Video: Photographic puzzles of Pep Ventosa
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Jigsaw puzzles are an insanely exciting activity not only for children, but also for adults. But only when this puzzle, bought in the store, is assembled by a child, it is a game. And when an adult gets down to business, and the elements of the puzzle are made by him - this, probably, can already be called creativity.
The images created by the Spaniard Pep Ventosa are essentially the same puzzles, albeit in a somewhat unusual way. For each of his work, the author creates hundreds of photographs of the same place, taking pictures at different times of the day and at different angles, and then from the elements of the images obtained, Pep collects one work. According to the author, he does not seek to recreate an ideal seamless picture, the meaning of his work is precisely to show the entire set of initial elements: how the parts of the picture adjust to each other."
As a result, according to Pep Ventosa, an image is obtained that magically turns out to be unlike the object he took pictures of. An image in which each fragment is a real photograph, but in general everything looks like it will never happen in reality. “My work is about visual perception,” says the author. "About what the eye sees and how thinking connects all the pieces together."
Pep Ventosa collects his "jigsaw puzzles", traveling around the world and taking pictures of famous landmarks. In his works you can see the spire of the Eiffel Tower, and the landscapes of San Francisco, and the romantic canals of Venice …
Pep Ventosa was born in 1957 in Barcelona (Spain). He currently lives and works in San Francisco (USA). Exhibitions of his works were held in the USA, France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, and the author himself has repeatedly won prestigious awards in the field of photography.
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