sound, pulse and melody reveal rhythm and harmony through coded symbols within the dancing bodies.
Contrasted colours show an intentional analogy which revives memories that he used to feel when he painted in the 60's; in every sense, an intense, inspired and revolutionary age, when he allowed his imagination to flow freely, opening a gateway of many possibilities.
MOTHER NATURE
Size: 60 cm x 50 cm
Material: Archival Pigment Printing
Date of Production: 2012
Images Created: 10
At the hight of our urbanization, we have forgotten that we're as much a part of nature as any mountain, animal, river or tree on the planet.
Our bodies are made of the same raw material that forms the valley's and ocean's.
Niemeyer was said to reproduce the curves of the feminine form with his architecture.
And since the most ancient of times, primitive peoples have believed that, after death, their ancestors and loved ones would transform into spirits of the forest, mountains and stars.
Within this series I looked to explore this intimate relationship; interlaced human bodies and landscapes.
To reveal the power of Nature, inseparable from our humanity, that embraces us from the long forgotten past.
(One of these images took part in the group exhibition, “Ritos de Paisagem”, curated by Eder Chiodetto, 2012, A Estufa, São Paulo, SP, Brazil)
NUDES
First Exhibition: Individual, 1993 at Li & Boccato PhotoGallery, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Second Exhibition: Individual, 1994 at Tiziano Restaurant, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Third Exhibition: Individual, 1999 at Forum de Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil
Size: 24 cm x 30 cm
Material: gelatin silver paper
Date of Production: 1993
Images Created: 21
Bodies shaped in a chiaroscuro mood.
The idea of anatomy surrounded this project that was exhibited in São Paulo, 1993.
I explored the shapes of human bodies and their details, developing textures, contours, curves, forms, impressions and expressions, without showing their faces.
Still-life of anonymous bodies.
NO RETOUCH / PLATINUM PRINTS
Exhibition: Individual, 1998 (from 18 of March to 24 of April), Li PhotoGallery, São Paulo, SP, Brazil
Size: 8” x 10”, 5” x 7”, e 4” x 5”
Material: special paper Cranes and Arches 100% cotton, with Platinum and Palladium emulsion (developed and printed manually by the artist).
Date of Production: 1996-1998
Images Created: 30
My intention in this portrait series was to build an atmosphere of realness, disregarding any kind of interference. In my creative process I showed the models naked in their own essence, with no make-up or clothes. I asked them to awaken their natural way of being. All the work for this exhibition that took place in São Paulo, 1998, followed the same line of thought, including the platinum prints process; no retouch, nor enhancement.
The photographs of the series are available for sale directly to the photographer, signed, limited editions and accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity. Contact us.
The photographs of the series are available for sale directly to the photographer, signed, limited editions and accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity. Contact us.
The photographs of the series are available for sale directly to the photographer, signed, limited editions and accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity. Contact us.
The photographs of the series are available for sale directly to the photographer, signed, limited editions and accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity. Contact us.
