VORTEX Photography by Olivier Calvez

Olivier CALVEZ likes to give a second life to raw materials, to reactivate collection elements in a new scenario.
Through the work produced, he increases a facet of matter and space.
These forms navigate between structures and chance to draw an intimate composition in volume, echoing a mental projection.
Olivier CALVEZ uses light to make art.
Self-taught, collector, lover of color...he collects forms to try to constitute the archiving of a space, to bring out a buried memory
and intimate to testify to the life of a human community, the relationship between man and his environment, the imprint and the testimony, which question
the identity and future of a territory.
Through elements of plastic waste (those that pollute our beaches and our oceans), oxidation, traces, the photographer alerts us to Our Ecological Footprint...
Born in 1959, passionate about photography, he trained in the image professions at the ETPA in Toulouse and assistant positions in odd jobs, he set up his photo studio in the Pays de Loire region and specialized in photography. industry for more than 30 years with customers in industry, the tertiary sector, services, local authorities....
Status of Artist Author Photographer.

art3f Nantes / March 2018.
Art Shopping Paris /Le carrousel du Louvre/ 19 to 21 October 2018.

Photo of oxidation, transformation of the material, wear of colors in nature.
And when the light is not there, creation in the photo studio of minimalist decorations of fragments of floors, in paper, paint, metal, pigments, accessories, with lighting that simulates the sun in backlight and the play of light. shadows that create the relief. Preparation of funds and composition with elements of collection, recovery. Assemblages of these elements giving them a new identity: composition in the shape of a flower on "bistro" oxidized, polution waste on the seabed for other shots. Self-portraits of face, hands and body contours in a "police" series and with his fingers in a composition called DIGITUS.....

• Nationality: FRANCE
• Date of birth : 1959
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary French Artists