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Substracto Rui Luz

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City of Glass, Portugal

Rui Luz, born in September 19/1986, is a photographer/digital artist, who takes an experimental approach into the artistic fields of photography and digital art. Influenced by subjects like abstract, minimal, graphic design, dreamlike states, noir art, expressionism, cinema, paintings, music, metaphors, philosophical thinking and themes like time and space, emotions, dreams, solitude, stoicism, society, lethargy, opression, freedom, hope, emptyness, reality and erotica. He is mainly influenced by artists like, Paulo Nozolino, Rui Palha, Brassai, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Lewis Baltz, David Burdeny, Gabriel Orozco, Anton Corbijn, Lasse Hoile, Travis Smith, Rob Sheridan, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, Theo van Doesburg and Petter Saville. Music also plays a key role as influence in his work, specially in the way he develops the atmospheres, bands like Joy Division, Project Komakino, Editors, Blacklist, Front Line Assembly, Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Ulver, Katatonia, Dark Tranquillity, Opeth, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble, Nils Petter Molvaer, Subheim, The Deftones, A Perfect Circle, Massive Attack and Portishead are among his favourites. He uses mainly black and white in his work, but sometimes strong colours can also be found, he likes to create a confrontation between the world of monochrome and colour. His way of composing pictures is extremly simplistic, he believes the true essence of the picture must be stripped to the fundamental points, this way there are no unnecessary distractions, and the main subject is completely preserved.

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