ARTSPEAK RADIO August 30

Wednesday August 30, 2017 Host/producer Maria Vasquez Boyd talks with Deb Cooper founder & Director Arts & AGEing KC, photograper Nicolas Dhervillers, and Executive Director Janet Simpson & Assistant Director Marissa Starke of the Kansas City Artists Coalition. Nicolas Dhervillers - Rétrospective Works” – Renowned French photographer exhibits for the first time in Kansas City Nicolas Dhervillers’ (b. 1981) photographic works span from small still lives to monumental landscapes. In many of his images, theatre, cinema, painting and photography coalesce. Dhervillers’ scenes often pay homage to the great artists of the past, including Nicolas Poussin and Gustave Courbet. Other works use photographic processing to take the viewer into a fictional space outside of time. His landscape photography is subjected to a digital process adapted from the cinematic “day for night” technique, lending an eerie look to pictures taken in broad daylight. Archival figures are then placed within the landscapes and washed with unnatural digital light. Dhervillers has participated in Paris Photo and festival Mono, a documenta 13 event. His works can be found in private collections and museums around the world. This retrospective marks Dhervillers’ first exhibition in the United States. Locations: Sherry Leedy Gallery, 2004 Baltimore Ave, Kansas City,…