Beethoven - metamorphosis is a project bringing Beethoven's character closer through the medium of photography. Beethoven - metamorphosis is an innovative attempt to visualize and participate. Thanks to the achievements of the latest photography techniques, I want to create paintings based on the narrative aesthetics of 18th century genre painting, reaching to the works of such outstanding artists as William Hogarth, Boucheron and Johann Zoffana. Photography cannot bear falsehood. Each element of the photographic image aims to reflect reality. This includes the core of the project: to capture the portrait of the genius composer in the last photograph as if he was arrested in the frame when he posed to the painter. My project assumes a maximum of authenticity: the actor physically resembles Beethoven, is dressed in a period costume, has a makeup and is placed on the background of the decoration reconstructed in details as it looked at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries I intend to create the illusion of participation. "There and then" will become "here and now".

Piotr Kucia (born in 1975) - photographer, cinematographer, lecturer of the Faculty of Media Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2013, he received a PhD in film art from the photographic project "Beethoven metamorphosis", awarded at international competitions. In his work, he uses a 16-bit registration technique in space over Adobe RGB.