Escargots et autres animaux d'artiste : le rôle de l'auteur dans l'œuvre de Joan Fontcuberta

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  • Camilla Federica Ferrario Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma

Résumé

The animal kingdom has been a constant presence throughout Joan Fontcuberta’s career. A strong interest in natural history museums and zoological gardens appeared in his first photographs in the 1970s, and then exploded starting from the following decade in series such as Fauna and Safari, in which, between curious hybridizations and staging, the animals were often protagonists of his well-known mystifications to deceive the public, or as Frottograms, in which they were used to question the traditional idea of photographic index. Animals then found themselves actively collaborating with Fontcuberta in the most recent project Gastropoda, in which, by delegating the creative act to snails, the artist seemed to want to question the traditional notion of authorship. The article therefore reconstructs the multiform animal presence in all of Fontcuberta’s work, to then analyze through it – with constant reference to his bibliography – his positions regarding the role of the author in the contemporary post-photographic society, also opening up to a series of further interdisciplinary reflections in the fields of art, photography and visual culture.

Biographie de l'auteur

Camilla Federica Ferrario, Università degli Studi “La Sapienza” di Roma

Graduated in 2016 with a dissertation titled Finzione, ecologia visiva e ruolo dell’autore nell’opera di Joan Fontcuberta, Camilla Federica Ferrario is currently a PhD student in Art History at La Sapienza in Rome, where she is completing a research on the Historical Photographic Archive of the University. She has recently collaborated with the Center for Photography at Woodstock (New York), the Interzone Gallery (Rome), and the Mlac-Museo Laboratorio di Arte Contemporanea (Rome). She is also a journalist and she has written numerous articles and interviews for sector magazines. Among her scientific publications, the digital article 24 ore di fotografie: Erik Kessels (2015), some catalogue entries in La fototeca di Adolfo Venturi alla Sapienza (2018), the essay "L’arte come attivatore sociale: il progetto di Servizio Civile Street Art a Roma" in Action/Reaction Arte Urbana e Street art a Roma (2019) and the essay "Adolfo Venturi e la ditta fotografica Anderson" in the volume In corso d’opera 4 (in course of publication).

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Publiée

2022-12-01

Comment citer

Ferrario, C. F. (2022). Escargots et autres animaux d’artiste : le rôle de l’auteur dans l’œuvre de Joan Fontcuberta. Elephant & Castle, (27). Consulté à l’adresse https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/209

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