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"Antoine d’AGATA and Francis Bacon: aesthetic parallel of two visceral works. 'The first painter’s exhibition I visited was a retrospective of Bacon at MoMA in 1989. It was a shock from which I still haven’t recovered.' (© Antoine d'AGATA) Antoine d’AGATA is a photographer who lives on the edge. He immerses himself in his personal universes, until he exhausts them. He transforms reality with the help of time, and shows us facts, events, mixed textures or diffuse colors that shape human forms that get lost. In some of Francis Bacon’s works, we can see these photographs of d’AAGTA, the same worlds full of chiaroscuro, continuous ups and downs towards hell, and this attempt to lengthen the moment of joy or solitude.
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Bringing together 27 photographs by Antoine d’AGATA and 25 graphic works by Francis Bacon, this bilingual French-English work, presented in the form of a double book, establishes an artistic parallel between the contemporary work of photographer Antoine d’AGATA and the expressionist painting of painter Francis Bacon. The two books, bound together, can be consulted side by side, allowing one to create a vis à vis between the works of the two artists. The texts are presented on autonomous notebooks so that it is possible to read the text while browsing through the visual narrative.