Photographer
CURRENT & NEXT EXHIBITION
USA / Miami / 05 – 10 December / Miami Art Basel-Context / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
BELGIUM / SPA / Every week-end December 23 / Be Arty Be Sweety / Art’n Pepper Gallery
FRANCE / Paris / 23 November 2023 / Opening @ Pink Gallery Paris
FRANCE / Lille / 09 – 12 March / Lille ArtUP / Galerie Métamorphoses
BELGIUM / Spa / April 29 – 30 / 20 year’s anniversary @ Art’n Pepper Gallery
USA / New-York / May 23 / Group Show / Nicolas Auvray – Galerie l’Atelier
GERMANY / Bade-Wurtemberg / 4 – 7 May / Art Karlsruhe / ArtBoxBerlin
FRANCE / Arles / 04 – 14 May / Festival Européen de la Photographie de Nu
BELGIUM / Spa / June 3 – 4 / Vénus Safari Launch and signature weekend / Art’n Pepper Gallery
USA / The Hamptons Fine Art Fair / 13 – 16 July / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
BELGIUM / Spa / 03 June – 30 June / Solo Show with Christophe de Fierlant / Art’n Pepper Gallery
BELGIUM / Knokke-le-Zoute / 04 August / Opening Show and Signature Vénus Safari / Atelier VO2MAX Gallery
FRANCE / Arles / 03 July – 24 September / Les Rencontres Photographiques @ Tristans Gallery
SPAIN / Ibiza / 09 September / Vénus Safari / Les Terrasses
SPAIN / Ibiza / 10 September / Vénus Safari / Can Quince
USA / New York / 20 – 24 September / AAF / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
THE NETHERLANDS / Ooisterwijk / 17 September – 22 October 2023 / Solo Show / Gallery Van Dun
BELGIUM / Spa / Sunday 24th September / Meet and Greet / Art’n Pepper Galerie
FRANCE / Reims / September 23 / Solo Show / La Galerie by Romaric Segalen
GERMANY / Berlin – Timmendorfer Strand / 30 September -November 04 / Solo Show / ArtBoxBerlin
BELGIUM / Namur / 11 – 19 November 23 / Antica-Fine Art Fair / Leonhard’s Gallery
USA / Miami / 05 – 10 December / Miami Art Basel-Context / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
BELGIUM / Spa / 02-31 March 2024 / Solo Show with French Sculptor Sylvie Mangaud / Art’n Pepper Galerie
FRANCE / St Tropez / 30 March – April 2024 / Solo Show / Galerie Paul Janssen
USA / New-York / March 2024 / Solo Show / Nicolas Auvray Galerie
Eric is a Belgian artist born in 1965. He gained a Degree in Photography from INFAC, Brussels in 1987. Since then he has been a fashion photographer working with many of the top houses. Chopard, Elle, Marie-Claire, L’Oréal, Levi’s, Coca Cola, Virgin, Saab, Delvaux, Lowe Lintas and Ogilvy are some of his clients.
Among other distinctions, his photography for the Saab cabrio 9-3 campaign was awarded the Silver Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival. Eric is set apart from many of his colleagues by his way of shunning technical artifice and working in natural light. This results in soft, velvety, almost painterly images.
In his artistic works, he captures women’s essence and soul, transcending mere physical representation.
In Eric’s “AMNIOS” series of soul portraits the models appear in suspended animation, as if they were about to be born, and full of hidden secrets. This represents a new conceptual departure for Eric, who began as a fashion photographer, moving on to classic artistic nudes, now showing us the nude in the ethereal form. These forms are certainly beautiful, yet a membrane separates them from us: is it to hide, or protect? In person, these works are monumental in scale, adding to their sense of restrained power.
In the “NUDES” series, Eric uses only natural light, just as a traditional painter would do in their study. Using slow exposure speeds which allow the lens more time to capture each model’s unique character, he reveals a sense of the sublime femininity, which borders on abstraction. Eric’s nudes are the same, yet different. They are all beautiful, yet their differences and unique qualities are magnified. “NUDES” is a series that celebrates the human form.
For “PAINTERS”, Eric collaborates with a different painter for each photograph. More than 100 of them have been invited throughout Europe and the other continents. The artist paints the model in their own style, while Eric searches for attitudes, then he photographs the result. In this way, the Painters series represents a fusion of two artistic visions – something that’s not always easy to achieve, yet this series epitomizes a sense of cohesion and dynamic synchronicity.
His work is permanently exhibited in galleries in Paris, New-York, Berlin, Antwerp, Greenwich, London, Honfleur, Le Touquet, St Tropez, Amsterdam, Oisterwijk, Mauritius, Ibiza, Spa, Vevey.
Management Eric Ceccarini
Bart Van ElzenLeopoldstraat 45
2000 Antwerpen
Belgium
+32 3 226 28 80
+32 475 84 73 30
info@leonhardsgallery.com