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We are at the Montreux Jazz Café for a new episode of Bilan's "My Formula for Success". Today we meet a celebrated young Swiss artist, Augustin Rebetez.
You are only 26-years old and you have won two incredible awards in Switzerland, this year's Vevey International Photo Award and, last year, the Swiss Photo Award.
How is it
possible to be so young and have so much experience
and success in an artistic field? I take great pains with my work. Every day, in my head, I am reflecting, thinking, about how to develop my work,
my photography. It is a passion for me and I devote my energy to bringing things out of myself, to finding my sincerity and what I want to do. I am passionate about it, about my exhibitions. I love my work.
So, my formula for success is hard work, relentlessness, obsession, passion, and pleasure...
You are someone very positive, you smile a lot, but your work is sober.
Do you have a sober side?
Are you depressed? No, not depressed but of course solitary,
I work alone,
do a lot alone, and I am a bit sad sometimes, have mixed emotions like everybody else... I do have a profound quality and that
darkness comes out in my work.
But it is not only that. After all, I play like a child at different things. What is your "Formula for Success"?
A friend once told me: "You don't learn to dream in art school". Our dreams come from childhood; they have been there a long time already.
I think I am lucky to dream.
What is your dream?
The biggest one to become a king in my artistic universe.
Very good: ambition... Yes, ambition. I have noticed that
when I
make an exhibition and the public comes, I
feel that,
for the public, we must to do a job in terms of quality, present beautiful things,
but also that we must feel what will be good for people.
I feel that people need to dream. Do you adapt
your art?
How do you react to criticism?
I am influenced by what anybody says. But some people say things that maybe I do not
take seriously, that won't influence me. People close to me - family, friends, people I meet
in my professional milieu - they influence me, obviously. My artistic research comes
from inside and that cannot be changed. My force, my energy comes from there; my interior
is my motor. For certain people,
I think, the images I make could seem crazy, far fromtheir reality of going to work and coming home to watch TV -- that reality. But for
people who make the effort, stepping into my universe can help them to dream, to disconnect.
If I can transmit a little bit of the energy I have, my vision of things, it can help people a little bit. It may do them good. Good vibes.
I wish you great success and creativity in the future. Thank you, Augustin.