About Jean-Claude Chevrel

Self-taught by everything from optico-electronics specialist, computer scientist, salesman, economist, lecturer, manager or director of companies, and now artist photographer, Jean-Claude Chevrel relentlessly turns towards new horizons, with new thirsts of discoveries, and especially of meetings and sharing. "Fell in photography" at the dawn of his 6 years seeing his father develop himself after the war, the few dandruff family, first camera a year later, the fascination of the image has never left . Having never practiced professionally, allowed him to maintain his total freedom of expression, and always follow his desires. Photography of travel, nature, portraits, landscapes, reportage, expression, on multiple themes, have led in recent years, to a much more abstract art, but exploiting in an unusual way, elements of the daily and leading to another vision of these realities. The fact of not modifying or retouching in post-processing these images is for the author, another way to interfere in the element in question ... or to go behind in an imaginary journey, an odyssey through the realities. Series "Glass" or "The unlikely soul of glass" Created series (for and at) International Festival of Glass Arts (Honfleur 2015) Between the visible and the invisible, there is a bridge, a passage, the time of a flash, the moment of a vision: it is the transvisible ... See, under the appearance of a representation, another reality. We are in the transvisible. Look beyond seeing. For Pablo Picasso who spoke this difficulty, from another angle, "It would be necessary to be able to show the paintings which are under the table". (Serge Venturini, poet) The idea was to discover an unknown aspect of the glass, a particular glass, already shaped by other artists, and to allow the visitor to travel inside these works. After a long research and shaping work (creation and manufacture of accessories and development of an innovative personal technique), the ultimate surprise and reward for the photographer arrived at the shooting: an extraordinary journey in an unsuspected world, reminiscent of childish kaleidoscopes! The prints were made on matte fine-grained canvas allowing a deeper black of the image and dematerializing its surface. All to share even more dream and transmission ...