Signed; Adriana Duque - F:ototk - 2008

Ett mycket sällsynt signerad hårdbunden utgåva av F:OTOTK 1 av den colombianska konstnären och fotografen Adriana Duque, utgiven av La Silueta Ediciones: Consejería Cultural de España år 2008. Boken innehåller ett brett utbud av fängslande bilder kring berättande, myt, barndom och mycket mer, och har 139 sidor samt text på spanska och engelska. Denna kopia är i utmärkt skick – se gärna bilderna för mer information – och är även signerad och dedikerad av Adriana Duque, något sällan skådat på marknaden.

Breathing new life into art historical traditions, blurring the lines between painting and photography, and capturing the innocence of children, are thriving trends in contemporary art; in the portraiture of Adriana Duque, we find all three, synthesized seamlessly in tableaux fit for fairytales. Perhaps best described as cinematic or theatrical, Duque’s photographs feature stoic little girls—think Princess Margarita in Velázquez’s iconic Las Meninas—ensconced in lush environments. The resulting delusions of grandeur function as commentaries on her native Colombia and its colonial history, as well as utopian ideals and social and cultural stereotypes.

Adriana Duque was born in Manizales, Colombia in 1968. In that city she completed her undergraduate studies in Fine Arts at the University of Caldas. In 2001 Adriana was awarded a scholarship by both the Colombian government and the French embassies, which enabled her to study digital photography in Barcelona (Spain) and travel throughout several cities in France where she had the opportunity to visit some of the most important collections of classic painting as well as attend the International Photography Festival of Arles in the south of France.

F:OTOTK is a collection of monographic books that analyzes from an historic context the artwork of Colombian photographers covering art, fashion, photojournalism, architecture, advertising, ethnography and visual anthropology. This issue examines the richness and contemporariness of the visual narrative masterly managed by Duque (b. Colombia 1968) presenting a representative selection of digital images where "ideas are authentic and images, fiction". Her photographic "pictures" are a constant confrontation between high Western culture and its myths and the spatial and social dystopia of Colombia.

ISBN: 9789187939129

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