ANTOINE D’AGATA X CHARLES BAUDELAIRE

For Charles Baudelaire, the photographic medium (then from the beginning) was not an art but a technical means of representing reality. Yet it is a contemporary photographer, Antoine d’Agata, who today revisits Baudelaire’s texts and universe. As a counterpoint to Baudelaire, d’Agata reworks his own photographs through digital intervention to return to engraving, as if to move from the pixel to the line of the time. He pushes photography to its limits, mistreats it, does violence to it, discards the medium to return to the raw, to the essential, to the material, to a purified line.