Neglected during his lifetime, the photographic work of Carlo Mollino (1905-1973) is now coveted by both public institutions and private collectors. Mollino, an architect by profession, devoted his life to several passions: racing cars, skiing competition , aircrafts, architecture, furniture design and photography.
If Mollino produced photographic work throughout his life, the pictures presented by a new exhibition at SAGE, in Paris, were made between 1930 and 1950. Many of them were published in “The messaggio della camera obscura” (1950), a major text of Mollino gathering ideas on the aesthetics of photography.
Carlo Mollino was a strange, solitary cosmopolitan from Turin; urban, but sassy, calm, thoughtful and always voyeur, or, as would have said Marcel Duchamp, eternal viewer. Was Carlo Mollino the last dandy of the twentieth century?
“He was not only a great artist, he was a superhero from Turin – dark and irresistible”, once said Paola Antonelli, senior curator at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Carlo Mollino, Baroque !
Through October 1st, 2016
SAGE Paris
1 bis, avenue de Lowendal,
75007 Paris, France
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