About Karin Westerfeld
Karin WESTERFELD / Karin FARRJONES on SL
Karin WESTERFELD, parisian, photographer – plastician, has got a German and Indian origins (Parsi from Bombay by her father’s grandma) and Breton by her mother, Karin herself was born in France. Since then, Karin Westerfeld did not stop to run after skies, stones and humans… though the 5 continents.
Demanding artist of the detail, she manage her images like a movie director. To get the best shade and light, she uses in order to restore an impression of mixed photograph/painting and translate its imaginary.
The last few years, she has tried out the video technics, inspired by a sound rhythm : she transposes there, her emotion, her colours… Her vision of the World with her own touch of mythological references and new beings, born from her perception.
The series of ”MEDUSES” Jelly fish represent the outcome of a passionate and paradoxical work which transposes the traditional picture into digital… “to give an open field to my creativity and imagination”.
From each and everyone of us emanate invisible lights and spirituels. It is those lighting episodes that I am trying to catch and to express which I write in odd universe of colours, substances and shapes…”
Sculptress of chromatic works, it then transforms the matters to lead to his metamorphoses, mirror effect which transcend the hidden face of the beings in chimerical creatures.
E X P O S I T I O N S
2007 Oct • YSL sur SECOND LIFE • elle Gallery • 3D Exhition • WORLD
2006 Nov • ART en CAPITAL* • NeObjectif • Grand Palais • Paris • FRANCE
2005 July / August • ART MONTE CARLO • Fairmont Hotel • MONACO
2005 July • HYPE GALLERY • Les rencontres d’ARLES • FRANCE
2005 April • GOOD FOR KARMA # 1 • Paris • FRANCE
2005 March / June • MEDUSES • Normandy Hotel • Paris • FRANCE
2004 Nov / Dec • HYPE GALLERY • Palais de Tokyo • Paris • FRANCE
2004 Jan • SALON COMPARAISONS* • NeObjectif • Paris • FRANCE
2003 – 2004 Dec / Mars • COHERENCE • Paris • FRANCE
2003 Nov • FESTIVAL PHOTOBIS / DIGITAL • Paris • FRANCE
2002 Jan / Fev • SALON COMPARAISONS* • NeObjectif • Paris • FRANCE
2001 Dec • ONE TOUCH OF RED • Paris • FRANCE
2000 June / July • KALEIDOSCOPE • Nucleus Studio • Istanbul • TURKEY
2000 July • Virtual Exhibition • on le web • INTERNATIONAL
1999 • CONSTRUIRE ENSEMBLE DES EMOTIONS • in all the FRANCE
1998 Nov • EROTIKA • Stuttgart • GERMANY
1997 Oct • BLUMEN • Tacheless • Berlin • GERMANY
1996 Sept • COULEUR & TRANSPARENCE • Paris • FRANCE
1995 June • WATERCOLOR PAPER / Made in PARIS • Tokyo • JAPAN
1994 Sept • FEMMES by Karin WESTERFELD • Paris • FRANCE
1994 June • COULEUR DE FEMME • for Amnesty International • FRANCE
1993 Feb / Oct • COULEUR A THEME • Prolab • Paris • FRANCE
1993 April / May • COULEUR DE FEMME • Galerie ARTEO • Paris • FRANCE
1992 March • TENDANCE • Backstage • Paris • FRANCE
1991 Feb / Mars • OMBRE & LUMIERE • Galerie ARTEO • Paris • FRANCE
* Sous le haut patronage du Président de la République et du Ministre de la Culture
> DIGITAL • Photo & Video Numerique Magazine N°47 > Portfolio • Interview / Portrait by Marilia Destot > extrait…
“Karin Westerfeld and numerical images: a passionate and paradoxical relation… this pictorial photographer of multiple talents finds it hard to slow her fascination for new technologies. She now gives free rein to her experiments in digital video and chromatics…
From the shock of colour saturated with exotic strange forms to the frontier of the psychedelic paroxysms of the seventies, “Pure delirium” at the crossroads of Pop Art and Op Art: “I like to mix techniques, to move back and forth between black and white photography and its digital form, blending my vision… without ever tiring of this third eye.”
See the entire article on : interview2003.pdf
