Tine Guns: Amoureux Solitaire

Tine Guns is an established mid-career contemporary artist, who was born in Belgium. Tine Guns' work are currently exhibiting at Rossicontemporary in Brussels with the exhibition Why do we fall, Bruce? (08 March 2020 - 26 April 2020).

Belgium – 

Two actors perform one of the most iconographic acts in film history: the kiss. ‘Amoureux Solitaire’ is an artist book which investigates the use of montage within a book. It’s a play with the parameters of the medium. A book, like film, shares element like beginning and end, frame and the photographic image. But it has unique features like different reading directions, the turning of a page, the margin, the reader who has control over the time he spends to look at an image. ‘Amoureux Solitaire’ places itself in the grey zones between both mediums and explores new possibilities.
 
Tine_Guns
 
There’s an exploration of time and space. A dog appears in the margin of the book, at the border between the walls where the actors are kissing. 

The White wall becomes the white page and the girl disappears again behind the wall (or is it in the book?)


Related Posts

John Vink: ‘The photographer is not a hero’

Cambodia- Based out of Cambodia for the past 13 years, Belgium born photojournalist John Vink, member of the prestigious Magnum ...

Boris Eldagsen: The Poems

Germany –  Boris Eldagsen‘s Photography explore the limits of what can be depicted. The ‘POEMS’ utilise the external reality, to ...

Brian Driscoll : Political Prisoners of Egypt

Egypt –  As a result of the mass demonstrations that took place in the great cities of Egypt, many people ...

Ricardo Cases: El porqué de las naranjas (Why Oranges)

Spain –  I have seen a river in Paris / next to the grey tower / I have seen an ...

Gianmarco Maraviglia – Olivia’s Roots

Italy – Olivia has grandparents coming from four different nationalities. Italy, Germany, Egypt and Romania. A child who embodies these ...

Ken Schles Invisible City

Ken Schles: “Invisible City” – Portrait of 1980’s Downtown New York

USA –  New York has always been the city of ultimate extremes, extremes in terms of social classes, races, wealth, ...

Francois Hebel : The Arles Aesthetic

France –  Francois Hebel, one of the most influential man in photography today boasts of a prolific career, spanning 12 ...

What Remains – Sarker Protick

Bangladesh –  It was in the afternoon, I was sitting on my grandpa’s couch. The door was slightly open and ...

Takeshi Ishikawa: HIJRAS – The Third Gender of India

THIS STORY CONTAINS EXPLICIT CONTENT In Indian society, it is said that when a hermaphrodite baby is born in an ...