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Lisa II (Usami, Japan)

Medium
Movement
Year
2020
Edition
Various (refer details below)
Dimensions
Various (refer details below)
Condition
excellent
Signed
signed

Medium: Archival pigment print on fine art paper, signed, titled, dated and numbered by the artist on verso.

Editions:
- Small Format: Limited to 8 + 2 AP
- Medium Format: Limited to 12 + 2 AP
- Large Format: Limited to 7 + 2 AP
- XL Format: Limited to 3 + 2 AP
- Special Edition: Limited to 1 + 2 AP

Sizes:
- Small Format: 50.0cm x 76.0cm
- Medium Format: 76.0cm x 114.0cm
- Large Format: 101.0cm x 152.0cm
- XL Format: 152.0cm x 228.0cm
- Special Edition: 239.0cm x 498.0cm

Good To Know: Artwork is shipped directly from the artist's studio.

Series: 36

Arty-Fact: In winter of 2018 through spring of 2019, Formento & Formento returned to Japan but focused on channeling the artist Hokusai and asked what Mt. Fuji meant to them.

They consider Japan their spirit place and are always yearning to come back and go deeper in exploring the culture and the landscape.

This body of work [36] moved the duo out of the city of Tokyo and into the countryside. They wanted to live under the ever-changing appearance of Mt. Fuji and experience its burning energy. The series sought to portray an ambiguous narrative using female models to play out an imagined life under the strength of the mountain and beyond the edge of the frame.

About Formento & Formento

Formento & Formento are known for their romantic and stylish photographs that explore themes of love, loss, longing and the burden of memory. Utilising staged scenes and desaturated colours, the eerie sensuality of their style reveals a fascination with fiction and reality and with mood and texture, where a sense of place figures prominently. Whether they are shooting in America, Europe, Cuba, Mexico, India or Japan, they blend fervent passion for photography and film with a lasting love for one another.

Under the name Formento & Formento, Richeille Formento styles and art directs, while BJ Formento lights and photographs. The images are a mutual portrait - an exchange in which the artist's individualities blur, leaving traces on each other. Together the duo has an enthralling ability to absorb the spirit of a time and place, creating cinematic photographs with a vision that references the past but remains contemporary and highly original.

BJ was born in Hawaii and grew up in the Philippines. After attending the Academy of Arts University of California, he moved to New York, training his eye by working with esteemed photographers such as Richard Avedon, Duane Michals, Mary Ellen Mark and Annie Leibovitz.

London born Richeille graduated with honours from Central St. Martins College of Art before working as an art director and designer.

In 2005, BJ and Richeille met while working together in South Beach, Miami. They admit to love at first sight and were married in New York City three months later.

Their work has been exhibited worldwide and is in permanent collections of International Center of Photography, Moscow Museum of Arts, Currier Museum, Boca Raton Museum, Bruce Museum, Lewben Museum and Musee Des Art Decoratif Paris. They have published "Circumstance: America Down on Bruised Knees" by YK Books (2009) as well as a short film "The Voyage" shown at Cannes Film Festival 2016.

BJ and Richeille live and work in Connecticut.

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