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    The Modern Spirit is Vivisective by Francesca Catastini
    Installation view - Medusa, from the series »The Modern Spirit Is Vivisective« - print by Francesca Catastini - OstLicht
    The Modern Spirit is Vivisective by Francesca Catastini
    Installation view - Medusa, from the series »The Modern Spirit Is Vivisective« - print by Francesca Catastini - OstLicht
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    Francesca Catastini (*1982)

    Medusa, 2014
    From the series »The Modern Spirit Is Vivisective«

    Edition Information

     

    Limited editon of 5 + 2 AP

    in white wooden frame


    3000 €
    incl. 13% VAT
    Item number 048-00527

    “The modern spirit is vivisective. Vivisection itself is the most modern process one can conceive. The ancient spirit accepted phenomena with bad grace. The ancient method investigated law with the lantern of justice, morality with the lantern of revelation, art with the lantern of tradition. But all these lanterns have magical properties: they transform and disfigure. The modern method examines its territory by the light of day.”

    So said the modernist manifesto of a young James Joyce, a former medical student, in his Stephen Hero, offering a portrait of the artist as vivisector, a carnal voyeur whose victim suffers his gaze as she does the surgeon’s scalpel.

    Photo-artist Francesca Catastini explores vivisection as an aesthetic performance. Acting as both the victim and the artist, she dissects the very notion of scopophilia, blindness and the human quest for knowledge.

    Presented as a cornucopia of materials, her found photographs of old Anatomy lab and blind school students mingle with appropriated frontispieces of Renaissance Anatomy manuals and her austere yet ironical photoworks to form a telescopic structure divided into overlapping sections – the chapters of her forthcoming book: on looking, on touching, on cutting and on discovering.

     

    Federica Chiocchetti, The Photocaptionist

    • Inkjet print

    • Image dimensions 60 x 84 cm (60 x 84 inch)

    • Mounting, Framing Mounted on aluminium, framed 63 x 87 cm

    • Annotations
      Signed and numbered by the photographer on the reverse, frame on request

    • Contemporary

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