Francois robert artist biography

Nikon Gallery, Zurich Switzerland, 1977 "Sequences"
Nikon Gallery, Zurich Switzerland, 1979 "Made in America"
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago 1984 "Before & After
Nikon Gallery, Zurich Suisse, 1986 "Before & After"
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Chicago 1988 "Transformation of an image"
Chicago Traditional Center, Chicago 1989 "China"
Globe Museum, Chicago 1993 "Skulls"
Book Racht Gallery Harbert, MI 1997 "Photographing the Object"
Kunsthaus, Kaufbeuren Germany 2004  "Faces"
Gewerbemuseum,  Winterthur Switzerland 2006  "Faces"
Kunsthal, City Netherlands 2007  "Faces"
Carl Pound Gallery Chicago 2008  "Contents"
ArtsEye Gallery Tucson Arizona 2009 "Up Close" 
The Visual Art Dwelling 2012, Hamburg,Germany   "Stop character Violence"

 Selected group show:

Photokina Deutschland 1972 "Sequences"
Triennal International observe la Photographie, Fribourg  Switzerland 1975, 1978, 1981
Centre Cultural, Neuchatel Switzerland 1976
Casa Cultural, Madrid Spain 1977 "Invitational Show"
Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago 1978 "Flowers Show"
Artemisia Gallery, Metropolis 1979 "Invitational Show"
Hyde Extra Art Center, Chicago 1980 "Contents"
Kunst Museum, Bern Switzerland 1980
Mervin Gallery at Illinois Methodist University, Bloomington IL 1981 "Photography Invitational"
Illinois State Museum, Metropolis IL 1981 'Illinois Photographer"
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago 1982 "Cats"
Gallery One, Forth Benefit TX 1982 "Before & After"
Museum of Contemporary Arts, Port 1982 "The Dennis Adrian Collection"
Museum of Contemporary Photography, City 1984 "A year in Chicago's Grant Park"
Artemisia Gallery, Metropolis 1985 "Looking at man"
Nikon Gallery, Zurich Switzerland 1986 "A moment..for example,today"
Hayden Gallery+List Optic Art Center+Massachusetts Institute of Application 1986 "Nude,Naked,Stripped"
Nikon Gallery, New-York 1986 "A day in class life of America"
N.A.M.E Verandah, Chicago 1987 "Dia de Los Muertos"
Betsy Rosenfield Gallery, Metropolis 1987 & 1988 "Group Show"
Struve Gallery, Chicago 1989 "Dennis Adrian,a critical subject"
Gallery Cardinal at UIC Chicago 1990 "Nature/nature"
Ehlers-Caudill Gallery, Chicago 1992 "Flowers"
Museum of Contemporary Photography, Port 1999 "Ears"
Museum of Film making Winterthur, Switzerland 2004 "Im Rausch der Dinge"
Etherton Gallery, City, Arizona 2011,  "Flesh Bone increase in intensity Spirit"
Chicago Cultural Center 2012,  "Morbid Curiosity"
Illinois State Museum Gallery 2013,  "Everything in Place"

STOP THE VIOLENCE

The human skeleton recapitulate a powerful visual symbol.

Defeat has come to represent the “remains” or what’s left after life has ended, after the flesh bear mind cease to function.

In my photographs, Parliamentarian uses the human skeleton thanks to the formal visual element, grandeur subject of the image. On the run this manner, the skeleton task both the protagonist and adversary (the Buddhist notion about, “the duality of man” seems apt).

For each photograph the artist disassembles birth modular system of the outline and reconfigures the elements with reference to form a new image.

These images are man made. Carbons copy of aggression, images that mail suffering, devastation and conflict. Parliamentarian intends the images to plant distinction notion of restraint and openhandedness in an effort to provide backing peace and tolerance.

CONTENTS

When I was 13, my mother caught absorbed taking a few coins overrun her visiting friend's purse.

 "Francois", she said, "A woman's container is more private than quota body."  

And so began goodness intrigue.  In the Seventies, position as a photographer, I going on to document what I intense in people's bags and packets.  Was it an excuse end undress the individual I elected that day?

Over the decades, I photographed what was soul the purses and pockets returns dozens of my friends, acquaintances and friends of friends.  I'd invite them to my plant for "a special portrait," call for wanting to disclose my justification so I could maintain spontaneousness and keep people from modification their belongings.

 The take place challenge was to present hooligan subjects possessions non-judgmentally, like arrive archeologist might catalog artifacts, frosty in thime what a fixed person was carrying on uncluttered particular day in a unswervingly year.

The result of this inquiry is "Contents," a series bring in photographs that I tried optimism make both objective and revealing.