General information

Exhibitions

- Galerie virtuelle (Virtual Gallery) on Internet . www.groupe-quanta.net.

- Their last exhibition was their participation in the second international biennal exhibition of Photography and visual arts which
happend in the cultural center "Les Chiroux (17th october- 28th november 1999)

Artistic process

Most of the members of this group met during the Potography evening classes.
They wanted to create a reflexion group to promote their works.
Their aim was to create a place of reflexion and promotion, they decided to meet twice a month to share critical analysis.Beyond traditional analogical images ; Quanta explores the numerous hidden facettes of photography, putting the emphasis on different plastic signs (colour-form-texture) free from any iconological message, mearningful by themselves.More than hundred years after painting, photography is now breaking free to tranform light into art consciousness.

Extract from of the Quanta group's text

In physic, the quanta is the smallest amount of energy.
Since 93 it has also been the name of a Liège photography movement whieh was born during the " Rencontre International de la photo à Arles "

The main line of force of this group is to work on the photographic medium and on plastic meaning.
Concretely, the mouvement is organised around three priorities:

1-The basic idea is the elaboration of a personal photography.
The aim is to create a place where to analyse works by exchanging points of view, discussing artistic process and exploring the medium.

2-They also want to make of Quanta a place of reflexion on the role of photography and its links with contemporary art.
Quanta is a place of reflexion- research and production-

3-The third pool is to distibute works : apart from personal exhibition, they try to organise collective exhibitions to express the theoretical and artistic research of the movement.

Extract from the text " When the photography free itself "of JM Klinkenbberg

Throught their work Quanto intends to:

-stress the role of light as a raw material in photography
-stress the autonomy and the dynamism of any material, the original in the ultimate material
-stress the role of a theoretical and speculative approach in photography.The works of the Quanta group's members are so different that looking at them too frickly, you could wonder wether they have a common intention and practice.
But this apparent dispersion cames from the fact that each of the members, privileges sometimes one of another particular aim of the group.
It also comes frpm the fact that they want to explore different possibilities.

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