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Time and again in catalogues and on the web, I have come across pictures by this artist, who was born in Vietnam but now lives in Switzerland. I am happy to now be holding in my hands his first publication. When compared to the recently published “The Great Unreal” (Edition Patrick Frey) by his fellow students TONK from Zurich, who use similar methods, this book has a more formal appearance. This is because the artist has used photography for the first time in order to determine his place in the world. His trips, his encounters, many things are documented and later used in his collages. Small typologies such as street altars in Vietnam, short photo essays, and bathers and kissers all can be found here in addition to newspaper clippings and overpainting. Sculptures with great presence, which are in turn the subject of photographs, treat the subjects of death and destruction in strange dream-like games. Scheidegger & Spiess have made a soberly designed book that both orders and satisfies this complex art.
www.scheidegger-spiess.ch/fullinfo.php?id=302
Petra Stavast, "Libero", Roma 2009
This story of a family spans two continents. The photographer found several pictures from a family album in an abandoned house in Italy. She photographed the house and the pictures and made contact with the people in the pictures, an Italian family that had lived in New York for several decades. The parents of this family had sent pictures of their children to relatives still living in Italy. The son and daughter in these pictures, now grown up, were then then subject of portraits by the photographer. The book has a sober layout and as an object rests well in the reader's hands. The direct approach taken leads to a straightforward story, and gaps are either filled by interviews or left open. On the whole, this is a convincing and restrained production.
utopiaparkway.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/book-of-the-month-1-sherlock-holmes-with-a-camera-in-calabria/ www.orderromapublications.org/Product.aspx?pid=172
22.12.2009
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