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Towering Inferno Photograph - Limited Edition of 1

Algis Kemezys

Canada

Photography, C-type on Canvas

Size: 35 W x 75 H x 1 D in

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This image was made from a Kodacrome slide painted with toxic household chemicals and then burnt with fire. Not once but twice. The first burning removes the image from the emulsion side of the slide, without burning through. After freezing, the image is burnt back onto the slide, which is something I discovered and found out I could do.It was like the Phoenix rising from the ashes. This transformation of the image was my attempt to make original enviromental photographs that were both beautiful and horrific. I also hoped to achieve something of an impressionistic image because it was Van Goghs use of color and texture that attracted me, like everyone else. Esp after visitng the VG Museum in Amsterdam. The colors are gloriously brilliant and somewhat muted around the edges because of the double burn but I liked the results because of certain buildings painted by Claude Monet. This work was made back in 1984.After my parents home burnt down and I dug some some slides out of the ashes that were remarkably transformed by the fire and the four seasons effect on them. There is no one else in the world who has done this as far as I understand. I wanted these images to represent my feelings to the world in a striking and original way. I am charging so much because after burning thousands of these this is one of the best of the double burn series. A true value for your dollar as well. Along the way I allowed what I thought the spirit of Van Gogh would do if I allowed him to use my body. I will have to dig the original slide from my Archive and make a one of a kind print for you. The smaller ones do exist but this one is very special to me and represents the best of this technique over the 8 years I experimented on this. This work has been published in some cutting edge photography magazines and won a Bronze Medal at the International Art Competition in NYC back in the 1987. Ivan Karp of OK Harris fame was one of the Jurors..

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Photography:C-type on Canvas

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:1

Size:35 W x 75 H x 1 D in

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Algis Kemezys started taking photographs and filming with super 8 in the mid- sixties after deciding it was far more exciting to him than painting or making landsculpture which he did for a number of years.. His fine-art career began in 1979 with the apprenticeship to the doyenne of photography, the late BERENICE ABBOTT, discoverer of EUGENE ATGET and assistant to MAN RAY. He has had his most important retrospective at the Vilnius Art Gallery, Lithuania (1998), and has been awarded three international awards. Currently he has divided his time between Qubec and the U.S., and has traveled to many countries around the globe. Geomancer, Dowser,Rock Sculptor, Gourmet Chef, World Traveller, Cinematographer, Photographer, Director Algis Kemezys started out in the visual arts as a fine art photographer. He has photographed all over the world. His work has been published and exhibited internationally (New York; Chicago; Canada; Greece; Mexico and India). While photographing the island of Crete (Greece) for a book cover in 2002, he became interested in making a documentary about the islands mimetoliths. Drawing on his previous experience in working with video (Ryerson University; as well as an ongoing sideline in video-art pieces) he has finished two successive documentary films, the first of which (Faces of Myth) played in several festivals to good notices, and the second of which (Mimetoliths) was finished in October 2005 and showed with the Untied Nations Mediterranean. Enviromental Film Festival. Ishia Film festival, Italy and Won peoples choice in the Night Gallery Film Festivals.

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