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Francisco Infante
Description
- Francisco Infante
- Life of a Triangle the series ARTIFACTS, 1976
- signed, titled, and inscribed in Cyrillic and dated 1976, also marked with artist's stamp (on the reverse)
cybachrome print
- 19 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
- 49.5 by 49.5 cm
Literature
Francisco Infante ARTIFACTS retrospective, Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, 2004, p.165, illustrated
Catalogue Note
Since 1975, Infante has focused on the creation of Artifacts, which, as presented in photographs, document open-air installations, juxtaposing artificial objects with nature. In Infante's words, "Artifacts are types of installations that exist for the sole purpose of being photographed. In these works the symbols of technology and nature coexisted, expressing the finite and the infinite, respectively." Describing these works' relation to nature, he explained: "In the context of the ARTIFACT as an already developed artistic system, nature and the artifact operate on an equal footing, supplementing each other."
The present lot synthesizes a traditional photographic landscape and an artificial environment created by the artist with the help of mirrors. The result is a doubly reflected image that thus becomes an "Artifact." As the artist has remarked, "The penetrative quality of mirror Artifacts (in addition to their geometrical appearance) lies in the fact that their mirror surface reflects the same nature in which they are located, but at the same time always reflects it with a DISCRETE displacement."