François – Marie Banier

More than 180 pieces illustrate the photographic and pictorial work by FranÁois-Marie Banier in an exhibition at the Triennale of Milan and at the Mudima Foundation through an artistic path of black and white, written, painted photographs and oil paintings.
Through the two expositon venues, the exhibition by Dominique Stella and Gino di Maggio, produced by the Centre Culturel FranÁais of Milan and by the Mudima Foundation, offers the opportunity of seeing and analyzing the work of a French artist who is nowadays renowned for the originality of his work.
In the venue of Triennale of Milan there are 130 works: black and white photographs, written photographs and painted photographs that represent two decades of FranÁois-Marie Banier’s work. At the Mudima Foundation 50 works can be admired, they consist of both oil canvas and painted photographs, all made in recent years.
The works by FranÁois-Marie Banier exhibited in the halls of Triennale and at the Mudima Foundation come from the Centro Culturale della Recoleta of Buenos Aires in Argentina where the show had been opened to the public in March and April 2000, previously presented at the Pinacoteca of San Paolo in Brazil in 1999, at the Modern Art Museum of Rio De Janeiro inl 1999 and at the Wurttembergischer Kunstverein of Stuttgart in Germany in 1998-1999.