To disfigure reality !

To disfigure reality, to de-structure it to make it hatch in a new harmony. Explore space and its transformation to build singular architectures. That is the perspective that fits Denis Morel’s work as a Visual Artist. Building on his long experience as an advertising and industrial photographer, he has been following a different path over the past twenty years. Driven by a desire for novelty, he deviates from reality. At first sight, his work can appear to be only virtual. but its origin is well anchored in reality. Denis uses photographs taken in the frame of commission or personal work as a starting point. In an approach filled with symbolic, he disfigures reality, transform, forges and alters those pictures in a quest of harmony, shapes and colours. Far from following a precise and automated path, Denis gropes and progresses in his creation by creating. He moves forward without fear of changing or altering the picture. The picture livens up, comes up to life. Denis Morel explores space and transforms it to build singular architectures that hatch under his pen-tablet to become timeless pieces of art that leave aside the original picture and its true sense.
These pictures are initially objects, singular objects that transform into subjective reality.
Is that reality an illusion ? That is precisely Denis’ approach : the creation of a new reality, the illusory reality of the original picture.

Sarah Bonjean

Prints and available formats

Each print is numbered, signed and delivered with a certificate of authenticity (frame on request).
Fine art printing on Hahnemühle paper.

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Panoramic formats

•         45   X     90   cm                                         •         18   X   36   in
•         60   X   120   cm                                         •         24   X   48   in
•         75   X   150   cm                                         •         30   X   60   in

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Standard formats

•         60   X     90   cm                                         •         24   X   36   in
•         80   X   120   cm                                         •         32   X   48   in
•       100   X   150   cm                                         •         40   X   60   in