Bruno Baltzer

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Born in 1965. Graduated from Master of photography in 2003.

Sense of Place, European Landscape Photography, 2012, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussel, curated by Liz Wells, (B)

Mutations III : Public Images -- Private Views, 2011, Ultranature_6, European month of photography Luxembourg, Carré Rotondes, Luxembourg, (L)

Everyday(s), 2010, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'art contemporain, curated by Fabienne Bernardini et An Schiltz. Luxembourg, (L)

MUDAM collection, Of our artificiality, 2010, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Curated by Enrico Lunghi, (L)

Brave New World, 2010, MUDAM, Luxembourg, Curated by Enrico Lunghi, (L)

The photographic work of Bruno Baltzer is at the crossing of the documentation of vanishing worlds and their conceptual processing.
The popular culture where the unconscious collective survives or the family bonds determining the relation to the world are the guiding threads that cross its work.
For him, photography remains before all a way of questioning the world, a fight for existence. Finally by photographing only things that disappear he tents to extract their alleviating meanings.
Together with Leonora Bisagno, they created a freshly new born duo of artists: ultranature. Their work is a combination of different poetics and practices, aiming to the experimentation of media cross-reference within an intimate engagement concerning topics such as nature, nowadays living, as well as social and political questions.  At Tokyo Wonder Site, Leonora Bisagno and Bruno Baltzer will develop their common project ultranature.

About works / performance

Ultranature is an artistic collaboration which aims to the reflection on the concept of relation in itself, expressed though a dichotomic tension. The strain between public and private domains, consciousness' queries towards reality and human projections, strategies of dissimulation as well as unexpected revelations, the coexistence of natural and artificial realities unfold in their practice.
In a flux of images similar to a blog-like artwork, built on a sequence of chapters and in a world in which personal worlds slightly disappear, ultranature blends the lightness of playing and experimenting as well as intimacy with global questions in which media and communication play a relevant role in their work. Analytic processes and an undisguised attitude to revelation intentionally coexist. Ultranature wishes to freely explore complexity.

ultranature1_ mont blanc
ultranature1_2010, part of installation
mont blanc_b/w found photo_8 x 8 cm
unique piece

ultranature1_ untitled_ensemble
ultranature1_2010, part of installation
2 untitled_c-print_90 x 120 cm
unique pieces

Ultranature4_ensemble
ultranature4_2011
unique c-prints ensemble of 4 pictures, 210x80cm

ultranature6_14 Avril 2010 10:08 Greetings my friend
ultranature6_2011 serie of 24 pieces
«Greetings my friend»
Lambda print, diasec finish, 125x152cm, unique piece

ultranature6_installation_view_2
ultranature6_2011_installation_view_2
Européan Month of Photography Luxembourg
Mutations III : Public Images -- Private View
CarréRotondes 04.28 - 05.29.2011

ultranature9 _milou ultranature9_2011
picture and video
«Milou»
Lambda print, desk frame_cherry tree, 13x18cm, unique piece

ultranature10_never ending series
«work not for Luxembourg_12»
ultranature10_2011 never ending series
«work not for Luxembourg_12»
Lambda print, maple frame, 120x150cm, & 18x24cm, unique pieces

ultranature 3_opléhaut
ultranature3_capture02
simoultaneous video projection:
oplehaut1 00:00:14 - oplehaut2 00:00:24 loop

http://www.ultranatureproject.net