Wendelski was born in 1978 in Verviers, Belgium. He now lives and works in Liège, in the Art section of the Les Chiroux cultural centre. From 1993 to 1997, he studied at Académie des Beaux-Arts in Verviers, and then educated in Institut Supérieur des Beaux-Arts St Luc in Liège from 1997 to 2000. He won several awards, they are Propositions d’artistes – Contretype and Prix des Arts plastiques de la ville de Liège in 2013, Paule Pia Prijs – Fomu in 2011. His work Nage Libre is focused on liberty based on its name. The photographs in this collection are cold-colored, and sometimes with a single warm-colored item to make a great contrast. Every photographs are in the shape of square. These photographs are very balanced I think, and people are very little in Nage Libre. Most of the people in the collection are faceless.
Melanie Schiff
Schiff was born in 1977 in Chicago, USA. She now lives and works in Los Angeles. She first studied in Goldsmiths, University of London in 1995, and then educated as B.F.A in New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1999, and M.F.A in University of Illinois at Chicago in 2002. Schiff has few of skate park scenes, which shows a connection of past and future. Many of her pictures contain the element of graffiti. Her photographs have a quietly mysterious and subtly subversive sense. Her works are also creative I think. Black and white and colored photographs are about half-and-half divided. There are several photos are portraits of people, but most of the works in the collection are landscapes. In her portraits of people, I think she wants to express the change of movement.
Fortino was born, raised and educated in Chicago. He now lives and works in Chicago still. He received his B.A. in Liberal Arts with a concentration in photography from Columbia College Chicago in 1980, then he received his M.F.A in Art and Design from the University of Illinois at Chicago in 2001. He was awarded from the Illinois Arts Council. Fortino joined the Chicago Police Department since 1980, which led the publication of Institutional--the photographs of jails, schools, and other Chicago buildings. All his photographs in Institutional are architectural spaces without people but used by people. I think these photographs showed that there were some stories going on before, we can imagine whatever we want. It is a kind of freedom but also a kind of constraint.
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