Occasion: The Photography Show by AIPAD: New York Metropolis, US

Join us sales space #D16 at The Photography Show the place we current works by Frédéric David, Astrid Verhoef, and Jan Schlegel, three artists whose distinct practices discover transformation, notion, and the poetic potential of images.

After twenty-six years working alongside couturier Karl Lagerfeld, Frédéric David has developed a singular figurative follow by which every {photograph} is altered by way of a fragile switch course of that partially dissolves and veils the unique picture. The fragmented {photograph} is then scanned and printed on high-quality artwork paper, earlier than receiving a ultimate hand-applied varnish that lends the floor a painterly texture harking back to Renaissance canvases, reworking the portrait into each vestige and palimpsest.

Astrid Verhoef presents a collection of introspective self-portraits that discover id and notion. Through a fastidiously constructed technical and conceptual method to self-representation, her pictures create quiet, contemplative areas the place the boundaries between physique, nature, and interior expertise subtly dissolve.

Jan Schlegel will unveil new works from his collection Of Aliens, Mermaids & Medusas alongside latest botanical images produced utilizing gum bichromate and platinum printing. These works reveal his mastery of historic photographic processes whereas revealing a poetic imaginative and prescient that displays on nature’s magnificence and fragility.