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Nose Art by Manolo Chrétien

Nose Art by Manolo Chrétien

Nose Art by Manolo Chrétien
The MB&F M.A.D.Gallery takes flight with French photographer Manolo Chrétien and his
powerful aeronautical artwork.

nose art

The photographs
Acclaimed artist and photographer Manolo Chrétien unearths his deeply rooted passion for
aviation in the Nose Art exhibition at the MB&F M.A.D.Gallery, debuting in February 2017. In
a powerful yet playful approach, Chrétien captures the essence of famed aircraft nose to
face as it were. From a luxe 1940s Learjet to the supersonic Concorde jetliner and military
vessels like the Dassault Rafale, his images offer a dynamic and unusual deadon visual
perspective. This is further accentuated by the circular cutout format, which follows the
shape of the aircraft’s fuselage.

Concorde
Concorde

“Nose Art is the natural outcome of ten years’ worth of trying to capture planes from a
humanistic or animalistic angle, and it is the beginning of a new way of working,” explains
Chrétien. “
It’s been in my head for years, since my father woke me up one morning from the
air through the window of my second floor bedroom in a helicopter he was testing. I
remember it as if it were yesterday: the animallike cockpit of the Alouette, my father with his
Ray Bans smiling inside, motioning to say, ‘Time to get out of bed, kids!’”

Merken

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