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Wouter Deruytter
17 April 2008 through 24 May 2008
In the Main Gallery, Light & Sie is proud to present “Wicked Creek,” a new series of color photographs by noted Belgian artist, Wouter Deruytter. . Executed in the summer of 2007, these images document the Montana fires and the valiant firefighters who fought them. Presented primarily as diptychs, triptychs and even the occasional quadratych and quintriptych, these extremely heartfelt and often moving images recount the continuing story of man’s perpetual conflict with the elements and our need to tame nature itself.
Invoking a long tradition of imagery from artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Frederic Edwin Church, Deruytter seeks to draw us closer to the environment and urges us to re-find our respect for the majesty of our land. Philosophically akin to Whitman and Thoreau, these works seem at once out of fashion and yet, timely in its message of simplicity. Deruytter lushly bathes his subjects in warm tones of color, all the time posturing the real impetus for producing this series: This is our home, and this is its cycle of regeneration.
17 April 2008 through 24 May 2008
In the Main Gallery, Light & Sie is proud to present “Wicked Creek,” a new series of color photographs by noted Belgian artist, Wouter Deruytter. . Executed in the summer of 2007, these images document the Montana fires and the valiant firefighters who fought them. Presented primarily as diptychs, triptychs and even the occasional quadratych and quintriptych, these extremely heartfelt and often moving images recount the continuing story of man’s perpetual conflict with the elements and our need to tame nature itself.
Invoking a long tradition of imagery from artists such as Caspar David Friedrich and Frederic Edwin Church, Deruytter seeks to draw us closer to the environment and urges us to re-find our respect for the majesty of our land. Philosophically akin to Whitman and Thoreau, these works seem at once out of fashion and yet, timely in its message of simplicity. Deruytter lushly bathes his subjects in warm tones of color, all the time posturing the real impetus for producing this series: This is our home, and this is its cycle of regeneration.
