Bodybuilders world by Kurt Stallaert

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Kurt Stallaert的系列作品Bodybuilders world都是日常场景和人物，但仔细一看，会发现超现实的扭曲。安静的讽刺，熟悉却是不真实。每张照片都有故事，有剧情，他们想表达是什么？本是反映事物原本面貌的摄影在这里变成了一场谎言。这个系列也是Kurt Stallaert艺术生涯探索中的首场个展系列。

Kurt Stallaert出生于1969年的比利时，其在艺术摄影的才华和创造力得到了国际认可，成为比利时和国外顶尖广告机构宣传案的摄影和艺术总监。其风格化的作品为国际多个品牌做出成功推广。健美世界是他从2007年以来开始的项目，里面的男人女人还有儿童他们的肌肉都是虚构的。

 

“我的工作，涉过想象边界，超越简单美学，日常不再日常”

一直在现实和超现实之间游走的Kurt Stallaert最近也开始涉足视频和电影领域，他的工作经得起仔细观看和反复品味。图像和剧情之间富有关联性的饱满张力。下一刻剧情仿佛即将发生。Kurt Stallaert知道如何改变人的体态以及所包含的意义，并让其结果具有独特的表现力和情感，最后能够与观众发生强烈互动。这是不败的艺术征途。

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Kurt Stallaert (°Belgium, 1969) is a contemporary photographer and art director. Internationally recognized for his talent and creativity, he was soon discovered by some of the top advertising agencies in Belgium and abroad and directed major advertising campaigns. As a fashion and advertising photographer Kurt developed a personal style of impacting images that inspired many international brands. His continuous search for authentic and strong images in his professional work lead him automatically to artistic photography. His first personal project called Bodybuilders’ World (since 2007) is a photographical series of muscled men, women and children in an imaginary world. Appealing images that seduce and threaten at the same time.

“With my work I would like to cross the border of imagination, go beyond simple aesthetics and make the everyday exceptional.”

Exploring the boundaries between the real and the surreal in his photographical work, Kurt Stallaert recently also discovered video and film. He started to work with moving images he calls moving stills: motion pictures that approach both photography and video. At first sight, when we glimpse at these images, we think of photos or video stills. Only when we look closer and longer, we discover slowly moving images with a dramatic tension between beauty and suspense. As if there was something about to happen. With a sense of metamorphosis and transformation of the human body, Kurt Stallaert knows how to drive up an unique artistic expression and emotion in his images. Both his photos and his moving stills have an overwhelming and impacting effect on the spectator, taking us on an invincible journey.

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