Icarus & Putto
photographs by Charles Orme

Galerie Maison Kasini
January 27th to February 20th, 2010
Reception: Saturday, January 30th, 3-5PM

“Charles Orme: Icarus & Putto” presents a group of work in which the artist enacts a series of fantasies, documented in photographs.
In the Icarus series, Orme re-enacts the Greek myth in his studio. The walls are painted like sky and are decorated with polyester clouds. Two box fans hang to the side. The artist is suspended, naked, in the middle of the composition in various states of ascension and plummeting. The photographs are tableaux vivants that explore the artists folly in rich colors and classical compositions.
In the Putto series, Orme presents himself as a cherub dangling from a sculptural cloud. “I was inspired to create a photographic series/performance that created entertaining conflict in the relationships between earthly and celestial bodies, gravity and loft, artifice and nature, and fantasy and reality.

(from gallery press release)