Editorial

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"I would have liked to be an artist

To create the ugly, to create the beautiful,

I would have liked to be an artist

To be able to say why I exist”

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*excerpt from The Businessman's Blues, Michel Berger/Luc Plamondon

 

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It all starts with the gaze.

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Not a day goes by without a person, a place, a photo inspiring me.

 

Then, the gesture is a mixture of precision and letting go, that moment when instinct takes over, the pace accelerates, and the best is yet to come.

Among the artists whose work I admire: David Hockney, whom I discovered in 1999 during the “Espace/Paysage” exhibition at the Centre Pompidou.

A revelation! I loved its modernity, the colors...

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And so many others: Niki de Saint Phalle, Anna Eva Bergman, Yves Klein, Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Sonia Delaunay, Yayoi Kusama, Nicolas de Staël, Pablo Picasso, to name a few...

 

 

Street art is also a form of artistic expression that particularly interests me.

I took my first photos in New York in the 1980s, then I discovered the Berlin Wall—magnificent!

From Jean-Michel Basquiat to Banksy, it's a very rich pictorial approach that makes art accessible to everyone, everywhere.

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"Art does not portray what is visible, art makes visible." (Paul Klee)

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                        Sylvie Bergey

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