Exhibition: Thursday 16th of February – Saturday 18th of March 2023
Alexandre Biaggi, 14 rue de Seine, 75006 Paris
Choosing a frame for a piece of art is not an easy matter!
Material, proportion, spirit, relief… everything counts.
It’s from the meeting between Julien Drach, photographer, and Patrice Dangel, sculptor, that were born the frames that we’re presenting, each designed specifically for the photographs they enclose.
Les Niobides – I
Pigment print on rag museum paper, then mounted on dibond
51 x 39.3 in. – Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Frame “ROC” Plaster
Ancient sculpture has always fascinated artists, painters, sculptors, and photographers.
It was the main subject in many photographs in the XIXth century (Eugène Atget, Charles Nègre, Edouard Baldus, Roger Fenton…) and in the XXth century as well (Robert Mapplethorpe, Herbert List, Mimmo Jodice…).
It continues to inspire contemporary artist such as Francesco Vezzoli, Jeff Koons, or Daniel Arsham. Julien Drach is no exception to the rule.
It was at the occasion of an artists residency at the Villa Medici in Rome, in 2018, that he photographed the mythical Niobides Square recreated by Balthus during his chairmanship.
These are the photographs we’re presenting today.
Les Niobides – II
Pigment print on rag museum paper, then mounted on dibond
59 x 39.3 in. – Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Frame “CANAL” Bronze
Les Niobides – III
Pigment print on rag museum paper, then mounted on dibond
59 x 39.3 in. – Edition of 8 + 2 AP
Frame “CANAL” Bronze
Patrice Dangel is not the first photographer to explore the art of framing.
Other artists, and not the least, have tried their hand at it. Alberto and Diego Giacometti, Claude Lalanne – among others – have created mirror frames. Rose Adler has framed works of Max Ernst and Francis Picabia.
Made of bronze with an aspect of charred wood or plaster shaping rocks, frames designed by Patrice Dangel embellish Julien Drach artistic world.
Frame “ROC”
Plaster
Heracles Torso
Bronze
