Zoom
Le Cap 2
2009
Patrick Messina
Photography
120 x 150 cm
Patrick Messina uses a view camera, often used forarchitectural photography, which permits him to shoot, without special effects, blurriness and depth, using different levels of sharpness. This technique allows him to work in detail on the nuances of color in the images and to offer, as a painter, an individual, personal interpretation of reality.
Lives and works in Paris.
Patrick Messina was born in 1967 in Paris. After graduating from the École Louis Lumière, he snapped his first photographs for Libération, Télérama and Les Inrockuptibles. Press, advertising, business communication, Patrick Messina has made his mark in various image media. All of the references that accompany our over-mediatised daily lives are placed under a magnifying glass, emphasised, and questioned all at once. His recent solo works, in the field of urban landscapes such as New York, Hong Kong, Paris, or in rural areas like Iceland, Côteaux du Languedoc and even the Gulf of Morbihan have made Messina known as an artist who excels at conveying an intimate experience of spaces and giving them a reading that renews our thoughts on them.
“[PatrickMessina's] images dwell on the infinitely small or dive into the infinitelylarge. Reality, normally near and clear, is modified in favour of an etherealvision; its meaning balances in the emotional. The images are not properlytranslated: lost in one's feelings, the onlooker no longer understands theimage. In the words of Sofia Coppola, it is “Lost in Translation.” In an etymologicalsense, Messina's photographs could be called sublime: they play withboundaries, perplexing our interpretation and dismissing our rationality.”
EliseLegris-Heinrich
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