Franck and Olivier Turpin
Franck et Olivier Turpin are Triangle France Residents in 1996. The archives of Triangle-Astérides do not allow for the determination of the exact dates or the duration of this residency in 1996.
Franck and Olivier Turpin were born in Hennebont in 1964, they live and work in Paris (FR)
After studying respectively at the Fine Arts schools of Lorient and Angers, they began working together as a duo in 1996. They explore the theme of the double and identity by staging themselves in videos set in natural or urban landscapes. Françoise Parfait, writing in the journal Vertigo, notes that they “are artists, brothers and twins: they have made these last two natural facts both the pretext and the means of their artistic approach. In the manner of Gilbert and George or of John Wood and Paul Harrison, who are neither brothers nor twins but who work together, their practice is performative in nature and the body plays the central role.”
They are brought together here in residence at L’Aparté for a new, entirely original project that creates a dialogue between flat space, volume, and video. The residency hosts them over a six-week period during which they develop a series titled MODULATION PAINTING. The body in the landscape is at the origin of this work. It begins with a photographic image painted on canvas, then duplicated in negative on wooden panels of the same size, cut out and assembled with piano hinges to become sculptures that can be handled by the public for video recordings. This multimedia project offers a sensory experience for the viewer.
Text by Françoise Parfait, “Mesure pour mesure,” Vertigo, October 2007.