Birdy Tg
Photography – Visual Art
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“Visual Poems and Dramas”

Photographer, painter, sculptor, author, composer and songwriter, Birdy Tg is a multimedia artist who especially enjoys to play with the interconnection, the permeability and the intercommunicability of his various art disciplines to serve his photography.

For him, nothing is definitively compartmentalized in Art. Birdy Tg wants to feel totally free inside of his artistic expression, with no genre limitation, and that’s why he prefers to speak about his Art of Visual Art better than Photography as he often gladly mixes painting, drawing and photography all together into his art.

The German Art Critic, Hans Herrmann, writes about Birdy Tg in 2014:

“Birdy Tg pushes further and breaks for well all the Photography limits we used to know before… His Art is unique in the World!.”

“…Birdy Tg’s style is very unique and strong, escaping to all traditional classifications, far from what is usually given to see in the nowadays tidal wave of images.
Meanwhile, if a classification is needed, his photography could be described as Lyrical, Poetic, Oneiric, Allegorical and Romantic.
He, himself, always describes his photographs as Visual Poems and Dramas.

Whatever, we are in presence of a body of artwork, in no way coincidental, but extremely meticulous and thought, and which makes think.
Each of the smallest details, even the most hidden ones, provides yet more evidences to serve the underlying philosophical comment. Most of his artworks are stuffed of coded messages but also of a bunch of literature, painting, cinema, photography references and work as a true treasure hunt for those who want to go further…
There is for sure the prime impact of the skill then always the possibility to dive deeper in Birdy Tg’s endless world…

…Birdy Tg uses a lot of different photography techniques, drawing and paintings that he patiently mixes in very large format frescoes. Some of his most recent works include more than 800 photographs in a single artwork which required over several thousands hours to produce.
Those large photographic « collages » use the most recent techniques of post-production to create what he describes as « Virtual Realities »:
« I want the viewer to be in front of a scene, of course virtual, but, made of hundreds small realities all linked together, it finally soon appears as a whole true and authentic entity, telling the story I want to lead the viewer in.»
(Birdy Tg)

His photography often plays with a rich palette of dark tones and focused light in a very elegant way, his aesthetics being not without reminding the classic Japanese Art by the whole aestheticism but also for the rigour of the global construction of the artwork.
His Art expression is definitively modern and contemporary but I personally get the feeling that he could touch any style with brio thanks to an obvious very tough classical art background. This is what I had the chance to confirm again when very recently seeing his latest Serie “In the Garden of God and the Devil, I discovered new astonishing works in which he could so easily mix without contradiction Baroque and Caricature Art, Surrealism and Minimal Art in the most natural way.

With no contradiction, there is in Birdy Tg, all of the fiddly profusion and the creative madness of Richard Dadd, but also all of the German Romanticism, inside his palette, the lights ripping out the obscurity, the characters facing the elements and their own fears, the strong print of Literature and Philosophy, of the Irrational and the Utopia… It’s certainly not an hazard if Joseph Anton Koch and Birdy Tg, both, give worship to Dante Alighieri and his “Divine Comedy”, if Birdy Tg Pays homage to Eduard Biermannn with is work “Salvation”, if we feel so well the Caspar David Friedrich ‘s atmospheres in “A Secret Universe” or “The Secret of Cloud Cities”… One can’t do otherwise than thinking about the “Oeuvre Totale” (“Total Magnum Opus”) concept so close to Philipp Oto Runge’s heart when Birdy Tg champions a visual art work which makes one and only one with his music, his writing, his painting, his sculpture in lauding: “Art is One and Indivisible. All is One and one is All” (Birdy Tg – 2014).

It’s also very interesting to notice furthermore than Birdy T’g’s work often refers to numerous German Artists as the expressionist Franz Von Stuck to whom Birdy Tg pays tribute in “Eine berlinische Nostalgie” (“Remember Berlin” Serie), or the Scpultors Rudolf Belling in “Drawing the Line” (“Time Flies” Serie) and Waldemar Grizmek for who he devotes the “Ages of Life” full Serie.

Birdy Tg’s artistic expression is definitively modern and contemporary. I personally have the feeling that he could tackle any style, making it His Style, with verve thanks to his obvious wide artistic culture. This is precisely what I had the chance to confirm when I recently saw for the first time his new Serie: “In the Garden of God and the Devil” in which I discovered brand new art works in which he has mixed with success and no contradiction at all, so many different styles together as Baroque, Caricature, Surrealism, Minimal Art, in the most natural way.
There are this permanent ferment, this incessant renewal, this constant fresh air, this perpetual questioning, this endless risk-taking and meanwhile this undisputable style homogeneity. Everything hit the target, as it happens.

This is most surely what makes Birdy Tg’s style so unique…”

(Hans Herrmann – Art Critic – Germany 2014)

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In 2013, after several solo and group exhibitions in France, Germany, Luxembourg and USA, he publishes his first photography book « Drawing my Line » including more than 200 of his photo works.

2014 is the year he decides to devote for making his ambitious project about the Dante Alighieri «Divine Comedy», a reality.

It is obviously for him the opportunity to pay a glowing tribute to the Master of Italian literature but also to the wonderful French illustrator and painter Gustave Doré and, further, to the « Genius above all» fashion designer: Yves Saint Laurent.

From a very contemporary and innovative angle, Birdy Tg draws a daring but so real parallel between the « Inferno », the « Purgatory » and the « Paradise » and the Fashion World.

Beginning the Serie as a thriller, this is on an alternately caustic, bittersweet or tender chronicle that Birdy Tg expands with philosophical undertones this intriguing and wide serial of photographs called « In the Garden of God and the Devil »:
Young anonymous Fashionistas in search of a fulfilling societal identity, young Models in quest for recognition, fame and eternity but also well-known Fashion Creators of various destinies are staged under the characters of Dante, Virgil, Beatrice, St Bernard, angels and demons, the Devil or God…

“…Whoever they are, one day deified, the other crucified, fragile chimeras digested by inner demons, shooting stars of artificial paradises,
Whoever we are, forgotten orphans or fallen angels of fame,
We are all gold fishes, turning adrift in the inexorable dark currents of limbo, trapped in the fish bowl of a pitiless mediatic and business society of appearances and collusions, just able to dream about an unexpected walk of fame to Paradise before being definitively drawn down in Inferno…” (Birdy Tg)

This serial of photographs successively combines a lot of photography technics and styles, from the most spontaneous ones like “street and journalism photography”, passing by the more elaborated and artificial “studio production” to end by large “photo-composition” lyrical, oneiric and allegorical frescoes of hundreds and hundreds of photographs and work hours, (Birdy Tg’s special expertise field), by which he composes his visual poems echoed by his music and his words.
This has also been the opportunity to experiment and implement for the occasion a new 3D photographic technic Birdy Tg has patiently developed to make some of his photographs true three-dimensional sculptural images.

In 2014, Birdy also works in parallel:
- On the next instalments of the Serie he began in 2012: “Time Flies”, about the concomitance and simultaneity of Space-Times, of the Past, the Present, and the Future.
- On a new Serie called “Captive Souls”: Prisons don’t need to have thick walls and sturdy bars and locks to be effective. Psychological suffering can be even worst and its constitutive jail only made of wall of papers… This “very design” photography Serie is based on an unusual work of textures and 3D geometrical patterns.
- On his “Buds of Life”, “In those Peaceful Moments”, “Market Square Heroes” and “Botany” Series that he will also show at Celina Gallery for his solo exhibition in November.

2014 is also the second consecutive year he is one of the very few international photographers to be selected for the International Paris Photography Art Fair where he will show for the very first time his new Serie “In the Garden of God and the Devil”.
In November 2014, his second book of Photography: “ I Hold My Line” – 370 Pages in 2 volumes is published.
For 2015, he announces he will carry on with his “In the Garden of God and the Devil” Serie and will issue a new book totally dedicated to the Serie including a lot of his texts and some surprises, he said but is still keeping the secret on. Installations and sculptures will be part of the coming events.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS in 2014/2015
SOLO EXHIBITIONS

- "1st International Paris Photography Art Fair – La 4ème Image - "Drawing my Line" - Paris - FRANCE 2013
- "2nd International Paris Photography Art Fair" - La 4ème Image – Exposition personnelle: "In the Garden of God and the Devil" - Paris - FRANCE 2014
- "Celina Art Gallery" – « I Hold My Line » SOLO Exhibition - Luxembourg 2014
- "Galerie 44 Kléber" - Solo Exhibition - Paris - FRANCE 2015

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

- “The Story of the Creative.” International Fine Art Exhibition - New York City Gallery and Long Island City Gallery - NYC - USA 2013
- "Herrmann Gallery" - Drachselsried - Allemagne 2013
- "Arte Fotografica" - Lisboa - Portugal 2013
- "Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art - Group Exhibition - NYC - USA 2013
- "1st International Paris Photography Art Fair – La 4ème Image Galerie Arts Factory - Paris - FRANCE 2013
- Celina Art Gallery - « Ar(t)Chi Textures » - Group exhibition - LUXEMBOURG 2014
- "2nd International Paris Photography Art Fair" - La 4ème Image – Galerie Arts Factory - Paris - FRANCE 2014
- Galerie Arts Factory - "Les artistes de la Galerie" Paris - FRANCE 2014 & 2015
- Soirée des Ambassadeurs - Exposition - Reuil-Malmaison FRANCE 2015
- « Exposure » by See.me - Le Louvre - Paris - France 2015

PRESS PUBLICATIONS, BOOKS & MONOGRAPHIES

- Arte Fotografica Magazine N°58 – Front Cover and special personnal 12 Pages Portfolio - Portugal
- « Drawing My Line » Birdy Tg Monographie - Livre de 212 pages – 2013 – Birdyland Editions
- Platform 58 Art Magazine N°73 - England
- Platform 58 Art Magazine N°75 - England
- Platform 58 Art Magazine N°77 - England
- Platform 58 Art Magazine N°81 – England
- « I Hold My Line » Birdy Tg Monographie - Livre de 380 pages en 2 volumes – 2014 – Birdyland Editions
- Luxemburger Wort : Birdy Tg Solo Exhibition « I Hold My Line » by Art Critic Nathalie Becker ( « Birdytg : Real visual Poems » ) – November 26, 2014.
- « Exposure » Artists - Book - 2015
- "In the Garden of God and the Devil" - Roman de Birdy Tg - à paraître Mars 2016
- "In the Garden of God and the Devil" - Monographie d'art - Birdy Tg: Photographie, peinture, sculpture. A paraître 2016

WEBSITES

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www.birdytg.com
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