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'Reflections of Paris' Archival print created and printed by Zacron at Lantern Studios is part of a series of works inspired 
by
both British and European locations. Zacron, whose elaborate and complex images have been repeatedly shown 
with work
by Sir Peter Blake, has made an astonishing collection of images that explore subjects in a way 
that is entirely new.

At a time when Blake was assembling his toy shop window (now in Tate Britain), Zacron made 'A window on London'; 
this elaborate collage-painting incorporated a real window with layered images and objects. The work was exhibited 
at the Royal Academy and purchased by Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, who admired Zacron's work.

'Reflections of Paris' follows the unique properties seen in the earlier work, in that it uses a window, 
door and facade as a working format.  Images are meticulously composed to describe Paris through layers of time, 
centering around a period
1880 to 1935.  Portrait heads of leading artists, writers and philosophers appear in a 
lower panel, superimposed over
a mural found in the Moulin Rouge.  A self-portrait by Vigee Le Brun (175 -1842) looks 
out from a window.  This artist, who was the toast of the French Royal court, renowned for her beauty, escaped 
Paris in a public carriage, disguised as a working
woman to escape the French Revolution.

Many stories and intrigues are embedded in this work which, while being a tribute to Paris, contains elements of social  
history, fashion, pathos and the atmosphere of the city streets as they appear today.

Zacron, who has extrensively explored many parts of Europe including Italy, Czeck Rebuplic, Sardinia and Holland, 
combines photography with drawing and painting, collage and printmaking in the studio workshops.  The artist's 
innovative use of the computer, to combine diverse media processes and imagery, has established its own place on 
the international art scene

 

 

Reflections of Paris' is a major work printed with lightfast pigment inks on heavy weight, acid-free rag etching paper,
104.4cm wide by 139.8cm high, is a special limited edition of 25.  Price £4500.00.

 

 

 

Crystal Theatre explores a manufactured environment, a place in another star system. The placing of objects in space 
relates to a ground plane set against a vaporous sky; the surface is perfectly flat - water, ice or glass - the reflections 
of objects are pristine, appearing to have little weight.

The images in this work are taken from a vast archive of objects combined with digital photography.  Some objects are
found in every-day life, yet it is their implied scale,
the way they are composed, their juxtaposition with a multiplicity of 
forms, that makes
a new believable reality.

In making Crystal Theatre, total emersion in this emerging world is an essential part of the process.  
There are references to past lives, old values, now preserved in a timeless landscape.  Where there once was a 
mechanism for recognising time, there
is now a reference to a face symbolic of day and the sun, 
yet the landscape is bathed in a constant luminous light.

The figures are androgynous clones; two appear as one in a unified persona. Their presence places you the observer, 
within the environment.
The third figure, encapsulated within an astronomical sphere, symbolises eternal sleep, life held 
in a suspension.  Planetary forms that appear to invade the atmosphere,
transform space in a new dimension that 
implies that seemingly recognisable objects
are vast and of cosmic proportions.

Crystal Theatre makes the statement that science-fiction is science fact; that anything you can imagine has an 
existance somewhere in the endlessness of the cosmos.
The work is also inspired by the remote viewing work 
carried out by Sunstreak
in the United States.

Entities held in a state of suspension with a highly tensile control are pictorially very different to work carried out 
for Led Zeppelin, yet there are elements in the graphic
control that existed in the Led Zeppelin III rock album cover,
(now polled one of the
most successful cover artworks in the world).

The sophistication of Zacron's art may have been less understood in 1970; however in the light of the artist's 
current productions, it is evident that these works are carving
a powerful new path in the manipulation of visual images

Zacron is a major British artist who combines digital disciplines with both traditional and progressive techniques to 
produce fine art archival edition prints.  Lantern Studios at Breckland Print produces the finest digital fine art in the country.

 

 

Christal Theatre is produced as a world limited edition of 100 prints. Each print  80.8 cm X 108.62 cm, is emboss-stamped 
to certify that it is fully archival
and produced by Lantern Studios. £695 00 

 

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