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Monster of Puppets

Glimpse at second Glitch: The Failure

180 x 100 cm

60 x 60 cm

Lord of Butterflies

Angels Never Die

180 x 120 cm

81 x 54 cm

Light Out of Darkness

Trapped 2: Chronicle of a Scheduled Death

250 x 120 cm

60 x 40 cm

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About His Art 

Photographer, painter, sculptor, author, composer and songwriter, Birdy Tg is a multimedia artist who especially enjoys playing with the interconnection, permeability and intercommunicability of his various art disciplines in the service of his photography.

Per lui, nulla è definitivamente compartimentato nell’Arte. Birdy Tg vuole sentirsi totalmente libero nella sua espressione artistica, senza limiti di genere, ed è per questo che preferisce parlare della sua Arte di Arti Visive piuttosto che di Fotografia, poiché spesso mescola volentieri pittura, disegno e fotografia insieme nella sua arte. Il critico d’arte tedesco Hans Herrmann scrive di Birdy Tg nel 2014:

“Birdy Tg goes further and breaks, once and for all, the Photography limits we used to know before… His Art is unique in the World!.”
“…Birdy Tg’s style is very unique and powerful, escaping all traditional classifications, far from what we are usually given to see in today’s tidal wave of images.
Meanwhile, if a classification is needed, his photography could be described as Lyrical, Poetic, Oneiric, Allegorical and Romantic.
He himself always describes his photographs as Visual Poems and Dramas.
In any case, we are in the presence of a body of work in no way coincidental, but extremely meticulous and thoughtful, and which makes one think.
Each of the smallest details, even the most hidden ones, provides yet more evidence to serve the underlying philosophical comment. Most of his artworks are filled with coded messages but also with a wealth of literature, painting, cinema and photography references, and work as a true treasure hunt for those who want to go further…
There is, for sure, the prime impact of the skill, then always the possibility to dive deeper into Birdy Tg’s endless world…
…Birdy Tg uses many different photography techniques, drawings and paintings that he patiently mixes into very large-format frescoes. Some of his most recent works include more than 800 photographs in a single artwork, which required several thousand hours to produce.
Those large photographic « collages » use the latest post-production techniques to create what he describes as « Virtual Realities »:
« I want the viewer to be in front of a scene, of course virtual, but made of hundreds of small realities all linked together; it finally soon appears as one true and authentic entity, telling the story I want to lead the viewer into.»
(Birdy Tg)
His photography often plays, in a very elegant way, with a rich palette of dark tones and focused light, his aesthetics not without recalling classic Japanese Art, through its overall aestheticism but also through the rigour of the global construction of the artwork

With no contradiction, there is in Birdy Tg all the fiddly profusion and the mad creative genius of Hieronymus Bosch or Richard Dadd, but also all of German Romanticism: in his palette, the lights ripping out the obscurity, the characters facing the elements and their own fears, the strong imprint of Literature and Philosophy, of the Irrational and Utopia… It is certainly not by chance if Joseph Anton Koch and Birdy Tg,
both, worship Dante Alighieri and his “Divine Comedy”; if Birdy Tg pays homage to Eduard Biermann with his work “Salvation”; if we feel so well Caspar David Friedrich’s atmospheres in many works like “A Secret Universe” or “The Secret of Cloud Cities”… One cannot do otherwise than think of the “Oeuvre Totale” (“Total Magnum Opus”) concept so close to Philipp Otto Runge’s heart when Birdy Tg champions a visual artwork that becomes one and the same with his music, his writing, his painting, his sculpture, proclaiming: “Art is One and Indivisible. All is One and one is All” (Birdy Tg – 2014).
It is also very interesting to note, furthermore, that Birdy Tg’s work often refers to numerous German artists, such as the expressionist Franz Von Stuck, to whom Birdy Tg pays tribute in “Eine berlinische Nostalgie” (“Remember Berlin” Series), or the sculptors Rudolf Belling in “Drawing the Line” (“Time Flies” Series) and Waldemar Grzimek, to whom he
devotes the full “Ages of Life” Series.
Birdy Tg’s artistic expression is definitely modern and contemporary. I personally feel that he could tackle any style, making it His Style, with verve, thanks to his obviously wide artistic culture. This is precisely what I had the chance to confirm when I recently saw for the first time his new Series: “In the Garden of God and the Devil”, in which I discovered brand-new artworks where he has mixed, with success and with no contradiction at all, so many different styles together—Baroque, Caricature, Surrealism, Minimal Art—in the most natural way.
There is this permanent ferment, this incessant renewal, this constant breath of fresh air, this perpetual questioning, this endless risk-taking, and meanwhile this indisputable stylistic homogeneity. Everything hits the target, as it happens.
This is most surely what makes Birdy Tg’s style so unique…”
(Hans Herrmann – Art Critic – Germany 2014)
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In 2013, after several solo and group exhibitions in France, Germany, Luxembourg and the USA, he publishes his first photography book, « Drawing my Line », including more than 200 of his photo works.
2014 is the year he decides to devote to making his ambitious project about Dante Alighieri’s « Divine Comedy » a reality. It is obviously for him the opportunity to pay a glowing tribute to the Master of Italian literature, but also to the wonderful French illustrator and painter Gustave Doré and, further, to the « Genius above all » fashion designer: Yves Saint Laurent.

From a very contemporary and innovative angle, Birdy Tg draws a daring but very real parallel between the « Inferno », the « Purgatory » and the « Paradise » and the Fashion World.
Beginning the Series as a thriller, it is through an alternately caustic, bittersweet or tender chronicle that Birdy Tg expands, with philosophical undertones, this intriguing and wide serial of photographs called « In the Garden of God and the Devil »:
Young anonymous fashionistas in search of a fulfilling social identity, young models in quest of recognition, fame and eternity, but also well-known fashion creators of various destinies, are staged under the characters of Dante, Virgil, Beatrice, St Bernard,
angels and demons, the Devil or God… “…Whoever they are, one day deified, the other crucified, fragile chimeras digested by inner demons,
shooting stars of artificial paradises, whoever we are, forgotten orphans or fallen angels of fame, we are all goldfish, drifting in the inexorable dark currents of limbo, trapped in the fishbowl of a pitiless media and business society of appearances and collusions, just able to dream of an unexpected walk of fame to Paradise before being definitively drawn down into Inferno…”
(Birdy Tg - 2014)
This serial of photographs successively combines many photography techniques and styles, from the most spontaneous ones like “street and photojournalism”, through the more elaborate and artificial “studio production”, to end with large “photocomposition” lyrical, oneiric and allegorical frescoes of hundreds and hundreds of
photographs and work hours (Birdy Tg’s special field of expertise), through which he composes his visual poems echoed by his music and his words.
This was also the opportunity to experiment with and implement, for the occasion, a new 3D photographic technique Birdy Tg has patiently developed to make some of his photographs true three-dimensional sculptural images.
In 2014, Birdy also works in parallel:
- On the next instalments of the Series he began in 2012: “Time Flies”, about the concomitance and simultaneity of Space-Times, of the Past, the Present, and the Future.
Birdy Tg reveals “Legacy Cells”, a new impressive very large artwork (280x120cm) including over 850 individual photographs.
Through this artwork he philosophically tackles the theme of transgenerational transmission of cultural and historical world heritage threatened by various societal and ecological events:
“Considering the increasing deterioration of climatic conditions, the numerous negligence and major accidents caused by humans, which are a final threat to the ecosystem and its inhabitants, some international scientists think of applying the “Panspermia” theory by shooting into space some human
genome fragments in the direction of other galaxies to preserve humankind by settling it on distant planets.
In the meantime, fragments of human culture have already been shot into space like a bottle in the open sea.
Some Japanese scientists have recently suggested combining those two hypothetical techniques to ensure eternity for Japanese culture, of which several whole sectors are, every day, more and more threatened by the evolution of Japanese society itself.

Japan, folded back on itself for centuries, succeeded in preserving its culture and its precious originality. Unfortunately, nowadays climatic events, but also technological processes as well, with the dangers they generate through their mistakes, endanger the country, from culture down to the family unit which was, for a while, until now, still adamantly protected.
“Legacy Cells” prefigures what could be, in a way, this new space Noah’s Ark.
It would carry within it the very essence of what Japan is: its foundations, its moral and cultural values, its history through the centuries, from the samurai era to the atomic bomb disasters of Nagasaki and Hiroshima or the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. All the elements that built the sacred link of Japanese society, each of the symbols of unity and uniqueness...”
(Birdy Tg -Legacy Cell 2014)
- On a new Series called “Captive Souls”:
“Prisons don’t need thick walls and sturdy bars and locks to be effective. Psychological suffering can be even worse, and its constitutive jail, for a while, is only made of walls of paper…”
(Birdy Tg – 2014)
This “very design” photography Series is based on an unusual work of textures and 3D geometrical patterns.
- On his “Buds of Life”, “In those Peaceful Moments”, “Market Square Heroes” and “Botany” Series that he will show for the first time at Celina Gallery – Luxembourg,
for his solo exhibition in November 2014.
“This is the way for me to keep in mind that I still am a true photographer…” he jokes. “A very simple shot has the same primordial importance to me as a complicated composition, as long as it is able to express my emotions and/or to convey the message I want to express. For instance, in my visual series “Market Square Heroes”, I want to tell how much I was impressed by those “everyday people” that I met at a Cambodian market who were, in fact, the most deserving people I had the chance to meet in 2013. I wanted to pay tribute to those wonderful people, glorious heroes of their everyday life. My heroes!: Simple people with no kind of artifice, no kind of moral decline, no kind of trick, only relying on their own courage, their work, their loyalty, their deep respect for others, their huge love for their family and country; humble people with no money at all but giving, every day, the best of themselves to move forward with their hard life; beautiful people trying to extricate themselves from all the difficulties they inherit when they are born with nothing else than a beating heart. They own so little but are spontaneously ready to share it with you; how far have we gone from those fundamental human values! …” (Birdy Tg – 2014)
During his solo show at Celina Gallery – Luxembourg, Birdy Tg will also show the very first artworks of a new visual series called “Remember Berlin”. This visual series is very important to him because it is closely related to the new novel of the same title he has begun to write: a great 60-year epic about the tragic fate of a whole family,
decimated, torn and scattered all over the world from Buenos Aires to Tokyo, via New York City, Paris, Moscow and, of course, Berlin, victim of the madness of some political
officials who threw, by fire and sword, the whole world into barbarism and inhumanity, with the sole aim of satisfying their own lust for power. 2014 is also the second consecutive year he is one of the very few international photographers selected for the International Paris Photography Art Fair, where he will show for the very first time his new Series: “In the Garden of God and the Devil”.

The famous art critic, Nathalie Becker, writes in the Luxemburger Wort (Luxembourg national newspaper) about Birdy Tg:
“True Visual Poems: Birdy Tg shows his very unique and powerful style at the Celina Gallery (see the full press article: November 26, 2014): “True visual poems, strong and unusual artworks, processed as freeze frames…; oneiric, baroque, surrealist frescoes…; with an incredible luminist and metaphorical style, Birdy Tg establishes himself as a genius conjurer who leads the viewer into the story he wants to tell him..” (Nathalie Becker – 2014)
On October 28, 2014, his second photography book, “I Hold My Line”, 380 pages in 2 volumes, is published.
“This book is for me the necessary statement of two full years of non-stop work” (Birdy Tg – 2014). For 2015, he announces he will carry on with his “In the Garden of God and the Devil” Series and will publish in 2016 a new photography book totally dedicated to the whole Series, including many of his texts, novel extracts and poems, but also some surprises, such as, for instance, a whole part dedicated to deciphering the numerous codes used by Birdy Tg in his encoded artworks. Famous French writer, novelist and essayist Vincent Laisney is entitled to write the preface for this new book.
At the 3rd International Photography Paris Art Show, October 2015, Birdy Tg makes the public presentation of his most incredible artwork to date: “Lux Ex Tenebris”, a true world record and technical achievement, including over 2200 individual photographs (250x120cm in native format, 300dpi, 16 bits, file over 50Go). Belonging again to the “In the Garden of God and the Devil” series and describing “the exit from Hell and the arrival on the Purgatory beaches”, according to Dante Alighieri’s “Divine Comedy”, it is a tribute to the famous French Couture House GIVENCHY and its talented designer, Mr Riccardo Tisci. It required over 2500 hours of constant work from Birdy Tg.
In front of “Lux Ex Tenebris”, the French art critic Eric Vivier, who knows Birdy Tg’s art well, states: “… Birdy Tg is undoubtedly the leader of the diegetic and lyrical conceptual art movement for Photography…” (Eric Vivier – 2015)
In 2016, Corridor Elephant Editions announce the publishing house will issue a set of 7 monography books about Birdy Tg’s Visual Work and Literature over the next 5 years.
First volume: “Echoes of Outer Voices and Subtle Clues” will be issued by the end of 2017. It includes over 100 of his photographs and paintings and many extracts from his novels, poems and philosophical essays.
Regarding this major project and its importance to the artist, Birdy Tg decides he will decline all exhibitions for the next 2 years (until November 2017), except a major retrospective show with “Arts Factory Gallery” from December 2016 to February 2017, scheduled long ago.
By November 2017, Birdy Tg should also unveil several new artworks belonging to the new visual series: “L’Opéra Fabuleux”.
Written by Sandrine Gulian – Author Biographer –France October 2016

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