Darren Smith Dorothy s Gallery

Collage photograpy Kaleidoscopes, broken mirrors, reflections on the water until Nov. 4, 2007


I have always been intrigued by things that alter my perspective on the world around me. I make my artistic style-making mosaics from photographs-to develop a highly personal way to transform reality.
Mosaîque Each is made by hand using glue and spray with dozens, sometimes hundreds, of my photographs. I take a lot of pictures of the same scene and creates a new composition with the printed: I cut into small pieces and then glue together. The various levels of my compositions to add a sculptural dimension. The shadows created produce a subtle effect of three dimensions.

My work transgresses the "truth" that we think that the photographers documenting. In user pieces of reality to create a new world, I built a bridge over the gulf between what is actually the world and what I want to be. The effect thus made to re-observe the world through a mirror broken with its edges broken, I can reshape reality. Traveling feed my passion and my job and a large part of my creations, composed of over one hundred pieces, representing places around the world.
All my mozaîque is made entirely by hand without digital manipulation of photographs. I only use materials for a long life: the photos are printed on archival paper, glue is specially designed for photographs and the media has no acid.

Dorothy's gallery
24, rue keller
75011 - PARIS
Métro Bastille

Giulio Paolini The unknown Author

Gallery Yvon Lambert and Nadie Goodmann between on December 14 and January 27 simultaneously with Pairs and New.

Giulio Paolini simultaneously exposes a retrospective-prospect in four places - the galleries Marian Goodman and Yvon Lambert, in Paris and New York. At Marian Goodman, Paris. Jean Paolini and joining, why not, insofar as it gathers elements to feed a step. But with this artist except standard collage is only.

But works of Jean Paolini presented at the Gallery Yvon Lambert and Nadie Goodmann between on December 14 and January 27 simultaneously in Pairs and New York expresses in particular a work on the prospect, obliteration, framing. It also exploits the square, the point and the vacuum. In the center of table convergence of the prospects is an empty place. The secrecy of work is hidden in the form, a set of mirrors and setting in abyss. Once more the meeting of the elements is expressed. While passing quickly in front of works one S very does not see many references to the painter Poussin and even less with one expression of a structuralism that criticisms a little quickly classified with the files of the history of philosophy. The work of Paolini which takes its origin in art Povéra. An erudite déconstruction which is integrated perfectly in the history of art.