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Works<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
Biography<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Was born in 1958. He lives and works in Brussels. <\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s difficult to avoid clich\u00e9s when photographing the New York skyline in black and white, but Dratwa’s pictures particularly seen as a series, have an added dimension in their formulaic fore, mid and background composition.<\/p>\n

They have a very particular atmosphere, almost voyeuristic, with the figures in silhouette, photographed from behind against the sharply contrasted shaft of natural light through the window combining the gaze of the photographer and the subject over the downtown skyline. The photographs are printed in a meter by a meter and half to maximize the sense of the immense.<\/p>\n

Dratwa, the former editor of Domino from 1987 to 1990 is a self-taught photographer, now living in Brussels, whose many travels over the last few decades spawned a multitude of atmospheric cityscape scenes.<\/p>\n

“One day I sat down in front of the window on the 66th floor of the Rockfeller center in New York,” Luc Dratwa explains. “I was deeply touched by the poetry of the location. I felt as if I was vacillating between heaven and earth, as if I was elsewhere and I felt that I had to capture this exceptional moment”.<\/p>\n

So began a photographic project capturing joe public, unaware, in poses of dreamy contemplation as they take a rest on the bench of the 66th floor.<\/p>\n

(Wallpaper – 05\/08\/99)<\/em><\/p>\n

Exhibitions and Fairs:<\/strong><\/p>\n

2025
\nGrenoble Art Up – Ionnyk Gallery – FR<\/p>\n

2022
\nArt Porters – Singapore – SG
\nAbsolute Art Gallery – Knokke – BE<\/p>\n

2021
\nNew York Fascination<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris – FR<\/p>\n

2020
\nWindows Tale<\/em> – Leonhard\u2019s Gallery – Antwerp – BE<\/p>\n

2019
\nWindows Tale<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris – FR<\/p>\n

2018
\nMixed – Group show – Leonhard\u2019s Gallery – Antwerp – BE<\/p>\n

2017
\nAbsolute Art Gallery – Brussels – BE
\nNights – Luc Dratwa – Absolute Art Gallery – Knokke – BE
\nRotterdam WTC \u2013 Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair – NL<\/p>\n

2016
\nEast West – Leonhard\u2019s Gallery – Antwerp – BE<\/p>\n

2015
\nFotofever – Macadam Gallery – Paris
\nTel Aviv Photo 2015 – Tel Aviv – IL
\nAAF London Battersea – Wanrooij Gallery – London – GB
\nCharity Auction “L’Accueil” – Brussels – BE
\nLille Art Fair – Absolute Art Gallery – Lille – FR
\nLondon Art Fair – Wanrooij Gallery \u2013 GB<\/p>\n

2014
\nArt Miami – Leslie Smith Gallery – Amsterdan – USA
\nLXRY Art Fair – Leslie Smith Gallery – Amsterdan – NL
\nAmsterdam Art Fair I Leslie Smith Gallery – Amsterdam – NL
\nAbsolute Art Gallery – Knokke – BE
\nLille Art Up – Gallery 138 – Lille – FR
\nLille Art Up – Leonhard’s Gallery – Lille – FR
\nHong Kong Art Fair – Bruno Art Group – Hong Kong – HK
\nBrussels Art Fair – United Gallery – BE
\nArt India – Bruno Art Group – New Dehli – IN
\nU.S. Embassy – Brussels – BE<\/p>\n

2013
\nCharity Auction – Pierre Berg\u00e9 & Associ\u00e9s – FR
\nSingapore Art Fair – Bruno Art Group – SG
\nFotofever \u2013 Galerie Artima \u2013 Paris – FR
\nSubway<\/em> \u2013 Galerie Artima \u2013 Paris – FR
\nLille Art Fair – Gallery 138 \u2013 Lille – FR
\nHong Kong Art Fair – United Gallery \u2013 HK
\nKasia Kay Art Project – Chicago – USA
\nArt Gent – Leonhard’s Gallery – BE
\nLalanta Fine Art Gallery – Bangkok – TH
\nOff Art Fair – Young Gallery – Brussels – BE
\nNew Art Fair – Doinel Gallery – Paris – FR<\/p>\n

2012
\nArt Miami Context – Kasia Kay Gallery \u2013 Miami – USA
\nArt Gent – United Gallery \u2013 Gent – BE
\nArt London – Doinel Gallery \u2013 London – GB
\nSubway<\/em> – Galerie Artima\u00a0– Paris – FR
\nFotofever – Leonhard’s Gallery\u00a0– Brussels – BE
\nAAF NY – United Gallery – NYC\u00a0– USA
\nCara Design Gallery\u00a0– Saint Tropez – FR
\nArt Hamptons – NYC – USA
\nLeonhard’s Gallery\u00a0\u2013 Antwerpen – NL
\nSubway<\/em> – Absolute Gallery\u00a0– Knokke – BE
\nArt Paris \u2013 Paris – FR
\nSubway<\/em> – Young Gallery\u00a0– Brussels – BE
\nPierre Berg\u00e9 – L’Accueil\u00a0\u2013 Brussels – BE
\nWindows<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris – FR
\nGalerie Envie d’Art – Paris – FR<\/p>\n

2011
\nLineart \u2013 Gent – BE
\nRed Dot Art Fair\u00a0\u2013 Miami – USA
\nArt Elys\u00e9es – Galerie Artima – Paris – FR
\nWindows<\/em> – Galerie Artima – Paris – FR
\nGalerie Alfican\u00a0– Brussels – BE
\nYoung Gallery – Brussels – BE
\nAFF \u2013 NYC – USA
\nGalerie Artima \u2013 Paris – FR
\nUnited Gallery – Brussels
\nAAF \u2013 Amsterdam – NL
\nAAF \u2013 Brussels – BE
\nPierre Berg\u00e9 – L\u2019Accueil \u2013 Brussels – BE<\/p>\n

2010
\nLineart\u00a0\u2013 Gent – BE
\nCutlog Fair\u00a0– Paris – FR
\nWindows<\/em> – Galerie Philippe Chaume –\u00a0Paris – FR
\nFiligrane librairie\u00a0– Brussels\u00a0– BE
\nUS Embassy – Media Hub \u2013 Brussels – BE
\nAffordable Art Fair – Conrad Hotel – Brussels – BE<\/p>\n

2009
\nYoung Gallery \u2013 Brussels – BE
\nYoung Gallery – Knokke – BE
\nAAF – Brussels – BE<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":105,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2634","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nLuc DRATWA - Biography - Galerie Artima<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"LUC DRATWA - Belgian photographer - Born in 1958 in Brussels - Fascinated by New York, its roofs and perspectives, its subways, its streets at night - Series Windows - subway - Streets - Windows 2.0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/galerie-artima.com\/en\/luc-dratwa-biography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Luc DRATWA - 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