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    • AKIM MONET
      Apr. 23, 2024

      AKIM MONET

      Est: £1,000 - £2,000

      Akim Monet, Seeking Al Tawhid Series, Archival pigment print on cotton and paper. Edition of 7. 2013 Berlin based Akim Monet was born in 1968 in Geneva (Switzerland). She studied Comparative Literature and Art History at Cornell University. While Monet had taken photographs in college and as a dealer documenting the installation of shows, it wasn’t until a trip to India in 1992 that the medium got under his skin. He was deeply affected by the power of the ancient temples and monuments that are still a vital part of daily life there and used photography as a way of processing what he was feeling. Yet when he saw his pictures developed and printed, he was disappointed by their snapshot quality. He found looking at the negative strips, though, much more akin to his actual experience of the places and became obsessed with finding a way to print them as negatives. With no formal training in photography, Monet cobbled together a homemade process—with tools picked up along his travels—of re-photographing projections of the negatives, so the final print would match the original negative. What the pictures share is an interest in duality that is underscored by the way Monet plays with idea of positive and negative in his printing technique. Part of the beauty and intensity of these photographs has to do with the convergence of opposites, of past and present. They stand sublimely poised in the space between. Colour is the first element that seduces in a Monet photograph. Molten oranges, rich blues, lurid greens and purples that a Fauvist would envy, saturate the visual. Then the sheer ornamented exuberance of his subject matter teases the eye with its baroque textures. Monet presents all this in reverse—that is, he prints directly what is on his negatives rather than inverting them into positive images. Doing this appeals to him both aesthetically and conceptually. First off, it’s how he’s able to achieve such an unexpectedly painterly and heightened palette. Looking at these photographs you do indeed viscerally sense the energy—the colors, smells, music—of his subjects. “The idea for Seeking Al-Tawhid came to me while thinking about the longstanding non-acceptance of depictions of humans and animals in Islamic art, and the resulting development of the Arabesque in which abstract geometry and stylized organic motifs are used to symbolize, within our manifest realm, that which is beyond manifestation. I pondered about a possible connection between the invention of this visual language, which leads the eye back and forth between the second and third dimension, and the practice of photography, in which the representation of three-dimensional subject matter is rendered on a flat surface. I discovered that the infinitely extensible designs in Islamic art, that are themselves made up of individual, self-replicating units have been interpreted as visual demonstrations of the singleness of God and his presence everywhere. They represent “unity in multiplicity” and “multiplicity in unity.” 82cm x 57cm

      Chiswick Auctions
    • Akim Monet (b.1968) Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens)
      Mar. 24, 2020

      Akim Monet (b.1968) Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens)

      Est: £1,000 - £1,500

      Akim Monet (b.1968) Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens) The complete set of eight pigment prints in colours, 2007, each signed and numbered from the edition of 24 in pencil, on Photorag Cotton Watercolour paper, published by Laumont Editions, New York, with full margins, with colophon, title and text pages, the sheets loose (as issued), contained in the original brown fabric-covered portfolio with printed title, portfolio 635 x 495 x 45mm (25 x 19 1/2 x 1 3/4 in) (8) (unframed)

      Forum Auctions - UK
    • AKIM MONET - Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens), 2007
      Jun. 07, 2018

      AKIM MONET - Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens), 2007

      Est: £1,000 - £1,500

      AKIM MONET - Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens), 2007

      Phillips
    • AKIM MONET - Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens), 2007
      Jan. 25, 2018

      AKIM MONET - Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens), 2007

      Est: £2,000 - £3,000

      AKIM MONET - Domus Adriani (Hadrian's Alexandrian Gardens), 2007

      Phillips
    • AKIM MONET - Temple
      Dec. 07, 2017

      AKIM MONET - Temple

      Est: £2,000 - £3,000

      AKIM MONET - Temple

      Phillips
    • AKIM MONET | Taj Mahal
      Oct. 16, 2015

      AKIM MONET | Taj Mahal

      Est: £2,000 - £3,000

      ilfochrome print face-mounted to plexiglass

      Sotheby's
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