Filip Naudts -Erfenis van het moederlandschap-

"The making of..."
Dedicated to Filip Naudts' introspective pictorial series 'Erfenis van het moederlandschap':
By means of neo-romantic images Filip Naudts tries to painfully remind himself and society of the way the landscape, our natural environment, is being divided, more and more harshly, at the dawn of the third millennium, and the way it gets crammed with buildings as a result of our unstoppable thirst for prosperity.
However, as a photographer, Filip Naudts never offers an emotionless view of reality stripped naked. While photographing, his view becomes introspective; it makes him think about the things he cherishes in his own inner world. Therefore he "constructs" unreal genre pictures in timeless landscapes, in which women free themselves from every form of being defined, no matter how famous they may be in real life today.
Aesthetically, he chose to adhere to rural pictural art, a style of which for instance Gertrude Käsebier (1854-1934) is representative. Her work "The Heritage of Motherhood", dating from approximately 1905, functions as his main starting point. His being inspired by this image probably results from his looking "backwards" and the fact that he likes to loose himself but all too much in the past, endless and unknown. His job in the Antwerp Museum of Photography very likely has something to do with that too.

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Film & Animation

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