Sebastian Magnani

Sebastian Magnani - Tuning Day, Photography 2023

2023

Available in three editioned sizes, With self-adhesive COA (Certificate of Authenticity) Available sizes: 31.5” x 23.62” (80 x 60 cm) - Edition of 7 47.24” x 35.43” (120 x 90 cm) - ...

Available in three editioned sizes, With self-adhesive COA (Certificate of Authenticity) Available sizes: 31.5” x 23.62” (80 x 60 cm) - Edition of 7 47.24” x 35.43” (120 x 90 cm) - ...

Available in three editioned sizes, With self-adhesive COA (Certificate of Authenticity) Available sizes: 31.5” x 23.62” (80 x 60 cm) - Edition of 7 47.24” x 35.43” (120 x 90 cm) - ...

Available in four editioned sizes, With self-adhesive COA (Certificate of Authenticity) Available sizes: 27.56" x 20.67" (70 x 52.5 cm) - Edition of 10 34.65" x 25.98" (88 x 66 cm) ...

Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue III’, 2017 Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry. Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls). Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017 Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag 40.5 x 30.5 cm Unique Series: The Sialia Marbles Signed and dated on verso "I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...

Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017 Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry. Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls). Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017 Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag 40.5 x 30.5 cm Unique Series: The Sialia Marbles Signed and dated on verso "I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...

Influorescense - A limited edition large scale photography collaboration by Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis. The series takes its name from the marriage of two words. Fluorescence (me...

Influorescense - A limited edition large scale photography collaboration by Tom Blachford and Kate Ballis. The series takes its name from the marriage of two words. Fluorescence (me...