With a penchant for the whirls of fortune and a clin d’oeil to the relativity of vision, Christian Tagliavini issues his very own “Carte”. The title means “playing cards”, but cards, markings and figures do keep their names and mystery in Italian. You’ll meet characters clad in imaginary, timeless, paper and textile costumes with selected accents of colour making an original and voluptuous code of décor. Their bodies are real, while their gestures surrender, threaten, implore, betray, poison, seduce or irresistibly elude the viewer. They all live in a visible but not tangible territory between bi- and tri-dimensional - totally created, materially hand-crafted and immortalized by the author with the final photographic “click”. We could say that Christian once again explored the paradoxical limits of flat and thick to invent something like flathickness.
