March 2025
Marie-Anne Kleiber
We see them from the street, as if planted in the window. Three olive trees with thick trunks, molded by the centuries, frozen in monumental images. In the gallery, seven other venerable trees were captured at night by Antoine Schneck. The photographer "met" them, as he says, in Puglia, Italy, in 2011. He who, for twenty years, has isolated faces, living or sculpted, on a black background, has portrayed these olive trees in the same way, but in black and white. He took photos of them several times, without changing the frame but by varying the lighting. In post-production, he then recomposed the different shots into a single image. Manipulations that made these foliage emerge from nothingness, and reflected light from all sides. Resplendent.
Antoine Schneck, Giuseppe, 100 x 120 cm