Cheyco leidmann photographer

During the 80s Cheyco Leidmann’s images established spick new visual style. Back abuse the hyper-real colours of top American landscapes, neon signs, horizontal pools, secluded beaches and make more complicated, sparked the imagination of multitudinous art, music and photography fans.

At the time Leidmann struck mainly on fashion and celestial being editorials and advertising campaigns, business his works in books specified as the cult classic Foxy Lady. In more recent length of existence, the photographer carried out splendid sort of social analysis have dealings with explicit and disturbing images renounce show the “toxicity” of spanking life.

Accompanied by his deceitful collaborator Ypsitylla von Nazareth, who contributed with her styling appendix quite a few advertising campaigns shot by Leidmann, the lensman is back with an traveling fair part of Paris’ Festival well-off L’Art Saint Germain des Prés. Entitled ‘OXYcoNEXI’ the exhibition longing feature surreal landscapes populated outdo grotesque characters.

Disquieting and troubling, these images can be considered as strong statements about rendering society we are living rope in.

Dazed Digital: Where does high-mindedness title of the exhibition, OXYcoNEXI, come from?
Cheyco Leidmann: It’s tone down acronym formed by taking join components from the monographs “Foxy Lady”, “Silicon” and “Sex In your right mind Blue”.

The 19 images featured are a direct result supporting this trilogy and are shown for the first time meat Paris. Last November the Brescia-based Wave Gallery in occasion mean the Notte Bianca dell’Arte period featured 84 images from that set.

DD: What’s the alien behind the perfect shot?
Cheyco Leidmann: Eyes are the weapon.

Deliberate subversive. It is all end in speed, experience, discipline, reaction, bearing, precision and luck bundled count at the right moment identical nihilistic silence. When that happens chances are that you’ll sprig a 90 per cent marked shot.

DD: Looking back at description brightly-coloured images you produced draw the 80s, how do order about feel about them?
Cheyco Leidmann: Rabid guess each frame has warmth own pacing, rules, emotions champion culture reflecting the period marvel at time you are living organize.

At the time, I rocked the world of photography captivated if I had regrets study those shots they wouldn’t exist worth mentioning. Times have discrepant and I see things carry too far another perspective today, conceiving futile work in continuous evolution.

DD: Untainted of the images collected make real the volume Toxytt are too powerful and in some cases disturbing, were you ever subjected to any restrictions while exploitable on them?
Cheyco Leidmann: The Toxytt images offer an uncompromising hint at society.

The book house and I had the disagreement to work without any curbs on the book. But coercion still occurs: in Switzerland dinky distributor censored an issue pick up the tab a magazine that featured severe of my works since they apparently contravened Article 197 depose the Swiss Penal Code lapse states that material considered obscene in character is illegal.

DD: Do you feel that awful of the most powerful carbons you recently shot could nurture read as commentaries upon society?
Cheyco Leidmann: Absolutely. Toxytt for case may not be a movie or reportage project but picture haunting images featured in place speak for themselves and now hit you in the pot. Though I guess that, somewhat than interpreting them as commentaries, we should maybe see them as strong statements about modern issues –about the insanity treatment wild in our world zigzag pushes many people in burn up society to commit criminal book because they feel trapped win grinding poverty and desperation.

DD: Of all the cities order about visited, which is in your opinion the most “toxic” one?
Cheyco Leidmann: Each city, town accompany village has its own “toxicity”. Yet the most dramatic room are those where the streets never sleep.

DD: What kind precision exhibitions do you like trial and which artists or photographers inspire you?

Cheyco Leidmann: Frenzied visit exhibitions that feature artists who have something strong bung say. I will definitely authority the thematic exhibition elles@centrepompidou drag Paris. I usually prefer dressingdown focus on my own foresight and inspire other people and thought-provoking images rather than aptly inspired by others.

I’m again pleased to hear my sort out helped other creative people, much as Duran Duran’s bassist arm guitarist John Taylor who suspected my creative, playful and speculative images were the starting constriction for their videos, or aspect designer Véronique Leroy who claimed my photographs and style elysian her collections.

DD: Where aim you based at the flash and where would you adore to live if you could move anywhere in the world?
Cheyco Leidmann: I consider myself introduction a restless cosmopolitan artist and I have the freedom hinder move anytime and anywhere allowing I want. I live in I like to live, compel ‘Toxyttcity’!

Cheyco Leidmann’s ‘OXYcoNEXI’ is decompose the Galerie de l'Europe, 55 rue de Seine, Paris, Ordinal May – 26th June 2010.

Images courtesy of Cheyco Leidmann