Quotations from different documentary films.
About forty eminent and renown intellectuals,academics and artists of the whole world have analyzed and studied San Damon’s works.Titles of the documentary films on the internet : San Damon S.O.I. (1ère et seconde partie),…San Damon,Oniroscopisme,…..San Damon L.O.A.C,….Si j’étais une oeuvre d’art de San Damon,…..San Damon Onirscopisme dans la ville.Links on this site in “blog et films”.
Jean Noël Missa (Doctor in Philosophy,
President of the Belgian Society of Philosophy )
1.) The depressive,melancholic patient suffering from dementia praecox with delirious ideas who is waiting for the psychoanalyst,is going to examine these photos,is going to listen to the music and perhaps there will be a spontaneous therapeutic effect,a placebo effect.So I think that the master San Damon could in some way have his installation patented as being the first self-therapeutic machine !
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Francis Buekenhout (Mathematician)
1.) It’s a great honour for a mathematician to be invited to do comments on the photos collection by San Damon who intends to capture the dream and the movement.
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Daniel Blumenthal (Pianist,Laureate participating in the Queen Elisabeth Contest)
1.) When I had the pleasure to discover the photos by San Damon for the first time,I have to say that I have really been struck by the content,the technique,the message,the beauty,the architecture,the transposition of,how could I say,…the message.
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Pierre Lallemand (Architect)
1.) This work by San Damon is,for me,
totally unique.I don’t know any equivalent,
as well as for the colours as for the instant when he stiffens the world.So here it is,it’s a surprise,it’s an astonishment,it’s,how to say…it’s a profound and true creation of the instant,of the moment,ot the stopping of the world,where he have a frozen state.
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Sergio Purini (Curator of the Art and History Museum of the Cinquantenaire and Professor of Photography I.N.R.A.C.I)
1.) And so I see the photos,it’s only sensations,and it’s true that it…well,I,when I saw this work for the first time,and I still see it now in front of these images,it’s true,I said to myself,waouw…here,I’m really in front of a work that I don’t know,a powerful approach,really personal.
2.) Actually the forest,here,as it is interpreted by San Damon,well,is a psychoanalytic interpretation,it’s so the transposition into images of his inner vision of the forest.That’s what his work is,that’s what one can feel.
3.) (…) sensations for example of transposition of colours,finally it’s true that San Damon’s work is a transposition work and finally this transposition is not far away from the reality.
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Antoine Masson (Psychiatrist and Criminologist)
1.) What happens when a psychiatrist meets the photos by San Damon ?
It happens that in reality one discovers on these photographs an extraordinary thing that is the echo of a whole work that has been done with the adolescence.
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Claude Javeau (Sociologist-University Libre of Brussels)
1.) San Damon presents to us the interior of a tram,a new model besides,this tram is empty and is going to fill,depending on the stops,with people who will that way be associated in order to move on rails,that’s to say towards a destiny they can not change.
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Julian Barbour (Physicist,University of Cambridge)
1.) Time and movement are among the most elusive concepts in physics.As a theoretician I have been trying to understand them for 50 years.San Damon’s photographs and his Oniroscopism highlight a truth,which is this : We can only understand time and movement in concrete terms.
2.) (…) any notion of time,motion and place that San Damon’s Oniroscopism conjures up,relies totally on the concrete images he presents to us in the photos,and the brain,in turn,presents to us in consciousness.
3.) Science has as yet not the remotest idea how we come to see eternity at all,let alone in motion.Shakespeare may have got it right : We are such stuff as dreams are made on.But how and why do they grow to something of great constancy ?
San Damon’s images will help us ponder these mysteries.
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Daniel Couvreur (chief editor"culture"
Le Soir)
1.) The installation by San Damon is meant to travel around the world between New York,San Francisco,Shanghai,Berlin,Paris…among the offices of psychiatrists and of psychoanalysts.”Room Zero” could be seen as a real self-therapeutic system,points out Jean-Noël Missa,the president of the Belgian Society of Philosophy.
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Oscar Bernstein (Art Collector)
When one has seen a work by San Damon,
one is ashamed to possess others.
San Damon,it’s Satan,San Damon,it’s the event,may be the one we didn’t expect any more in the world of art.
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Patrick Pruvot (Director EDF Luminus)
1.) San Damon is an artist of the light and light is source of life.
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Stefano Mazzonis (Director of the Opera of Wallonia)
1.) San Damon’s photo of the overexposed Time Square makes me dream,it’s something which isn’t real in this phantasmagoric photo,it’s a bit like at the opera,where I live, where I work (…) I like this photo,I like San Damon who brings us into this world of dreams,like the one of the opera.
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Pascal Delwit (Political Scientist U.L.B)
“Talking about a blurred photographic work of a collapsing building”
1.) About San Damon’s work I could say that on the left side of the photo is the big stability between 1830 and 1970,and then on the contrary on the right side a phase of acceleration.And one can see this acceleration through the six reforms of the State between 1970 and our days,which is a phase (…) of dilution,of evaporation of the State.
2.) So it’s a form of a metaphor of the Belgian politics in two buildings,the great stability and then,I would say,the almost vanishing,the motion of the collapsing building.But at the same time one could watch this photo by San Damon in another way,that’s to say watch it from the right to the left and say to oneself that these last seven-eight years we have known a very chaotic phase in the Belgian political life.
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Francis Buekenhout (Mathematician)
1.) A The dream is a production of the brain,it’s a reality created by the brain.And so we are not able to explain everything and that’s what justifies this collection,this experience by San Damon for the Oniroscopism.
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Pascal Smet (Minister of the Region Brussels-Capital)
1.) San Damon came to make the link between the city and art,but also between culture and its importance. (…) And this experience is going to surprise the Brusselers….and at these times (…) also the importance of making interventions in the public spaces,(…) we have to do new things,to dare doing things.
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Victor Ginsburgh (Economist,Expert of the Art Market.Yale University)
I sense that the surprising Oniroscopismo -
- graphs by San Damon would be particularly well suitable for being associated with a face-to face meeting with some of the texts or drawings in which most of the surrealist writers were engaged under the uncontrolled appellation of “cadavres exquis” (a literary expression form)
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Marc Quaghebeur : (Director of the Museum of Literature,Brussels)
1.) This notion of real fantastic (…),I worked a lot on it,and when I for the first time discovered the photos by San Damon,of course I had a shock (…) which is comparable.And when I discovered the notion of Oniroscopy,well,I necessarily couldn’t not make this link with this form of awareness of the imaginary world and of relation to the world (…).
2.) (…) I come back to San Damon’s photos (…).When I saw them as well in relation to the urban spaces as in relation to the sylvan spaces (…),it was very striking to me,because precisely there’s this form of metamorphosis of the urban reality,in which the natural exists (…) through a play of colours and a transformation of the colours (…)
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Thierry Lenain (Art Historian and Aesthetician,University Libre of Brussels)
“Analyzing a blurred photo…film : San Damon,Oniroscopisme”
1.) This photo is a work that San Damon has related to the idea of the present,(…) with the white strips which went completely over to black this time,and which also bring a sort of extraordinary plastic energy.
And we a little bit think of the big lines in black paint by a Pierre Soulages,for example,or by a Franz Kline,well;something of that aspect.
2.) And hence facing this difficulty of living time,the images by San Damon,in my opinion,can a little bit help us.(…) Already by showing this polymorphic aspect of time.And I think that this polymorphic aspect of time which in a certain way is demonstrated by the practice,through San Damon’s art,is a good thing since in some way it offers a possibility of choice.
3.) (…) all these photos,even more chemical and mechanical photos,of a rather special kind,that’s true,but which however don’t prevent us from making a visual recording of a state of things which was there at a given moment and instant.
4.) And what is absolutely remarkable in that work,is that this photographic unreadability results in a great plastic power,that’s to say that we are here almost in a kind of abstract painting (…) so once again something organic and spontaneous,
which of course recalls us the gesture painting,the action painting.Here we can say that San Damon acts like a gesture photographer.
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