Fine Art Editon
From series Nostalgia
Richeille and I are taking a few years to explore sentimental longing, feelings of pleasure, the wistful affection we have for the past and for a period or place.
We salvage artifacts of the past for entertainment, to calm present anxieties. We discuss the present in terms of the past, and we judge the present by the standards of long ago. Discussions of movies and television and music tend to begin with the question, “Remember when?” Those words summon happy thoughts. Or perhaps we return to the past because we are expert in it. Nostalgia waxes as the traditional understanding of time wanes. Human beings are temporal creatures. We need ways to understand and to order the past, the present, and the future. Nostalgia, most truly and most meaningfully, is the emotional experience —always momentary, always fragile — of having what you lost or never had, of seeing what you missed seeing, of meeting the people you missed knowing.
Are we Nostalgic because we are unhappy with the present or are frustrated because we are so nostalgic? Through art we hope to unearth these fleeting feelings that overcome us, and to create work that connects us.
Photographs that delve into the tension between reality and myth, and the fabricated and authentic, Formento + Formento, our husband and wife team, allows for a spattering of ambiguity that has uncertain intention and unexpected consequences. We want to push reality into something more fantastical, explore the emotional, the psychological, the erotic, the spiritual, where different layers of meaning and language are allowed to mingle and create interesting content.
Furthermore, we want to welcome back in the poetic dimension, which he felt was lacking in the American postmodern photography: “It’s part of what we can bring, what we can add to what’s already been done – it’s a different type of sensibility.”
Each artwork is hand signed and hand numbered in limited edition.
All photographs are ready to hang out of box printed on archival pigment prints mounted on aluminum under plexiglass. (Rolled prints are also available if you have your own framer)
Complimentary shipping is offered worldwide.
From placement of order please allow up to 1-2 weeks for production, all shipping insured under DHL.
Custom sizes, borders and framing are available upon email request to info@formento2.com
All works are made to order so please note that all sales are final, but as long as we are alive we will replace said edition for any damage for 20% of purchase price.
Price: $3,000.00