Fernando Marante

Super happy for having my work featured on Archivo Papers. Download link in bio!“The search for a hypothesis-image” is a visual essay that that leads us on a short ride through the issues, mechanisms and obsessions that unite my body of work. Thank you Ana Catarina Pinho and Paula Ramos Lobo, editors of this visual arts journal. #fernandomarante #archivopapersjournal @archivopapersjournal @archivoplatform #experimentalphotography #chronophotography

Exercise on gravity #40 (photograph, 2022) Showing at Ballet Mécanique, Bigaignon (Paris) Introducing the work of Fernando Marante, shown for the first time at the gallery, in an exhibition focused on movement, named after Fernand Léger’s famous experimental film (1924). This “Ballet Mécanique”, driven by the need for research, invention and experimentation with the very materiality of the cinematographic device, perfectly illustrates the intention of transfiguring time and movement into a visual essay that the images of Fernando Marante evoke. His works dialogue with a couple of works by Hans Kooi, a Dutch artist of the kinetic movement. Tuesday-Saturday 11-19H, until May 28 #fernandomarante #bigaignon #hanskooi @bigaignon_ @hans_kooi

Exhibition »Ballet Mécanique», by Fernando Marante, with the participation of Hans Kooi. April 18th - May 28th, 2023. Showing in this post: Studies on the possibility of movement #17 (photographs, 2017) . (EN) This exhibition focused on movement, named after Fernand Léger famous experimental film (1924), driven by the need for research, invention and experimentation with the very materiality of the cinematographic device, perfectly illustrates the intention of transfiguring time and movement into a visual essay that the images of Fernando Marante evoke. . (FR) Cette exposition qui tire son nom du célèbre film expérimental de Fernand Léger (1924), mu par des exigences de recherche, d’invention et d’expérimentation de la matérialité même du dispositif cinématographique, illustre parfaitement l’intention de transfiguration du temps e du mouvement en essai visuel qu’évoquent les images de Fernando Marante. Tuesday-Saturday 11-19h, until May 28 . @bigaignon_ @hans_kooi @galleriesnow @marais.guide  @slash.paris @agencedezarts @maraisculture #fernandomarante #bigaignon #art #exhibition #artist #collector #collection #artcollection #kineticart

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Let us start with a hypothesis: how can we capture the presence of things in the world beyond the photographic snapshot? These studies are one approach to answering this question and will be on display at the Rhinoceros space in Rome until 18 November. The exhibition is a collaboration between @bigaignon and the Jean Nouvel-designed space. ATTO 1/3: SOTTO LA LUCE is an exhibition dedicated to light and is the first in a trilogy that will continue until March 2026. On view: Studies on the Possibility of Movement (Photographs, 2017). #rhinocerosroma #bigaignon #fernandomarante

in opera. 2025. #fernandomarante #chronophotography

“From where we stand the ground escapes us”, as stated by Martin Heidegger, is a play around lines and vertigo. I’m delighted that this polyphtic can be revisited at the Bonisson Art Center, in an exhibition curated by Thierry Bigaignon, appropriately called “Ligne(s) de Mire”. Images 1 and 2: Copyright Denis Faravel pour le Bonisson Art Center. #fernandomarante #bigaignon #bonissonartcenter @bigaignon_

Thrilled to have this image featured on the cover of American Express Centurion magazine. This photograph shows the traces of light left on Lisbon’s sky by the growing traffic of airplanes in its airport. It also echoes my work’s obsession with movement. A piece of this series was shown a few months ago in my solo show at Bigaignon (Paris). More info can be obtained through the gallery’s website. Last but not least, a big thank you to Martin Kreuzer for picking up this image! #fernandomarante #bigaignon @bigaignon_ #centurionmagazine @martin.kreuzer

Ballet Mécanique 20 (Photograph, 2019). Image from the studies on movement series, exclusively (and proudly) issued for L'And Vineyards Hotel - Exclusive Wine Retreat, in Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal). #fernandomarante #landvineyards

The question concerning the thing (Photograph, 2019). Live from the archive, this is an image that ended up not being on the exhibition I did at Módulo that same year. The image shares its title with the exhibition, hence the curiosity of the thing. This project was, actually, one of the four winners of the Paris Photo Carte Blanche Prize in 2019. This is what could be read on the paper both in the white cube and at the Grand Palais: "Starting from the assumption that there is no such thing as an abstract photograph, because every single one has a direct connection to its referent on the physical world, these series of images propose to operate a game: at the same time they search for an identification and they escape from it. We know they are representing a thing, but the image is ambivalent about that thing. They have a disturbed relation with codes and to what they look like. These hypothesis-images, an accumulation of movement and duration, synthesized by the mechanical eye of the photographic camera, exist only as a theoretical possibility in the world of objects. As a visual essay, lending its name from Heidegger’s famous course “Die Frage nach dem Ding”, the images are more interested in the question - What is a thing? - than on its answers". #fernandomarante

Study on movement (Photograph, 2023) #fernandomarante

Exercice on gravity (Photograph, 2022)