Bruno Houdayer

Artistic approach The objective of my art: "To offer serenity, peace and energy... ». "To install between the images and the spectators a strong but soothing vital resonance."
 "To offer a meditative experience and a multi-sensory journey with the audience.... " " To make discover a photography in suspension between the figurative and the abstract...". A manifestation of harmony and emotion, his creations reveal our daily life under new balances and movements. It presents our environment in a subtle and minimalist way through a vibratory, graphic and colourful representation. A pictorial vision of photography He uses photography as a raw material, a permanent work of observation and research on the light, texture and composition of his images. A childhood encounter with visual magic: a first darkroom at the age of 6, discovered by chance the magic of a first darkroom in her grandparents’ house. Randomly from a keyhole on the wall of a large closet where he liked to hide, there were projected inverted, diffuse and dancing images... Sources of inspiration A great fascination with nature and all its manifestations, sacred art and architecture. In love since his childhood with light and the colours of Spain, he moved to Barcelona from 2009 to 2012 to pursue his work and research with the SOFT (work on optical fuzzy light) and CONCRETE WAVE and SEA SKY series. Works by Klein, Rothko and Kandinsky were one of the sources of energy that nourished his obsessive search for perfect aesthetics and geometry. His mediums the Hasselblad medium format with digital back: his preferred image format is mainly the square, not cropped. the telephoto lens. "it is for me a long channel through which it allows itself to be revealed the essence of a space." A personal quest: "to put my art at the service of actions for well-being and well-being..." 
Sensible and interested in Energy in all its forms, he has been working for the past 10 years as a director/photographer alongside Marie-Dominique Bleuler, Qi Gong teacher, on the "Heart of Hands" project for the transmission of the Art of Breathing and Mudras: gentle gymnastics for hands and brain (maintaining the flexibility of the hands & 
Stimuler plasticity of the brain to promote calm at all ages of life. They work with schools, local authorities, associations, companies and retirement homes...