Jimmy De Sana
27 November 2009 – 17 January 2010
Wlkinson
London
E2

De Sanas work was influenced by surrealism. He created unexpected juxtapositions between objects ans bodies, limbs and torsos, often in a tinted glow of artificially coloured light. He printed all his own work and used his friends as models and was a member of the generation of Artist-Photographers known for making rather than simply taking photographs, taking Man Rays idea of creating the photographic image from scratch. (Wilkinson)

I love De Sanas work I am drawn to them for their darkness and their playful yet sinister settings.

Jimmy De Sana delineated his love of objects and the exemplary lie of photography in an interview with Diego Cortez in 1986: “A photograph is how much you want to lie, how far you want to stretch the truth about the object. And, as photography is always based on real objects, it lends itself, by means of technique or manipulation, to explorations of what may appear to be an absence of reality, balancing on an ambiguous line between concrete and abstract space, between reality and illusion in a way that no other medium is able to do.” De Sana’s career began as it ended – in the exploration of those various balanced betweens. His catalogue raissone could be called “Juxtaposition, or The Erotic Life of Next to.”

The work could be split fairly evenly between the figurative and the more abstract, textured photographs. The latter had less effect on me, as I am first and always drawn to the figure.

I have posted about De Sana before but there wasnt an exhibit on at the time.
A Past Exhibit (which I missed of course): 101 Nudes