Lux et Nox
Lux et Nox
Author: Bill Henson
Desc: Australian artist Bill Henson is a passionate and visionary explorer of twilight zones of the ambiguous spaces that exist between day and night nature and civilization youth and adulthood male and female. His photographs of landscapes at dusk of the industrial no-man's land that lies on the outskirts of our cities and of androgynous girls and boys adrift in the nocturnal turmoil of adolescence are painterly tableaux that continue the tradition of romantic literature and painting in our post-industrial age. The rich chiaroscuro the oscillating light and the masterful composition of his photographs map enigmatic states that escape rationalism's iron grip providing a much-needed antidote to a culture that increasingly looses itself in a numbing vortex of blinking screens and glittering surfaces.