Brooklyn Bridge (2012) - Tony Soulié

Tony Soulié - Brooklyn Bridge, 2012

Original work
Mixed media on photograph
Dimensions: 125 × 175 × 5 cm
Signed lower right
Excellent condition

Born in Paris in 1955, Tony Soulié is a French photographer, painter, sculptor and engraver, considered one of the major figures in contemporary art.

Since 1976, he has traveled the world, from the United States to Chile, from Ghana to South Korea, to Australia, feeding his work with the energy of the landscapes, cities and cultures he encounters. His travels constitute an essential source of his artistic language, where the image becomes at once memory, matter and territory of emotion.

Soulié's art is characterized by the fusion of disciplines: his photographs are not simple images, but poetic compositions, transformed by the addition of pigments, materials and pictorial gestures. This process gives each work a unique patina — his inimitable signature — and creates a powerful dialogue between photography and painting.

In Brooklyn Bridge, created in 2012, Tony Soulié revisits one of New York's most emblematic symbols. The Brooklyn Bridge, photographed in all its architectural dimension, becomes here the starting point of a composition that is at once urban, abstract and vibrant. The structure of the bridge blends with expanses of gray, touches of ocher, brown and red, creating a subtle tension between the architectural rigor of the city and the freedom of the pictorial gesture.

The deep red that runs across the lower part of the work brings an almost cinematographic visual intensity, while the pigments and traces of material disturb the photographic reading to give it a more sensitive and dreamlike dimension. The urban image then becomes a living surface, traversed by the memory of the place, movement and emotion.

Through this work, Tony Soulié does not only represent New York: he restores its energy, its vibration and its symbolic power. Brooklyn Bridge perfectly embodies his approach, between reality and abstraction, photography and painting, urban landscape and inner journey.

Details

Artist: Tony Soulié
Title: Brooklyn Bridge
Year: 2012
Type of work: Original work
Category: Painting
Technique: Mixed media on photograph
Signature: Signed lower right
Dimensions: 125 × 175 × 5 cm
Condition: Excellent