is to architectural photography what trolls are to the Internet. The
Belgian photographer, who is the subject of a solo show next month in
San Francisco, delights in making images that are just believable enough
to confuse the eye.
Dujardin calls his art--which is not quite photography and not quite illustration--“fictions.” Like a digital-age Dr. Frankenstein, the 41-year-old artist crafts his fictions from multiple photographs, cutting and pasting them into something that just passes for realism. One image shows a building made entirely out of chimneys, another structure has a massive wall of windows--each a different size and shape. His newest work, shot in the coastal French town of Deauville, splices unexpected materials like medieval crenellations and cinderblock walls. Another 2012 series shows Guimaraes, Portugal as a mutant city, where shacks support highway overpasses and landscape becomes structure.
Dujardin calls his art--which is not quite photography and not quite illustration--“fictions.” Like a digital-age Dr. Frankenstein, the 41-year-old artist crafts his fictions from multiple photographs, cutting and pasting them into something that just passes for realism. One image shows a building made entirely out of chimneys, another structure has a massive wall of windows--each a different size and shape. His newest work, shot in the coastal French town of Deauville, splices unexpected materials like medieval crenellations and cinderblock walls. Another 2012 series shows Guimaraes, Portugal as a mutant city, where shacks support highway overpasses and landscape becomes structure.
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