Patrick Faigenbaum “Kolkata/Calcutta”
Aperture Gallery
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Kolkata/Calcutta inaugurates the newly founded alliance between the Hermès Foundation and Aperture Foundation.
Patrick Faigenbaum is the winner of the 2013 Henri Cartier-Bresson Award. This grant, awarded by the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation, provides funding to an artist to produce a major project. Art historian Jean-François Chevrier, professor of the History of Contemporary Art at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, curated the exhibition.
Faigenbaum’s interest in India goes back to his first trip there in 1995. When Faigenbaum returned in 2014 to complete his project, he chose to photograph and immerse himself in the local culture of Kolkata, which was once the capital of the British Indian Empire. In Kolkata, he photographed and captured the life of one artist, Shreyasi Chatterjee, in her neighborhood and in the local countryside. Faigenbaum was inspired by Chatterjee’s work, which includes painting, collage, and embroidery. “As a whole, the images will constitute both a portrait of this artist in her family and professional settings and a free description of her larger urban environment,” he writes. “In this way, I intend to produce a complex image of one region of the Indian subcontinent which renders both its historical depth and its most vivid features.”
The pictures selected for the book (Lars Müller Publishers, 2015) and exhibition document in particular the region’s music circles and the continuing existence of a cinematic, photogenic quality that is engrained in the space of the city.
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Schedule
from September 17, 2015 to November 07, 2015
Patrick Faigenbaum in conversation with Chris Boot: Tuesday, September 22, 6:30 p.m.
Opening Reception on 2015-09-16 from 19:00 to 20:30