Bart Ramakers. Fotografie./ Alain Verdier, — Bride Unveiled. Bart Ramakers. Photo

BE - , Bart Ramakers, 2021 Hardcover, printed on Magno Silk 150 g paper in full color, is 22 x 30 cm, . Bart Ramakers is best known for his mythological scenes, in which he provides a contemporary interpretation of classical legends and stories. In A Divine Comedy, for example, he created his own version of the New Testament, and in ?The Anatomy of Beauty? he explored his fascination with classical standards of beauty and purity. In his latest project and book, ?The Bride Unveiled?, he goes a step further: he deconstructs many of these classical ideals in a surrealistic story about a cardinal and a journalist who each in the end will find their true love, after a lot of surrealistic plot turns and art references to Duchamp, Mariën, Bacon and their likes. Once bared, the veiled bride turns out to be a woman of flesh and blood, purified and marked by real life, true to life. ?The Bride Unveiled? is a long awaited delightful gem, bound in red linen, stamped in gold and finished with a gold cut. It?s printed in 250 copies only, 50 of which are numbered and signed. Some 60 pictures (never published before) tell the story of a devoted cardinal and his twin brother ? the former reporter Linlin ? , each of them searching for their eternal female. The images, shot in Italy, France and Belgium, are full of humour, estheticism, narrative details, art references? and Bart?s colours were never as daring as in this project.