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Item: Zelfportret nr. 36
1990
Photography, 54 x 54 cm.
Materials: gelatin silver print
Collection: (c) Dirk Braeckman, Courtesy Zeno X Gallery, Antwerpen.
"Dirk Braeckman's artistic production rests on a paradox: the artist's creativity alienates the photograph of its reproductive capacity. The photograph thus becomes image. Here, the decisive moment lies in the exact framing, and the image looks at references such as painting and cinema. This reference to another medium negotiates, problematises and sharpens the way looking is done through framing – the patient framing of what the artist wants to see and fix, in the wide angle made up by observation. That specific looking at the human being and its environment is the focus of this oeuvre."
Luc Lambrecht, Fotografie en vrijheid: Over de artistieke productie van Dirk Braeckman, Februay/March 2009
