Luciano Rigolini Explained

Luciano Rigolini
Birth Date:	2 August 1950
Birth Place:	Tesserete, Ticino, Switzerland
Nationality:	Swiss
Known For:	Documentary production, photography

Luciano Rigolini (born 2 August 1950)^[1] is a Swiss artist, photographer, bookmaker, producer, and former commissioning editor at Arte in Paris.

Life and work

He studied cinema but soon turned to photography.

In 1995 he joined the documentary unit of the European television channel Arte in Paris, where he was responsible for creative author film development until 2015.^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} He produced films by filmmakers such as Chris Marker, Alexandre Sokourov, Naomi Kawase, Chantal Akerman, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Tsai Ming-liang, Laurie Anderson.^[6] He is the author of Arte of Collection Photo, 12 documentaries on the history of photography from its origins to today with the scientific collaboration of Quentin Bajac.^[7]

Since 2002 he has been working in photography exclusively through appropriation and rereading of amateur images and industrial documents. His work is also expressed through several author's books. Parr and Badger include Surrogates (2012) in the third volume of their photobook history. They write: "In Surrogates, he has taken as his source imagery spare parts for vintage cars available for sale on eBay. He then retouches and greatly enlarges them, presenting them on plain or colour-field backgrounds so that they become re-contextualized as formal images, stripped from their former function".^[8] Private/Used (2013) is a book of photographs of women in lingerie, selling their used underwear on eBay.^[9] Mask (2015) is a collection of grilles of cars made in Detroit between 1955 and 1962.^[9]

He taught Cinema and Photography in several Universities, including the Rice University of Houston, the Sci-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture), the Head (Geneva University of Art and Design)^[10] and the Documentary Master of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.^[11]

Publications

• Luciano Rigolini: Fotografie '90–'92. Lugano:, 1992. . Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano, 1992/93. German and Italian.
• Luciano Rigolini: Città aperta-Open City, Photographs 1990-1995. Catalog, Houston: Farish Gallery, Rice University School of Architecture, 1995.
• Une Tour. Paris: Edition Textuel, 2001. .
• Ritmo 04. Museo Cantonale d’Arte, 2004.^[12]
• La forma dello sguardo. Mendrisio Academy Press, 2007. .
• What you see. Fotostiftung Schweiz and Lars Müller publisher, 2008. .
• Another image. Skira, 2011. .
• Surrogates. Paris: Centre Culturel Suisse; Lausanne: Musée de l'Elysée, 2012. .^[8]
• Private/Used. Zurich: Patrick Frey, 2013. .^[9]
• Mask. Zurich: Patrick Frey, 2015. .^[9]
• AS 15-16. Zurich: Patrick Frey, 2018. .
• Inexplicata Volantes. Tokyo: Akio Nagasawa Publishing, 2022.^[13]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• Luciano Rigolini: Fotografie ’90–’92,, Lugano, 1992^[14]
• Luciano Rigolini, Città aperta-Open City, Photographs 1990-1995, Farish Gallery, Rice University School of Architecture, Houston, 1995^[15]
• Luciano RIgolini. Photographs 1990-1995, Foto Forum, St. Gallen, 1996
• , Winterthur, 2008^[16]
• Luciano Rigolini. Another image, Max Museo-Spazio Officina, Chiasso, 2011.^[17]
• Surrogates, Centre Culturelle Suisse, Paris, 2012^[18]
• Luciano Rigolini, Concept Car, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, 2012-13.^[19]
• Luciano Rigolini – Landscape, Buchmann Art Galerie, Lugano, 2015.^[20]

Group exhibitions

• La fotografia contemporanea della collezione Gernsheim, Magazzini del sale, Venezia, e Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, 1995^[21]
• Architecture in black and white, Kunst- und Austellungshalle, der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 1997
• Il San Gottardo come arteria, Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, 1997^[22]
• Icons: magnets of meaning, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1997^[23]
• Zürich-Ein Fotoprtrait, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1997^[24]
• Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, 2017^{[25] [26]}
• Fotografia Europea-European Photography, Galleria Gottardo, Reggio Emilia, 2017^[27]
• Pendulum. Moving goods, moving people, Fondazione Mast, Bologna, 2018^[28]
• Moonstruck: Photographic Explorations, Fotostiftung Schweiz, Winterthur, 2019^[29]

Films

• Documenta 7 (1982) – director; about Documenta 7
• Portraits, 10 Swiss Artists Today (1987) – director^[30]
• The worlds of silence (2001) – director (with Silvana Bezzola)^[31]
• Naomi Kawase, Kya ka ra ba (2001) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian, Images d’orient-Tourisme vandale (2001) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Alexandre Sokourov, Elegie de la traversée (2001) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Serguei Dvortsevoi, In the dark (2002) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Avi Mograbi, August, A moment before the eruption (2002) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Chantal Akerman, De l’autre côté (2002) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Chris Marker, Chats Perches (2004) – commissioning editor Arte France
• David Teboul, Bania (2005) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Lech Kowalski, East of paradise (2005) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Naomi Kawase, Tarachime (2006) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Naomi Kawase, Chiri (2012) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mekong Hotel (2012) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Photo l’Integrale. Les Gands courants Photographiques, Une collection documentaire proposée par Luciano Rigolini, Arte France Editions, Paris (2009-2013)
• Tsai Ming-linag, Walker-Journey to the west (2014) – commissioning editor Arte France
• Laurie Anderson, Heart of a dog (2015) – commissioning editor Arte France^[32]
• Innocence of Memories (2015) – executive producer^[33]

Notes and References

1. Web site: 2022-01-29. Fotostiftung: Luciano Rigolini. Fotostiftung.
2. Web site: 2022-01-28. Luciano Rigolini démissionne d'Arte. 5 November 2015. Télérama.
3. News: 2022-01-28. Fini de « rigoliner » à Arte. Le Monde. 4 November 2015.
4. Web site: 2022-01-29. La Lucane - Tribute to Luciano Rigolini. Taiwan International Documentary Festival.
5. Web site: 2022-01-29. Merci Luciano Rigolini et longue vie à La Lucarne sur Arte !. 23 December 2015. Scam.
6. Web site: 2022-01-29. Luciano Rigolini. Sarajevo Film Festival.
7. Web site: Collection «Photo».
8. Book: Martin. Parr . Gerry. Badger . Martin Parr . Gerry Badger . The Photobook: A History, Volume III . London . Phaidon . 2014 . 301 . 978-0-7148-6677-2.
9. Web site: 2022-01-28. Luciano Rigolini, le photographe et "La lucarne". 19 April 2015. Télérama.
10. Web site: 2022-06-18. Huit films du Département sélectionnés aux 47es Journées de Soleure. HEAD Genève.
11. Web site: 2022-06-18. Máster en Documental de Creación. UPF.
12. Web site: 2022-06-18. Ritmo 04. edcat.net.
13. Web site: 2022-12-21. Inexplicata Volantes. akionagasawa.com.
14. Book: Luciano Rigolini: fotografie '90-'92.. Museo Cantonale d'Arte. Lugano. 81900321 . Open WorldCat.
15. Book: Portfolio: Luciano Rigolini, Città aperta-Open City, Photographs 1990-1995..
16. Web site: 2022-01-29. Fotostiftung: Luciano Rigolini. Fotostiftung.
17. Book: Luciano Rigolini: An Other Image.. Skira.
18. Web site: 2022-01-29. Surrogates. ccsparis.com.
19. Web site: 2022-06-18. Luciano Rigolini, Concept Car. elysee.ch.
20. Web site: 2022-01-29. Luciano Rigolini. buchmanngalerie.com.
21. Book: Catalgoue: Contemporary Photography, Roemer-Museum, Hildesheim, 1995..
22. Book: San Gottardo.. 88-86455-08-9.
23. Book: Zürich.. 0-8118-1857-8.
24. Book: Zürich.. 3-907495-79-9.
25. Web site: 2022-01-29. Spoiler alert: Fondation Cartier's blockbuster car photography show gets into gear. 24 April 2017. Wallpaper*.
26. News: 2022-01-29. Autophoto: how photographers fell in love with cars – in pictures. The Guardian. 17 April 2017. 0261-3077.
27. Web site: 2022-06-18. Fotografia Europea 2017. fotografiaeuropea.it.
28. Web site: 2022-06-18. Pendulum. Merci e persone in movimento. Immagini dalla collezione di fondazione Mast. arte.it.
29. Web site: 2022-06-18. Moonstruck: Photographic Explorations. Fotostiftung.
30. Web site: 2022-01-29. Portraits, 10 Swiss Artists Today (1987). Radio Times.
31. Web site: 2022-06-18. The Words of Silence. psu.edu.
32. Web site: 2022-06-18. How a 68-Year-Old Novice Filmmaker Made One of the Best Movies of the Year. indiewire. 30 October 2015 .
33. Web site: 2022-04-17. Innocence of Memories – Full Cast & Crew. IMDB.