Michel de Yougoslavie, born in 1958 in France, is the grandson of the last King of Italy and the Regent of Yugoslavia. He grew up and studied in France, Switzerland, UK and Germany. Traveller, art lover, he developed a keen sense of observation. Within his family, there has always been a like for photography. Capturing images offers him a great moment of relaxation and pleasure, that he decided to share. Attracted by nature, he also photographs objects that show a sense of order and logic.
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Rosemont Art Advisory is pleased to bring to you Prince Michel de Yougoslavie photography online gallery room and His exclusive comments on His inspiration in His art journey.
«The journey into art was part of a deliberate Program of adding a hobby to my daily activity. So I decided to do photography in 2009, as a daily practice and scheduled 1 hour every afternoon. After a while my friends started asking me to do exhibitions, but I kept refusing, saying it was a private matter, and gave all kind of excuses not to do a show. Finally I did my first exhibition in Geneva 5 years later and it was a great success and gave me a lot of pleasure and joy, so I continued taking photos and doing exhibitions.
You ask me how I get inspired. It is as if something takes over my mind. I will look at something, let say a tree and I get a strange feeling, that attracts me to a part of that tree, or to the whole aspect of it, and I feel an urge to take a picture. I read a book about the art of archery in Japan. The zen master says that it is not you doing the process, but not you. He says IT holds the arrow, IT pulls the cord and IT shots and IT hits the bulls eye. It is the same with photo, IT aims, IT pushes the trigger and IT takes the photo.
Photo speaks to every one, and every one sees different things in the same photos, which is great. I found out because many people come up to me at my exhibitions and tell me what they see, and what the think I did and saw. Many times it has nothing to do with what I did, but iT is very interesting and eye opening to me.
I would be very happy to inspire young talent to do photography. It is a great way of expression, and it is time you spend with yourself, your camera, and almost a kind of meditation. You also learn patience, humility, and the sense that everything changes all the time, so you have to be present.
I like very much Magritte, Matisse, Botticelli, Caravaggio.
As far as Museums are concerned, I was lucky to see many during my life, weather in Paris , London, Madrid , Vienna, New York, Florence, Rome, and many more places. I also like art fairs, and have seen many. I always get ideas.»
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Prince Michel de Yougoslavie by Nebojsa Babic
Photos by Prince Michel de Yougoslavie