a fire hydrant sitting in front of a blue buildingan image of a picture of a blue building on a gray backgrounda picture of a bathroom with a toilet and a blue walla toilet in the corner of a blue bathroomtwo windows on the side of a blue buildinga picture of a picture of a bathroom with blue wallsa picture of a picture in a frame on the wall
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164 - Mario PALMIERI. Corners No. 4, 2008, Tokyo, Honchū.
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Estimate €500 - €800
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Mario PALMIERI. Corners No. 4, 2008, Tokyo, Honchū. Photograph (chromogenic print (silver-based colour print) mounted in Diasec). Dimensions: 120 cm x 95.5 cm This work is part of the series ‘Exploration of the Eastern Archipelago’, comprising an edition of 5 prints plus 1 artist’s proof. Here is how the artist describes it: This work was created during my numerous stays in Japan between 2002 and 2009. Over the years, I was able to travel extensively across the archipelago’s four main islands—Honshū, Kyūshū, Shikoku and Hokkaidō. This project was funded by a group of patrons who collect my photographs. The photographs were taken using a 20x25 large-format view camera, on colour negative film; short films were also made at the same time as the photographs, on Super 8 and video. This work has been exhibited in Paris, Brussels and Breda (Netherlands). Biography: Mario Palmieri was born in Calabria, in southern Italy. He studied drawing at the Maurice-Quentin de la Tour School, in preparation for entry to the Beaux-Arts in Amiens, where he passed the entrance examination and graduated from CERIS (Centre for the Study and Research of Image and Sound), directed by Henry Coste in Paris, after two years. Since the late 1990s, he has collaborated with a number of magazines: Vogue, Numéro, Harper’s Bazaar, DA, Citizen K, Libération, M le Monde… For these magazines, he has produced numerous portraits of figures from the worlds of art, fashion, cinema, architecture, politics… as well as features on contemporary architecture, design and urban landscapes around the world… He uses a 4x5 view camera and colour negatives to produce images for these publications. Alongside his work producing images for the press, he developed a personal body of work focused primarily on the environment resulting from the presence and activity of Homo sapiens on the Earth’s surface and the associated consequences. Miscellaneous: — Winner of the Henri-Vincenot Foundation Prize, 1993, for a series of images of vernacular architecture in the Dijon region — Leonardo da Vinci Prize, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1994, for a project on post-war urban planning in Poland, entitled ‘À la fenêtre’. — Villa de Noailles in Hyères, commission for a series of photographs of houses designed by Jean Prouvé in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region
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