f&d cartier in Rome event
Nov 21st, 2007 by Brad
Friends of mine, Françoise & Daniel (f&d) Cartier are showing work as part of Piero Pala’s “SEX IS A PAIN IN THE ASS” in Rome. This a multidisciplinary project that consists of films by Matthew Barney, Jack Smith, Joseph Beuys and an exhibition with works of F & D Cartier, Massimo Drago, Giacinto Occhionero, Donato Small, Antonio Salieri, Alice Schivardi. It is on 30-Nov to 1-Dec at CINEMA AVORIO in Rome.
It will be followed by a party with musical selections THE SUBWAY BOX visual and selections from COMPLUS EVENTS on the Web.
f&d are husband-and-wife and work as an artist team. They are minimalists with a focus on photogram technique. If you are not in Rome, you can see f&d Cartier’s monograph at http://www.ursstuber.ch/ and click on “Buch 4″.
Françoise and Daniel Cartier combine an archaic photographic technique with objects that are part and parcel of contemporary life and modern consumer society: lingerie, doll clothes, handkerchiefs and bathing caps on the one hand and, on the other, skeletal doll outlines, X-rays, strands of hair and self-portraits. The objects are almost all bathed in a rose-pink color of varying degrees of transparency, each boasting an aura of its own. While present in the traces, indeed almost tangible marks, they leave on the paper, they are at the same time absent, slowly fading away in the manner of an afterimage behind closed eyelids.†– Martin Gasser Curator / Swiss Foundation for Photography, 2003
images details: f&d cartier: “Puzzle J, no 2 25-26.01.2003″, from series “Puzzleâ€/(Panties)â€, Daylight photogram, baryt silver gelatin print, “16×20″/40x50cm, 2001/2004, Unique print -one-off image- numbered & signed, edition 10