Description

Since initiating their collaboration, artists Tina Berning and Michelangelo Di Battista have tread terrain that has captivated them ever since. Ignoring the ways that computers can manipulate images, the two combine drawing and photography to create anachronistic, analogue works. The artists alter women's faces-either captured by Di Battista's camera or applied directly to a photograph-leaving behind disturbing traces. These fractures and voids, however, seem to make them even more beautiful, lending their faces a touching profundity. What appears to be a mask does not conceal anything, but rather brings a kind of authenticity to light. The two artists time and again transgress the boundaries of their respective disciplines as they sort out their stance within the contemporary context in which beauty is defined. Their multifaceted approaches are assembled together for the first time in this monograph.