The invisible Side |
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In the art of Kevin Rolly we are witnessing a search for the invisible, spiritual side of our human existence. In his work nudity is not used in a sexual manner, it's used to visualize that our naked body is just the temporary home of the energies we are made of. From 1994 he developed a personal technique called Oilgraphing, a mixture of photography and painting with oil mediums. This technique originally came from those early days when there was no color photography, just black and white. To achieve a more realistic effect some of these early black and white prints were colored by hand. Rolly uses this blending technique not to create a more realistic image, but to vitalize and energize his images. Besides his 'Oilgraphs' there are also some beautiful portraits present in his oeuvre. In a way they are thematically connected to his other work, only this time the expression comes from more traditional methods, like composition and light.
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