COLLECTIVE - Exhibition 11-21 December 2014 + Auction and Silent auction open until Friday, 19th December 4pm

Perth Centre for Photography's annual group exhibition and auction showcasing an eclectic mix of some of the best photographic art from Australia and beyond.

EXHIBITING ARTISTS 2014
Jacqueline Ball, Kevin Ballantine, Olga Cironis, Christophe Canato, David Collins, Rebecca Dagnall, Sam Harris, Dan McCabe, Graham Miller, Jim Naughten, Justin Spiers, Juha Tolonen, Christopher Young, Panizza Allmark, Troy Allwright, Ryan Ammon, Phoebe Avenue, Svetlana Bailey, Justin Barnes, Chloe Bartram, David Jo Bradley, Paul Batt, Lyle Branson, Arno Blax, Jaryd Brazier, Shannon Calcott, Darren Clayton, Caroline Day, Simon Deadman, Dominika Debska, Renee Doropoulos, Melissa Eder, Jane Finlay, Suzie Fox, Daniel Gerwien, Kristian Häggblom, Alice Harris, Paris Hawken, Alan Hill & Kelly Hussey-Smith, Pablo Hughes, Sarah Landro, Joseph Landro, Ireneusz Luty, Rebecca Mansell, Daniel Marano, Julian Masters, Caroline McGrath, Kirstyn McMullan, Jason Moffatt, Emiko Monobe, Guido Nigro, Mark Parfitt, Ché Parker, Sandhya Porritt, Harrison Reid Sadler, Johannes Reinhart, Tim Sexton, Darren Smith, Justin Spiers, Suellen Symons, Ebony Talijancich, Lolly Tarver, Geneviève Thauvette, Nina Thomas, Christine Tomás, Rhiannon Tully,  Gwenaël Velge, Dianna Wells, Josh Wells, Angela Welyczko, James Whineray, Emily Willis, Duncan Wright, Fabien Zuffo Deschamps 

Christophe Canato $2000 winner of the Popular Choice Award with EXOSKELETON + $3000 commissioned artist to produce an artwork for the City of Joondalup Inside-Out Billboard for display from March 2015 - City of Joondalup. COMMUNITY INVITATION ART AWARD 2014

EXOSKELETON #" © Christophe Canato

About Community Invitation Art Award
About City of Joondalup Inside-Out Billboard for display 

2014 City of Joondalup COMMUNITY INVITATION ART AWARD - Christophe Canato finalist

EXOSKELETON #2 (selfportrait) artist suffering from recent Sudden Hearing Loss diagnosis.

The city of Joondalup is back with one of the most prestigious art prize in Western Australia.

On it’s new concept, the Community Invitation Art Award exhibits the works of thirteen professional artists from across Western Australia working in a variety of different mediums.

Each invited artists have been asked to submit three works.

With a spiritual aproach of the exoskeleton, in this case represented by the different stages of the sea urchins’s life, Christophe Canato has developed three interpretations from larva to shell.

In EXOSKELETON #3, Sea Urchin Larvae, from latin « ghost mask » (originally denoting a disembodied spirit), a human body is levitating in a fluorescent swarm of sea urchin larvae.

EXOSKELETON #1, Walyungup salt lake, questioning about our origins, our belonging and future.

About Community Invitation Art Award.

EXOSKELETON - Artist talk, Tuesday 21 October 2014 - 6:30pm at Joondalup Art Gallery.

 In the 2014 City of Joondalup Community Invitation Art Award context - Christophe Canato Artist talks, Tuesday 21 October at 6:30pm at JCAA, Joondalup Art Gallery, 4/48 Central Walk JOONDALUP WA 6027.

 EXOSKELETON - Walyungup salt lake © christophe canato

DIGGING is a 04:03mn video from the RICOCHET series - In collaboration with Sue Peacock.

CLICK HERE FOR VIDEO

INTIMACIES - Vancouver Art Centre, Albany WA - opening 18h30 Wednesday 20 Auguste 2014 - Art On The Move

RICOCHET © christophe canato

Curated by participating artists Christophe Canato and Christine Tomas; Erin Coates, Thea Constantino and  Justin Spiers will present audiences with photomedia art that delves into unconventional notions of intimacy.

INTIMACIES - Alcoa Mandurah Art Gallery WA - opening 18h30 Friday 13 June 2014, guest speaker Christophe Canato Artist-Curator - Art On The Move

© JUSTINE SPIERS - ARTERIAL LINE I

Curated by participating artists Christophe Canato and Christine Tomas; Erin Coates, Thea Constantino and  Justin Spiers will present audiences with photomedia art that delves into unconventional notions of intimacy.

RICOCHET - ANNA PAPPAS Gallery Vic - 29 April 31 May 2014

Christophe Canato Ricochet 2013,
metallic paper, archival pigment print

Christophe Canato’s photographs of boys are not so much portraits as psychological portrayals of the developmental stage that follows infancy and precedes adolescence. These human subjects are complemented by photographs of inanimate forms and structures: dead animals, a bivouac den, a handkerchief containing a tooth and a couple of buttons. Objects that fascinate the mind of a boy but retain little interest for the busy grownup. In this way the artist sets up a dialogue between the adult viewer and the half-remembered period of childhood his photographs evoke.

Shot against a black background with lighting reminiscent of that illuminating the subjects of Renaissance painting, the images are rich and dark. This marks an interesting counterpoint to his previous body of work, Women of Jerusalem, which presented elderly women using high-key lighting and a pure white backdrop. Where that work cast an almost forensic eye on aging as metaphor for the tolls of responsibility and cultural expectation, the new work emerges from an enigmatic obscurity that suggests the uncertain promises of things yet to come.
   
These photographs are brought together under the title of Ricochet, alluding to the uncertain trajectory of pre-p ubescent boyhood. But, as the artist knows from his own upbringing, in France ‘ricochet’ also refers to the pastime of skimming flat pebbles across a still patch of water; a trick that defies the expectation that a stone should always plummet to the bottom. It is these ideas of uncertainty and mystery that bind the series together.

Text by Alasdair Foster, curator, writer and consultant working on projects that build intercultural connections, especial in the Pacific region. He was the founding director of Fotofeis, Europe’s largest photo festival in the 1990s, Director of the Australian Centre for Photography (1998-2011) and Managing Editor of Photofile magazine (1998-2008).

GESTURE (video):

http://www.christophecanato.com/christophecanato_Gestures 28-3.mov

Anna Pappas gallery

OCULA - May 2014

OCULA.COM 

RICOCHET © christophe canato

ART COLLECTOR - publication April 2014

RICOCHET © christophe canato

Christophe Canato’s evocative photographs trigger memories of one’s childhood. This rich series of darkly lit portraits and still life photographs, each piece brimming with a sense of uncertainty and mystery, delves into the psyche of childhood and looks at the fascination and imagination held only within the mind of the child.

Born in France in 1966, Canato grew up in an artistic family, his father a talented painter. At seventeen Canato successfully enrolled in the Beaux-Arts School and went on to complete a Diplôme National Supérieur D'expression Plastique in 1989. Canato lives and works in France and Australia.

Art Collector publication

Queensland photography cutting a cool edge this summer

http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/news/visual-arts/gina-fairley/queensland-photography-cutting-a-cool-edge-this-summer-197941

Ricchochet 4 by Christophe Canto. Courtesy QCP

French-Australian Christophe Canato has lived and worked in Perth since 2005. However it is his life prior that is the inspiration for these photographs. Years of working in the Paris Fashion industry as a freelance photographer, he turns that social, cultural and material affiliation into an examination of our perceptions and auto-educational interpretation of objects and memories – what he describes as synaesthesia associations. These images stimulate our cognitive and sensorial responses, such as desire and salivation.

RICOCHET © christophe canato

RICOCHET - QCP (Queensland Centre for Photography) - January and February 2014

Christophe Canato Ricochet 2013,
metallic paper, archival pigment print

Canato’s series Ricochet alludes to stage play of a Shakespearean vein. As single images they are beautiful, enigmatic studio portraits and still lives, but seen together they are reminiscent of an elaborate storyboard for an unseen greater tale. His ambiguous and luscious photographs, lit in the manner of many renaissance paintings, delve into the psyche of childhood, a time when playing is the most important activity and everything is believable; a time when darkness hides all sorts of threats and time itself seems endless.
Ricochet is one of several French words that retains its spelling and meaning in English, and conjures gunshots ricocheting off all sorts of items in westerns, to make the improbable seem easy. Similarly it is a term that pops up in sporting commentary when a lucky deflection or bounce leads to points. In French, Canato’s first language, it is also used to describe a rock skimming across water, a favourite game of children (and quite a few adults too). In this last incarnation of the word, it takes on an even more magical sense as a rock should surely sink into the water, not dance across its surface. Like the dreams and fears of childhood, the rock defies logic for a short while, before the reality of gravity brings the game to an end.

French-Australian Christophe Canato lives and works in Perth, Western Australia since 2005. After receiving his DNSEP in 1989 (comparable to a Master degree in Fine Arts) and in 1993 a Diploma of Fashion from the prestigious Institut Français de la Mode (French Fashion Institute), Canato has drawn on his background in the Paris Fashion industry.