Colin Lusinchi

Biography

Colin Lusichi’s practice includes photographs, videos, sculptures and installations.

A recent work titled ‘Silver Captures’ is a series of salt paper prints from Google Earth screenshots. The capture made on Google's 3D software is printed in negative on a transparency. The printing technique (based on salt and silver nitrate) is older than the invention of photography and was widely used in the mid 19th century. This reconciliation of almost two centuries of history of the photographic image opposes the time of the screenshot to the time of the artisanal printing. It is a matter of making material and immutable, in the sense that printing with silver chloride spans the centuries, immaterial, intangible images.

It is a question of rendering material and immutable, in the sense that silver chloride printing over the centuries, immaterial, impalpable images. The framing of these photographs pays homage to the Parisian photographers of the second half of the 19th century (Gustave Le Gray, Henri Le Secq, Edouard Baldus).

 After complete a BA in Applied Arts at the Lycée Denis Diderot in Marseille, he entered the Arts Décoratifs de Paris in the Art Espace sector. There, he developed a work on the mediation of modern and contemporary art, exploring existing works and the discourse they generate and their multiple receptions.  Graduating in 2014, he further developed his research whilst working alongside Parisian dealers, experts and collectors, who had an interest in 19th century photographic prints. During this time, Colin is familiarising himself in the techniques of photogrammetry, 3D printing and augmented reality in a sculptural perspective. He develops an aesthetic of decimation, which takes into account the impact of new digital tools on our heritage and environment.

 In April 2019 he co-founded a multidisciplinary collective "Le Transmutateur", a platform for dissemination and creation, in residence at the Berthelot Jean Guerrin municipal theatre in the city of Montreuil (93) from October 2019 to June 2020.

Exhibitions

 2018 / ZONAMACO CONTEMPORANEO ART FAIR with gallery du Palace / (Mexico MEXICO)

2016 / TRANSMISSION / (Collective exhibition) - GALLERY 71 (Montreuil FRANCE)