"Butterfly 16" (FRAMED) Photography 52" x 42" in Edition 1/8 by Giuliano Bekor
Title: Butterfly B16
Year: 2018
Print size: 50" x 40" Inch
Framed size: 52" x 42" Inch
Edition: 1/8
Artist proof: 2
Signed and numbered by the artist.
Comes with COA issues by the artist.
Medium:
The artwork is printed on Archival fine art Inkjet premium print on Silkrock paper with a high gloss finish. Back-mounted on a 1/8-inch hand-polished aluminum finish. Includes custom-made black matte museum-style wooden floater frame with face finish with a black matte 1x1 inch floater. Sealed with Optimum, a non-reflective museum-grade UV Acrylic. The frame includes a custom-made French cleat.
BUTTERFLY series
Butterflies
Ephemeral. Graceful. Feminine. Sensual.
Butterflies are like women: Astoundingly beautiful by carrying varied pattern designs; they are the perfect alloy to every woman's shape. The symbol of the human soul reflects their grace and forms on women and coalesce to reach a sense of oneness.
Belonging to the nocturnal life or starting their metamorphosis journey from dawn, they both aim for a glorious future, a colorful life, a desire for the greatest achievement, and a profound desire to wander through other worlds.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Internationally recognized photographer, Giuliano Bekor, holds a portfolio that includes work from the realms of fashion, beauty, celebrity, advertising, and fine art.
Giuliano’s photography has been featured in top publications around the globe, and his client list includes an endless file of beauty industry leaders, advertising agencies, celebrities, producers, and artists.
With 30 years in the industry, Giuliano has perfected his craft to an exceptional level of expertise. Composed of light, color, space and form, Giuliano brings ideas conceptualized in his own imagination into reality throughout his work.
Currently living between New York and Los Angeles, Giuliano is often on the move traveling for work and inspiration. Always the restless visionary, he ceases to continually express his fresh and nuanced style.
For Giuliano Bekor, a photograph is an image that comes into being consciously, composed of light, color, space and form. Like a painter, he sketches, refining ideas through pen and pencil well before the shutter clicks. A camera is strictly a means to an end, a way of making a palpable visual record of an idea that gestates in his mind, gains shape by his hand, and resolves through his eye as it peers through the lens.
His subject is the human body, almost always nude. These images delve into the splendor of the body - how it can express the inner meaning of who we are. Limbs, torsos, muscles and bones are exposed as though carved out of a supple, glowing stone that flexes and twists. Many of these photographs feature subjects posed with the eyes obscured, the face covered.
If we look closely, Bekor says, we can see that the body is as much a window into the soul as the eyes. This is a gallery of the soul etched into the forms we assume in the physical world. Through exaggerated contrast between light and dark, smooth and textured, vaporous and tactile, Giuliano deliberately filters the extraneous.
The camera captures the image, but for Bekor each exposure is a transformation - of himself, his subjects, and us. He is digging into uneasy turf, fraught with tension: masculine/feminine, heroic/cowardly, shameless/shameful, eternal/fleeting. The intensity of detail, the fiercely exquisite perfection of the bodies themselves, the unflinching, scrupulous engagement of the lens, negates all pretense of politeness. Confronted, we are summoned to look. So we must. And we do. And we experience the beautiful human forms we inhabit and the silent, eloquent language they speak.
