12 October 2009

FOCUS: ‘Massillon’ by Jeff Charbonneau and Eliza French

“(…) their visual language and spirit find root in a shared responsiveness to sources in 19th-century art and  culture. As a result, Charbonneau & French, who have collaborated since 2003, have compiled an impressive body of work brimming with mystery and sensuality,
self-consciously but elegantly Gothic—stills, it would seem, from an Edgar Allan Poe film adaptation directed by Ingmar Bergman, or Fellini’s take on Lewis Carroll.
(…)
Although many of the images provide an erotic frisson, the effects are less soft-core than soft-edge, applying a present-day visual interpretation of the “romantic” to the true romanticism—erratic, obsessed, tempestuous—of the 19th century”

by Peter Frank in On View
Charbonneau and French website

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