Three long sequences of pictures show a desert landscape of dust and rock. It’s hard to make out the imperceptible differences between one picture and the next. Only on closer inspection do we notice minimal shifts in the frame. The small-square Cartesian coordinate systems on the pictures suggest an underlying scientific purpose. And indeed, the pictures are parts of a series of NASA Archive photographs shot by astronauts for scientific purposes during the lunar landing missions Apollo 15 and Apollo 16. But Luciano Rigolini’s minimalistic conceptual approach brings out an unlooked-for aesthetic dimension to the pictures. The artist uses a photographic sequence for a metaphorical trip to the moon that bears little resemblance to all the jingoistic hype around the moon landing as a heroic milestone of conquest. By closely scrutinizing our faithful satellite, Rigolini transforms the NASA photographs from documentary material into artworks that tap into man’s eternal musings on the mythological and symbolic sides of the moon. AS 15-16 includes allusions to avant-garde and Land Art as well as minimal music, which also makes use of serial patterns and minute variations.
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Photographe, cinéaste et producteur, Luciano Rigolini (né en 1950 en Suisse italienne, vit et travaille à Lugano et à Paris) suit, durant les années 1980, les cours du Département Cinéma de l'Université Paris VIII. Au début de la décennie suivante, il se fait connaître avec Urban Landscapes, un travail photographique où il explore la spécificité de ce médium et les rapports esthétiques entre photo et peinture. À partir de 1995, il travaille à Paris comme producteur de la chaîne culturelle européenne Arte où il est chargé des créations d'auteurs à l'unité Documentaire. Il s'intéresse à la recherche des nouvelles formes de narration et du langage dans la représentation du réel. Il a produit des œuvres de cinéastes tels que Chris Marker, Alexandre Sokourov, Naomi Kawase, Alain Cavalier, etc., et découvre de nombreux jeunes talents.
Luciano Rigolini s'intéresse à la photographie vernaculaire et interroge ce mode de représentation du réel. Il collectionne avec une affection particulière les images neutres d'objets ou de mobilier urbain, dénuées de toute présence ou trace humaine, telles que les clichés réalisés pour les catalogues de documentation commerciale ou industrielle. Collectionnées, trouvées sur internet, présentées telles quelles ou largement retravaillées et fortement agrandies, les photographies de Luciano Rigolini révèlent une dimension esthétique aux qualités sculpturales, picturales et métaphoriques tout en suggérant une réflexion sur notre manière de voir ou de percevoir les images.
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