Carle-Catafago, ChristianLebanon, 1968
“The metal remembers and teaches. It remembers the bullets as they penetrate its shining surface, thus capturing the impacting memory; it holds within it the significance of that moment, its inerasable trace.
In continuity with his decades long worldwide photographic recollection of Wall traces as signifiers, Carle-Catafago sets out with “SINCE THE END” on another dimension by producing his own marks of remembrance and signification.
As the 40 pieces of copper intervention from the “SINCE THE END” series represents the period from 1975 till 2015, each becomes the materialization of a specific sublimation, allowing it to make its way out of his unconscious and onto the surface, in what becomes a work of recollection and conscious exploration of one’s memory, that also attempts to reach a wider understanding of its very mechanisms.“
Born in1968, Christian Carle-Catafago has specialized in Urban and Landscape visual art, stongly influenced in this by his architecture teacher, the philosopher Paul Virilio.
Carle-Catafago has exhibited his works on divided cities, traces of war, landscapes of South America and other related subjects in France, Lebanon, Germany, Argentina through 14 solo exhibitions and more than 15 group exhibitions since 1996.His works and books are in the collections of the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (MEP) and the Centre Canadien d'Architecture (CCA) and has been awarded prizes and grants for his work by the European Union, UNDP, Fujifilm and other institutions.He holds a Master in Architecture/Urbanism (ESA), an MBA (ESCP), a Master in Finance (ESCP) and a Master in Clinical Coaching and Consulting (INSEAD).
Carle-Catafago has exhibited his works on divided cities, traces of war, landscapes of South America and other related subjects in France, Lebanon, Germany, Argentina through 14 solo exhibitions and more than 15 group exhibitions since 1996.His works and books are in the collections of the Maison Europeenne de la Photographie (MEP) and the Centre Canadien d'Architecture (CCA) and has been awarded prizes and grants for his work by the European Union, UNDP, Fujifilm and other institutions.He holds a Master in Architecture/Urbanism (ESA), an MBA (ESCP), a Master in Finance (ESCP) and a Master in Clinical Coaching and Consulting (INSEAD).
