until Sunday June 05 2016

Fondation Cartier pour l'Art contemporain
T : +33 (0)1 42 18 56 50
261, boulevard Raspail
75014 Paris
France

Cali Clair-Obscur

The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents the first international retrospective dedicated to Fernell Franco, a major yet little-known figure of Columbian photography, who passed away in 2006. Born in 1942, he began his career in Cali as a photojournalist and quickly became specialized in the fields of advertising and fashion photography.

His melancholic twilight photographs are inspired by Italian neorealism and film noir, as well as Cali’s art scene, home to many talented artists.
A pioneering experimental artist, Fernell Franco often manipulated his prints, going beyond the limits of documentary photography to create metaphoric, almost pictorial works. His sensitive and singular work places him, without doubt, among the great authors of the universal history of photography.

Curator: Maria Wills Londoño and Alexis Fabry