Nicolas Claris · Romain Claris
A photography and video exhibition
where red is de rigueur…
Photo © Nicolas Claris — All rights reserved
Because life is all about colour, for this exhibition we've chosen red… Magenta, ruby, purple, scarlet, vermilion, garnet, carmine, Grand Cru! Red evokes energy, nobility, vivacity, emotion… Feelings that are an integral part of our lives.
When it comes to red, wine and its biotope cannot escape our attention. Sensitive to the different expressions of wine through our senses, colour seems to us, as men of images, the most appropriate to present our sensibility, where perceived colour is fundamental and conducive to the imaginary.
On a March morning, we came across Château Angélus. We knew it was the one from the start. Moved by this love at first sight, we asked for carte blanche — and we got it…
We don't tame colour, we attempt to capture and render it. We observe it, admire it, it transports us. With cautious steps, we approached to catch the richness of its reds, playing with different, even violent lights, even with the soft glow of a candle, to reveal, perhaps, colours hitherto unsuspected. Like a magician, the wine offered itself up to our incredulous eyes, its hue, its multiple deep gradations, its sumptuous nuances seeming to wish to reveal its history.
When we began this work, we already had in mind soft, voluptuous images of persistent colours, bright or dark, pastel or vivid, with their dazzling transparencies, their unsettling and — almost — exhilarating promises.
Searching for purity: a conceptual and visual approach sometimes close to abstraction, we deliberately directed our gaze into the intimacy of surfaces and the depth of volumes, from the instant when colours play with us with the complicity of materials and light. With simple touches, we discover the infinitely coloured, revealed in broad daylight, in high definition.
Espace Culturel L'Hermine, Sarzeau
