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Joseph Beuys, Cuma 1985 Robert Rauschenberg in Villa Volpicelli, Posillipo 1987 Francesco Clemente at Madre Museum 2006 McDermott & McGough and David Bowes at Villa Volpicelli, Posillipo 1986 Marina Abramovich, Galleria Morra 1975 Alberto Burri's Grande Cretto Vernissage, Museo di Capodimonte 1978 Dan Flavin Installation, Galleria Trisorio 1974 Hermann Nitsch, aktion n.45, Galleria Morra 1974 Joseph Beuys, Andy Warhol and Lucio Amelio, press conference 1980 Joseph Beuys, press conference 1980 Lucio Amelio and Andy Warhol, City Hall Cafè, Napoli 1980 Leopoldo Mastelloni, City Hall Cafè, Napoli 1980 Barry White/Piazza del Plebiscito - Souvenirs d'Italia series 2006 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1990 - 2010 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 1978 - 1985 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 1979 - 1985 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Untitled 2001 Landscape #1 2007 - 2009 Landscape #2 2007 - 2009 Landscape #4 2007 - 2009 Landscape #3 2007 - 2009 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 1998 - 2000 Untitled 2003 - 2009 16641664166... 2007 Untitled 2003 - 2009 Untitled 1985 - 2010 Untitled 2010 Roofs 1985 - 2010 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 Untitled 1982 - 1990 1969 Untitled 1987 - 2008 Untitled 1989 - 2008 "Indietro nel tempo" 1989 - 2008 Untitled 1989 - 1998 Set del film “Gorbaciòf” di Stefano Incerti, nella foto Toni Servillo 2009 Set del film “Armandino e il Madre” di Valeria Golino, nella foto Denis Nikolie. 2010 Set del film “Fuoco su di me” di Lamberto Lambertini 2004 Set del film “Il divo” di Paolo Sorrentino 2007 Acquapark 2007 Magic World 2010 Snoopy's rest 2 2007 Villaricca 2007 Franco, actor 2003 Franco, surgeon 2003 Pasquale, meccanico 2003 Vincenzo, pescivendolo 2003 Untitled (Naples, Via Partenope) 2010 Untitled (Naples, Via Nazario Sauro) 2010 Untitled (Naples, Marechiaro) 2010 Untitled (Trittico Via Caracciolo) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°1 (LA BELLA ‘MBRIANA) 2010 APPARIZIONE N°7 (LA BELLA CHIARA) 2010 Vedrai, andrà tutto bene - Donn'Anna 2008

Paul Thorel

APPARIZIONE N°5 (IL MARINAIO AMERICANO)

2010

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He now lives and works in Naples. In the Seventies he used to be a painter, but then he started his research and production of electronic images at the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel in Paris. Since 1981, he has been working with digital photography, building up a collection of subtle portraits of many different sizes; their main feature is to be never visible in their entirety and mainly focussed on the expression of the person portrayed, hence of the most evasive part of the self. His portraits start to appear in the international photography magazines and in European and American museums.
Since Nadar, portrait means a deep interaction between subject and object. By using a computer and overtaking the classic triangle eye-nose-mouth, Thorel dives in the natural environment of digital elaboration, aiming at a slow and dilated flaking process. They are black and white picture; where light sometimes slides on the net of lines, but also withdraws from it. There, on the surface, apparitions of the Neapolitan ghosts seem sometimes to materialize into the spectator’s eyes. The ghosts of the Neapolitan popular tradition - la bella ‘Mbriana, the American seaman, the Monaciello - can only live if there’s a relation with the viewers who have to activate and adjust their sight to perceive them.
 

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