Read about Paul Serrada and his series "et in arcadia ego - forest pictures" by Megakles Rogakos, curator of ACGart, Athens: "et in arcadia ego"
| In the loud, rapid, often shrill media world of today I search on purpose the counterpoint: Calm, subtle images in which time itself seems to slow down, space itself to change..... Here a still surface of water reflecting reed suddenly gives birth to an artificial game of light and shadow as if the picture was manipulated. There a desert landscape develops an astounding depth and power to absorb you, making you forget about anything but form and colour – be it greyscales. |
| However, this meditative staging of lights and shadows is not “harmless”. Small, hardly perceptible or even disconcerting details are referring to the intrusion of man into nature, the hidden presence of the photographer, the intervention of the artist or to some other thing “behind the image”. |
| Lately, I have worked with more forceful intervention using digital techniques to completely recompose the original photography. However, even the "unreal" beauty of the picture should still open up the spectator for moments of wonder and enchantment, if not reflection about what he sees. |
| Thus the pictures allow views of this - and at the same time - other worlds in and around us. Worlds, we might have forgotten, we would like to suppress or simply have not discovered yet. |
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