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27/9/2007

Karel Fonteyne

Young Gallery, Bruxelles

Pistoleros

Young Gallery has the pleasure to present you a selection of works from Karel Fonteyne expanding a period of 40 years of photography and a preview of his new work called "Pistoleros".

His actual work becomes more conceptual and abstract, questioning the human condition and the interaction with the world.

Pieces of wood resembling guns were photographed and collected like it would concern an investigation and a proof of crime. The combination of text and image resulted in a poetical and an unexpected outcome.

"Pistoleros" is a cynical wink that refers to political events, dictators and victims. These photographs don't show the cruelty, they confront ourself with our own responsability and the choice we can make.

The fingerprint of a child’s soul is the emotional imprint of his early reactions on impressions and experiences.
We are who we were.

As a young boy he used to wonder through the twilight of the woods, strange feelings slipped into his veins as the universe made him a witness of what one can’t tell nor describe.

More attracted by the inner than the outside world, and after having seen movies from Bergman, Fellini and in particular ‘Fuglane’ by Terjei Vesaas which impressed him by the incredible pictorial description of the inner lives of the three persons and the nature surrounding them, he started to photograph.

“Most of the time, my pictures are conceived in an “écriture automatique”- way. I just follow what’s coming in and it’s only later that I understand the meaning of what I made. More and more I have the impression that I am just an inbetween who transfers messages into photographs...

Pistoleros (The Motherfucker of all Battles) refers to political events, wars, dictators and heroes. The 45 works are a cynic wink, a cry of revolt against violence and the never ending cruality of men who always repeats himself.

Image: Los Pinos de Pinochet

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