os dias todos iguais, esses assassinos...

Carla van de Puttelaar nasceu em 1967 na cidade industrial de Zaandam, na Holanda.

Em 1996 graduou-se na Gerrit Rietveld Academie de Amesterdão e nesse mesmo ano recebeu o prémio Esther Kroon, a que se sucederam vários outros prémios como reconhecimento da originalidade das suas fotografias. Participa com regularidade em mostras internacionais — colectivas e individuais — na Holanda, Itália, Alemanha, EUA, Espanha, França, Bulgária, etc., desde 1995. Fotografias suas têm sido seleccionadas para publicação em importantes revistas da especialidade.

Na sua obra, Carla van de Puttelaar quer enfatizar a personalidade, a vulnerabilidade e o erotismo, bem como a distância e, às vezes, a alienação. Nos seus trabalhos os pormenores mais característicos e íntimos (incluindo marcas de roupa e/ou contusões da pele) são revelados sem preconceito, aumentando assim o carácter pessoal e a tensão que os modelos suportam, mas o tratamento dado à luz permite amplificar o efeito dramático e a sensação escultural.

Este trabalho de rigoroso efeito estético tem a ver com o mundo do mito de Galateia: as suas fotografias representam narrativas do escultor Pigmalião, que molda a sua mulher ideal para se apaixonar por ela; a deusa Afrodite concede-lhe, por fim, o desejo de a tornar real, e a pele de marfim ganha vida...

Carla van de Puttelaar vive e trabalha em Amesterdão.

Untitled, gelatin-silver print s/d.

Carla van de Puttelaar (1967, Zaandam) lives and works in Amsterdam. In 1996, she graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. In that same year, she was awarded the Esther Kroon Prize, while in 2002, she won the Prix de Rome Basic Prize. Since 1998, van de Puttelaar has merited solo exhibitions at various galleries and venues including the Museon, The Hague (1998), Van Zoetendaal Collections, Amsterdam (2000), Galerie Bodo Niemann, Berlin (2001), Julie Saul Gallery (with Celine van Balen), New York (2001), Galeria Forvm, Tarragona, Spain (2002), AMC, Amsterdam (2005), Les Rencontres d'Arles (2006), Le Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse (2008), Nessim Galéria, Budapest (2008), Flatland Gallery, Utrecht (2009), Galerie Confluence, Nantes (2010), photo-eye Gallery, Santa Fe (2010). Since 1995, she has been a featured participant in various group exhibitions including Fotodiffusione ‘96, Rome, Turin (1996), Art Affairs, Amsterdam (2001), Gallery Holland Tunnel, New York (2001), FOAM, Amsterdam (2002), Galeria Palma Dotze, Vilafranca, Spain (2002), La Périphérie, Paris (2002), Institut Néerlandais, Paris (2003), MONA, Pontiac, USA (2005), Museums, Seoul & Daejeon, Korea (2005-2006), MEP, Paris (2006), CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (2009), Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris (2007 and 2009), AIPAD, New York (2008), Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (2010). Her work has appeared in various publications including the books Deshima (1999), Prix de Rome (2002), Carla van de Puttelaar, (2004), Carla van de Puttelaar: Galateas (2008), Carla van de Puttelaar: The Beholder's Eye (2008).

In her photographic work Carla van de Puttelaar wants to emphasize personality, vulnerability and intimate eroticism, as well as distance and, sometimes, alienation. Her nudes draw heavily on the use of close up effects and the use — or deliberate non-use — of focus. Moles can be seen clearly, as well as more temporal marks such as bruises or the imprint of underwear in the skin. They enhance the intimacy of the picture, loading it with tension. Distance is being created first and foremost by the use of color. Often the skin will have a porcelain glance, delicate, fragile. Color also creates a sculptural feel, elaborated by the light and framing of the compositions. Her photos refer to the myth of Galatea. The story tells of the sculptor Pygmalion who carefully crafts his ideal woman from ivory and then falls in love with her. The goddess Aphrodite grants his wish to make her a real woman. The ivory skin comes to life.

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