Candysticks - when art meets fashion
7. May 2008 Art & Fashion
By accident I just flipped through the portfolio of Berlin based photographer Betti Fiegle.
…and when I looked at her “sticky faces” series there was one photo that irretrievably reminded me of on of Levi van Veluw´s early artpiece “Candystick”.
Van Veluw´s photos are self-portraits, drawn and photographed by himself in a one-man-process, not to be considered as portraits but as artpieces that document the history of a short creative process with the artist shifting between the entities of subject and object. Betti Fiegle intelligibly translates the motive into the genre of fashion photography, brings lighting and make up to perfection and stages the candystick-theme in a joyous and bright mood.
I didn´t ask, but I guess, photographer Betti Fiegle got inspired by the art of young, Dutch artist Levi van Veluw.
Fortunately, there´s no question about “who did it better” - the genres are different, the staging too and while van Veluw prepares his work for exhibitions and gallery’s, Betti Fiegle probably predominantly does for advertising, magazines and books.
The left photo is from Levi van Veluw, the left one from Betti Fiegle.
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