VENI ETIAM 2009
Concept: « Objets trouvés », 40 rare big albumen glass plates 8 ½X10 ½ inches, signed Dott. Nap. Candiani with applied Venice’s seal, 1880-1890. « Objets trouvés » while artist in residency at the Swiss Institute of Roma in Venice, autumn 2008. Black and white glass negatives of chandeliers, mirrors, furniture, completed by Venetian artisan and photographer around 1880, catalogue, archive? Reinterpretation thanks to contemporary digital technologies. Adjunction/deduction of colour’s tonality – inducing frescoes & paintings of the Venetian’s school as well as the actual atmosphere of the eternal City.
Technique >Original albumen glass plates 8 ½ X 10 ½ inches,Venice’s seal, ca. 1880-1990 >Pigment Inkjet Prints K3 Mat Epson on archival paper 300mg >Formats A2 42 x 59,4 cm Ed. 1/10 // 100 x 140 cm Ed. 3/10
Pigment Inkjet Prints >23 x 18 inches Edition 1/10 >43 x 55 inches Ed. 1/5 > for buying inquiries
GRAND TOUR, 2014
Objets trouvés, at a flee market, the 19th century black/white slides by Zurich photographer Johannes Ganz (1821-86) depict the original Grand Tour. An educational rite of passage in the 18th and 19th centuries reserved for upper class European and American young men of means, this former trip of privilege is now possible for many people in the 21st century….A body of work that transforms the traditional trip of Europe by juxtaposing 19th century slides with contemporary digital images of F&D Cartier’s own journey.
Inkjet archival prints, 2 sizes: 42 x 59,4 cm / Ed. 5 + 2 59,4 x 84,1cm / 23,4 x 33.1 inchesI / Ed. 3 +2 link for buying inquiries
BRAVE NEW WORLD, 2014
1. Père Noël Regnault (1683-1762) Entretiens physiques d'Ariste et d'Eudoxe, ou, Physique nouvelle en dialogues (Philosophical conversations, or, A new system of physics, by way of dialogue), edited in 1732 in Amsterdam
2. Alexander Wilson (July 6, 1766 – August 23, 1813) American Ornithology, a Scottish-American poet, ornithologist, naturalist, and illustrator. Identified by George Ord as the "Father of American Ornithology", Wilson is now regarded as the greatest American ornithologist before Audubon. *Found object, picked-up on a sidewalk (Houston Street) in New-York in 2016 Concept English Français