Marianna Gartner
Martin Tadman with Pet Squirrel, 2007 ©Marianna Gartner
Girls with Devil Doll, 2003 ©Marianna Gartner
I first read about Marianna Gartner in Alberto Manguel’s book Reading Pictures. I fell in love with her work. Since, i’ve only found a couple of things about her. Gartner seems to be a ghost artist. Like with her work she invites this ghostly feeling along with eeriness, quizzical and sometimes melancholic. If i’m not mistaken, she works with old photographs and then transfers her chosen subjects into her invented painted worlds. Artnet has some information about her but if anybody knows of some upcoming exhibits or other fun stuff, i would love to catch it, if in close vicinity!
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Is this someone with a similar concept: Rafael Goldchain, http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/i_am_my_family/.
I got drawn in to the work the more I looked at it. I don’t know any more than I saw at The Morning News Web site.
When I got to researching my family story I got back to 1715 and wondered what it would have been like in these days (maybe a bit nasty for us milksops) and how it would be to dress as they did (clammy and scratchy, I would think).
Hi Adam,
Rafel Goldchain’s work is quite nice. I didn’t know his work till The Morning News featured his family series. He has a one page website here: http://www.rafaelgoldchain.com/
but i also found a podcast 45 minute interview at Photography.ca here’s the link: http://www.photography.ca/blog/?p=59