Gregory Colbert, Ashes & Snow
"In exploring the shared language and poetic sensibilities of all animals, I'm working towards rediscovering the common ground that once existed when people lived in harmony with animals. The images depict a world that's without beginning or end, here or there, past or present." . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gregory Colbert Gregory Colbert's Ashes and Snow is an ongoing project that weaves together photographic works, three 35mm films, art installations and a novel in letters. With profound patience and an unswerving commitment to the expressive and artistic nature of animals, he has captured extraordinary, unscripted interactions between humans and animals. His 21C bestiary includes more than 40 totemic species from around the world. Since he began creating his singular work of Ashes and Snow, Colbert had made more than 30 expeditions to locations such as India, Egypt, Burma, Tonga, Namibia, Kenya, Antarctica, the Azores and Borneo.
Colbert, who calls animals "nature's living masterpieces," chose to film animals in their native habitats in an effort to be true to each animal's voice. The film can be viewed as a work of art as well as a poetic field study. The film was edited by two-time Oscar-winner Pietro Scalia. It is narrated by Laurence Fishburne, and the musical collaborators include Michael Brook, David Darling, Heiner Goebbels, Lisa Gerrard, Lukas Foss, Nusrat Fateh Ali Kahn and Djivan Gasparyan. The Ashes and Snow exhibition now includes more than 100 large-scale photographic artworks and a one-hour film and two nine-minute film haikus. The show first opened at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, in 2002. The permanent home of Ashes and Snow, the Nomadic Museum, debuted in New York in 2004 and is charted to travel the globe with no final destination. None of the images have been digitally collaged orsuperimposed. They record whattheartist himself saw through the lens of his camera. While Colbert uses both still and movie cameras, the images are not stills from the film. These mixed media photographic works marry umber and sepia tones in a distinctive encaustic process on handmade Japanese paper. The artworks, each approximately five feet by eight feet, are mounted without explanatory text so as to encourage an open-endedinteraction with the images. |
Gregory Colbert, Ashes & Snow
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