Marco Sanges

MARCO SANGES

Marco Sanges is an imaginative and innovative photographer who has exhibited worldwide.

He first experienced the process of developing and printing black and white photography at his uncle’s photographic lab.

Dazzled by fashion, he went on to become a photographer for Vogue Italia before moving to London, where he now lives.

Clients include: Cutler and Gross, Agent Provocateur, Vogue, Sunday Telegraph, Photo, Katalog, Dolce&Gabbana, Eyemazing

Marco Sanges, endowed with a matchless eye, composes… arresting photographic images encompassing Byzantine excess, Surrealist irony and Gothic romance… Indeed, Marco Sanges does not attempt mere photographic reproductions of paintings… he distils and transmutes such subject matter into his very own wonderful and quite marvellous distinctive idiom.

Prince Stanislas (Stash) Klossowski de Rola, Balthus’ son This fantastic storyteller creates his photographic narratives as cinematic sequences. As we peer through Sanges’ silvered lens, the distortion suggests that all is meaningless, nothing has purpose.

As a result, the subjects are trapped in cruelly endless mimes, menaced relentlessly by incomprehensible outside forces. Borrowing stylistically from the silent movies of the 1920s and 30s, Sanges’ players gesture helplessly from the other side of their screens.

Drawing inspiration from silent movies and surrealism each scene combines themes of nudity and voyeurism, sexuality and costume and danger and play.

Sunday Times Books include: Circumstances, Venus, Wild, and Erotic Photography Awards include: The Best Experimental Art Film at the Open Cinema Festival in St. Petersburg, Russia 2009 and Best Art Film at the Portobello Film Festival London, UK, 2008 for the short Circumstances.

‘Marco Sanges, endowed with a matchless eye, composes… arresting photographic images encompassing Byzantine excess, Surrealist irony and

Marco's is in the permanent Gothicwork romance…

Indeed, Marco Sanges does not attempt mere collection of the Virginia Museum photographic reproductions of paintings… he distils and transmutes such subject matter of Fine Arts USAinto his very own wonderful and quite marvellous distinctive idiom’ Prince Stanislas (Stash) Klossowski de Rola, Balthus’ son

This fantastic storyteller creates his photographic narratives as cinematic sequences. As we peer through Sanges’ silvered lens, the distortion suggests that all is meaningless, nothing has purpose.

As a result, the subjects are trapped in cruelly endless mimes, menaced relentlessly by incomprehensible outside forces. Borrowing stylistically from the silent movies of the 1920s and 30s, Sanges’ players gesture helplessly from the other side of their screens.

Homage Balthus and his son Prince Stash Klossowski De Rola No. 1 C-print 40 x 60 cm, edition of 15

Homage Balthus and his son Prince Stash Klossowski De Rola No. 3 C-print 40 x 60 cm, edition of 15

Lyrical Ecstasy No. 1 C-print 50 x 60 cm, edition of 15

Lyrical Ecstasy No. 2 C-print 60 x 50 cm, edition of 15

Homage Balthus and his son Prince Stash Klossowski De Rola No. 4 C-print 60 x 40 cm, edition of 15

Homage Balthus and his son Prince Stash Klossowski De Rola No. 5 C-print 60 x 40 cm, edition of 15

Unexpected Gelatin silver print 80 x 90 cm, edition of 10

Brothel No. 3 Gelatin silver print 80 x 90 cm, edition of 10

Brothel No. 4 Gelatin silver print 80 x 90 cm, edition of 10

Display Gelatin silver print 60 x 50 cm, edition of 15

Circumstances 148 Gelatin silver print 30 x 40 cm, edition of 15

Circumstances 37 Gelatin silver print 122 x 168 cm, edition of 5

Selected Exhibitions 2014 2013

2012 2011 2010

2009 2008 2004

Bodyworlds - Von Hagens by Sanges, Kleine Olympia Halle Munich THAN New York Academy of Art Da End Gallery Paris At Home with Art in aid of the Prince's Trust London Art Warehouse, Rotterdam Proud Gallery London Eduard Planting Fine Art Photographs, Amsterdam Art and Design London Gosh Art Auction curated by Tamara Ecclestone, London Edward James Foundation, West Dean, United Kingdom Espai, Barcelona Hay Hill Gallery, London Hackney Empire, London Windsor Arts Centre, United Kingdom GG Gallery, London Wanted gallery, London Take Home a Nude, NY Academy of Arts curated by Eileen Guggenheim, New York Jonathan Cooper Park Walk Gallery, London British Art Fair London, Art London Arte Fiera Bologna, Italy

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