STEFAN BEYST
Stefan Beyst’s circumspect approach combines the theory, philosophy, and history of art, with an understanding of the connection between art and all things in life, from love and ego, to progeny and prophecy. Perhaps that’s why his images compel us to abandon preconceptions about what we are seeing, thus rather than see what we have learned these optical frequencies represent, we simply see the colors, shapes and contrasts which our eyes truly receive. In this way the artist bridges the gap between creating and discovering, making the work an aleatoric collaboration between the artist and his environment. Beyst’s digital photography insists we discard assumptions as to “what thing this is, and what it means to us,” thus shifting our focus to the artistic qualities present in all things.
I like pictures that are strong: revelatory and fascinating...
That is why I am not feeling at home, neither in the recent development of painting, nor in that of photography, where such images seem to become increasingly more scarce. Both branches of the image production are trapped in a hopeless trench war, in which they take opposite positions that cannot but drive them into ever new dead ends: whereas painting threatens to degenerate into staged reality, design, cheap philosophy or empty revolutionary gesture, photography seems to become increasingly mesmerised by documenting or reduplicating the existent - however interesting - if it does not altogether lose itself in the solving of all the technical difficulties in rendering the real world.
Precisely the digital revolution opens hitherto unknown perspectives to overcome photography's much scorned dependency of the given and to freely transform the existent world in a self-created, self-contained reality of a higher order: the world of art. That is why I opted for the digital camera and digital manipulation, and above all for the immaterial digital screen, lighted from within, that only completes the digital production of the image- in the hope that a further development of the technology of the screen will free the digital image from its hitherto obligatory transformation into a printed reflecting surface.
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