Paul Blanca (c.1958) was a Dutch art photographer who entered the art world in the early 1980s with a surprisingly subversive self-portraits. The self-taught Blanca artscene contact with when he met with Eva Veldhoen, daughter of the famous Dutch painter Aat Veldhoen (1934). Acquainted with the artistic environment is a real eye-opener for Blanca and shortly after he started firing, first in color camera with a small screen but immediately after the shooting in B & W using a Hasselblad camera (6 x 6 cm).
In 1980 he met with the choreographer Hans van permanently recognized (1932), which is a photographer himself and has contributed a photo studio. Besides their common interest in art photography, Van permanent Blanca is also used in a dance called choreographies Pose in Blanca performed as a kick-boxer, he is practicing full contact sport from the age of 16 years, surrounded by a ballerina’s. Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) which is a close friend was very impressed with the self-portrait of Van Blanca permanently-and then introduced him to the New York high society (such as Keith Haring, Willem de Kooning, Japser Johns, Grace Jones … etc) which states ‘Paul Blanca. is competitor’ only. Art collector said Bill Katz in Color True Anthony Haden Guest’s – The Real Life Art World Blanca: “… he achieved a kind of poetry few artists have” .
Most Blanca’s self-portrait to deal with strong emotions and themes such as fear of violence, sadness, pain, aggression and sexuality to find lodginger devils. Diametric to the hard work, there are photographs of sensitive and delicate as it is called Mother and Son (favorite Mapplethorpe’s) who has described himself in a tender embrace with her mother, both fully naked, or portrait holding a newborn child in the air called Father and Son. In 1986 Blanca working on a book called Timing (1000 edition) featuring Dutch artists of the eighties and the pictures were accompanied by a poem Dalstra Koos (1950). For that touch the series Par la Pluie des Femmes (1989) model, he asks women to think about their most traumatic experience.Together with Hans Gieles and Francis Boeske from the gallery Vous Ici Etes de he produce Sangre Toro magnificent series in 1991 (see ‘Bull’s Blood’ below). During the time Blanca also began as a journalist for the weekly learning Amsterdam, Nieuwe REVU and Het Parool newspaper. He wrote about the cracks and re-explore their own boundaries, he began using his own, which causes addiction. Articles Nieuwe Revu for spiral arm is the starting point with the suspect in an attack on Rob Scholte in 1995 because “knowledge” grenades. Long silent, but in 2008 returned to the project ca Blancalled Mi Mattes photographing the gangmembers depending on the studio. purification
Portraits year seems to produce energy in a self-portrait
Over Blanca’s. In 1982 he photographed himself With Eelsholding six eels that live in the mouth (in the perception of disgusting animal), he looked into the world (the audience) with a resigned expression on his face when he thought “It really went” by scavengers fulfill his desire to perpetuate. In Selfportrait Blanca’s, Back with Mickey Mouse, the big picture in his back that was dropped with a sharp knife (razor blade) with his friends, tattoosartists, from Mickey Mouse with his thumb and smiled broadly when he said: “Continue the good work” , is the skepticism of the claim because the mouse to weep. In his Selfportrait Bull (1982) became Blanca, with its body painted disguished as bison and aggressive facial expressions, disturbed characters. By forming a penis in his left hand and his right hand gripping the handle, he was looking for pictures of poetic power strip. Blanca’s natural excessive self-portrait serves as a purifying agent and therefore he must lift all restrictions and norms.
Bull’s Blood
Blanca who lived and worked in Spain for two years (’90s), has, while there, became obsessed with bullfighting and continue with all ferias (local seasonal celebration) to take photos. To challenge Blanca themselves emotionally also participate in a bullfight, the bull is not correct, but with dangerous vacas (beef) £ 850. It appealed to him that when corrida (bullfight) has expired, bison meat served in restaurants but not done with the life-blood fluid, after all. Blanca investigate whether blood can be used as a silk-screen printing ink. Blood used for the treatment of de-port folio Sangre Toro, according to Blanca’s photos. Pressing the ink through the screen just does not make more than the color pink, and finally pulled 35”necessary to achieve the darkest tones in the picture, so it looks relieved. High point of the series on the outskirts of Blanca’s photoswork. To affecionades (people) it is a must, for opponents of bullfighting is also a monument of beauty.