Paolo Gioli (1941-, Italy)
1982
Dentro la Ruota di Sete - Eakins/Marey/ L'Uomo Scomposto [Into the Silk Wheel - Eakins/Marey/ The Fragmented Man]

Photograph
13 3/4 x 10 ins
 
Larry Gottheim, Be-hold, Inc
Courtesy of Larry Gottheim - Be-Hold, 27 June 2018, Lot: 29
 
It uses the Polaroid backing, with the image surface transferred to silk, plus applied paint and drawing. The original Polaroid backing serves as a frame. Part of Marey's circular image with frames of a seagull or other bird is seen above another circular image that covers it and continues beneath the Polaroid frame. These consecutive images of a man were made by Eakins. Small elements of paint and ink leak into the space of the backing paper. This is attractive but also crosses genres, media and time periods. It connects with pre-cinema and cinema-Gioli is well known as an experimental filmmaker as well as a photographic artist. As with his films, he likes to use simple and "primitive" techniques to subtle modernist ends. The Marey and Eakins images were simply shot with a Polaroid camera from images in books.. In the 1980's, when Gioli worked on this series, several museums acquired his works. Since then his work has been collected primarily in Europe and abroad. In the last few years they have been presented and sold in many major photographic shows in Europe.
 
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