VLAAMSE MEESTERS
In het kader van het festival ‘Flemish Masters’ georganiseerd door de Vlaamse Overheid fotografeerde Le Duc hedendaagse versies van barokke voedselstillevens uit 17de eeuw. Hij cureerde en fotografeerde de tentoonstelling ‘Cokeryen’. Daarbij ging hij in dialoog met de barokke kunstschilder Frans Snijders (tijdgenoot van Rubens). Voor een magazine opdracht liet hij zich door Het Lam Gods van Van Eijck inspireren.
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Magirus #0 is about an encounter between the works of baroque painter Frans Snijders (1579-1657), food photographer Tony Le Duc (1961-present) – two masters of the culinary still life – and a 400-year-old cookbook.
This portfolio Magazine contains a magazine with large-sized photographs by Tony Le Duc, a booklet with 15 contemporary interpretations of baroque dishes and a gastronomic city map with 15 restaurants where you can taste these delicacies.
'Magirus' is derived from the Greek word for 'cook'
Le Duc’s warmly coloured still lifes are composed in chiaroscuro. Worthy of the Baroque, they sometimes feature half decaying flowers or herbs, or perhaps an artichoke depicted as a ruler. In other instances, lifeless poultry still wearing feathers, a goat’s head that looks you in the eye, a fly drinking pig’s blood. Baroque 2018.
Author(s): Jozef Schildermans Hilde Sels Hildegard Van de Velde Photographer(s): Tony Le Duc ISBN: 978 94 90028 89 3