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SILVESTER Hans, photography, permanent artist of the Galerie Capazza since 2016

Close to nature, Hans Silvester has a passion for peoples living in symbiosis with it, but also for scarecrows. From his travels around the world, he brings back snapshots of an art that bear witness to the vitality of this art of the ephemeral, the very essence of folk art

Biography

Born in Lörrach, Germany in 1938.

He discovers himself a passion for photography when his parents offered him a camera.

Graduated from the School of Fribourg in 1955 he began immediately after his life as a traveler and photographer.

In 1962, he settles in Provence (France) but keep on travelling all over the world.

1964 is the departure point for a long journey all over the world with a reporting in South America for a charitable association. He settles in the United States for 6 months, then travel throughout Central America, Japan, Egypt, Portugal …

I 1965, he joined the Rapho photo agency.

He is a pet photographer, pigeons, Camargue wild horses, birds, cats and dogs in Greece islands .. but also the photographer of unique traditions such as bocce, kites, scarecrows …

Since the 80’s, Hans Silvester has given a new orientation to his work : militancy in favor of the environment. He then photographed all the Natural Park of Europe, denounced the ravages of the deforestation in Amazonia, published a report on the Calavon river called “the murdered river” and cared about deforestation in North America.

In the 2000’s, after travelling across the world, he focused on the original Africa, the cradle of humanity.

In 2004, he met the the Omo tribe in Ethiopia, in a practically untouched zone where today’s men and women carry on the traditional ways of life. He brings back a gallery of portraits.

To know more

One Month - One Artist is a monthly event to make you discover the artists of the gallery.

Find the one dedicated to Hans Silvester published in October 2019, to download here

Awards

- Officier dans l'ordre national français des Arts et des Lettres (2012)
- Prix du plus beau livre de l'année L'eau, entre Ciel et Terre, Éditions de La Martinière (2002)
- Prix du plus beau livre de l'année Les peuples de l'Omo, Éditions de La Martinière (1992)
- Aigle d'Or de la Foire du Livre de Nice (1976)
- Médaille de Bronze à Foire du livre de Leipzig, Allemagne (1975)

Selection of exhibitions (since 2004)

2021 Fenêtres dormantes – Portes au sommeil, Historical Center of Rousillon, Garden of the Ecomuseum of Ochre and Gallery L, Luberon

2020 Le torse d’une femme à la pureté d’un vase, grandes courbes simples d’un fruit désiré, Parcours d’art contemporain autour d’Auguste Rodin, 1 exhibition, 5 places, collective exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2019 Personal exhibition, Galerie Capazza, Nançay

2018 L'art de l'éphémère : Les Epouvantails, Abbaye de La Celle, Place des Ormeaux, La Celle, France

2016 Le Mur de la Réflexion, à Crocoparc Agadir, Morocco as part of the COP 22 de Marrakech
Les Hommes Fleurs, à CROCOPARC Agadir, Maroc

2015 Pétanque et jeu provençal, Galerie Retour de Voyage, l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Les Nuits photographiques de Pierrevert ( Alpes de Haute-Provence ) Focales en Vercors
Villard-de-Lans, Parrain de la 6e édition - France

2014 L'OEil en Seyne à la Villa Tamaris, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
Les jeunes bergers, Galerie Retour de Voyage, l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Les maisons des Benchs, Galerie Pascal Lainé, Ménerbes, France

2012 De la Provence d'hier à l'Afrique immémoriale, Château de Gordes, France
Le Japon, célébration du quotidien, Galerie Retour de Voyage, in collaboration with the Galerie Annie Lagier, l'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue

2011 Donga, Galerie DNR, L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France
Natural Fashion: Art & the Body, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa, Floride, États-Unis

2010/11 Marlborough Gallery, New York, États-Unis

2010 Look Again, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, États-Unis

2009/10 Galerie Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco

2009 Les filles de Mirabai, Galerie de l’Etrave, Thonon-les-Bains, France
Polka Galerie, Paris, France
Regards sur l'Eau, with Laurent Gayte, Jean-François Mutzig et Alain Gualina à Gréoux-les Bains, France

2008 Les peuples de l'Omo Bagiliba - 7th African Festival, Callian, Fayence et Seillans, France
Visa pour l’Image Le Grand Rex, Paris, France
The Angkor Photography Festival, Angkor, Cambodge
La Maison-près-Bastille, Paris, France

2007/2008 Tribus de l'Omo / Masques du Gabonau, Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu de Mantes-la-Jolie, France
Les filles de Mirabai, Château de la Tour d'Aigues, France

2007 Les photographes professionnels au Salon de la Photo, Paris Expo, Paris, France
Les filles de Mirabai, Château de la Tour d'Aigues, France
Les peuples de l'Omo, Galerie de la rue Lafayette, La Gacilly, France
11th festival of travel and adventure photography, Honfleur, France
Hans Silvester, Photographies, Tour Philippe Le Bel, Villeneuve-les-Avignon, France

2006 International Festival of Wildlife and Nature Photography, Montier-en-Der, France
Les tribus de l'Omo, Château-Musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer, France

2005 Hans Silvester, Photographies, Villa Tamaris Centre d'art, La Seyne-sur-Mer, France
Alguien nos mira (Collection photographique de la FNAC), MuViM, Valencia, Espagne

2004/05 Provence, hier, toujours, Maison René Char, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, France

2004 Images entre histoire et poésie (Collection photographique de la FNAC), La Conciergerie, Paris, France