Very happy to present the originality of the work, the visual poetries of Michel Kirch. A plastic photographer, he takes us with his photographic works into dreamlike universes, opening up to the great myths of the universe. I appreciate the trust he places in his unconscious to let the essential emerge, and from analog to digital, when the image is complete, it resonates within him like a musical phrase... Edgar Morin calls him the awakener... To me, he is a hedonistic seeker, somewhat like Goethe was...

A mountaineer, musician, doctor—three M’s for this unclassifiable artist, passionate about freedom, who works with dark and deep colors, black and its contrasts, white light.

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His relationship with nature is symbiotic. The Anthropocene is an important part of his work. He studied ecology long before the public knew this term, with Jean-Marie Pelt.

For him, myths are not contemporary but timeless. The foundations were laid since prehistory and constitute us universally. “Contemporary art aimed to be a break, with emotion giving way to the cerebral, and many do not find themselves in it,” he tells us.

 

 

Martine BOULART

President of the Ermitage Cultural Fund

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