Igor Kourany
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Photography is for me yet another conductive instrument, one which contributes to a subsequent purpose. I use it as a documental base for a pre-established initial purpose which later transforms to sometimes hatch in the image itself. With it I catch emotions and feelings in time starting from a frame of light, with it I freeze moments and transfer partial reality in order to capture some of the expression and gestual state of mind (nostalgia, desire, angst) characteristic of the human being.

My technique lacks a defined linear edge that separates the numerous disciplines that integrates it. Photography, as well as illustration and 3D drawings are just a part of the group of influences and techniques clearly expressed in my work. Mi work takes a little bit of each one; (the sharpness and composition of photography, the high contrasts and iconography quality of graphic design, the fantasy in body painting, with lighting associated to theater and perspectives usually found in architecture presentations). All this conjugates en one unique recipe where a hybrid art arise, which derives from al techniques and none at the same time, for none could claim with enough authority and its absolute paternity.

Having as virtual stages predominantly warm and arid, with perspectives that get lost in an infinite horizon, where iconography and a nude human figure, primitive at some moments, constitutes the plastic language essence. That’s how I assist myself with motive and models so different and circumstantial according to the occasion.

Human virtual figures compose the surreal scene that carries the onlooker to a parallel world conceived in image itself.

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