PHILIPPE FRAGNIERE, GREPPON
Exhibition from 17.01 to 15.02.2014
Kissthedesign gallery presents the first solo show of young swiss photographer Philippe Fragnière *1987, whose work, especially from the serie Snowpark », is regularly published internationally (Wallpaper, Hatje Cantz, etc).
For his exhibition at Kissthedesign, the young ECAL graduate develops a serie of mysterious and slick photographs captured in an environment where susperstitions and beliefs are important, deap-seated in the mountain culture and traditions.
The serie « Greppon » goes through details, everyday habits and catches the magic that the legends and superstitions give them. The short and fragile moments of tension or imbalance thus fixed in time seems to build the core of an incomplete narration.
BIOGRAPHY
Philippe Fragnière *1987 in Veysonnaz (Switzerland). Graduated in 2012 in photography at the ECAL, Lausanne
He lives and works between Lausanne and Veysonnaz as a freelance photographer. Since 2012, he works also as photography assistant at the ECAL.
Since 2011, he takes part to numerous collective exhibitions in Switzerland and Europe, like among others Musée de Bagnes, Ferme-Asile Sion and Galerie Azzedine Alaïa, Paris as well as galeria Corso Como, Milan, with ECAL Photography, etc
His work has been published internationally like a.o in Wallpaper (graduated directory), British Journal of Photography, Nestlé Jubilee project, Fondation Nestlé pour l’Art, « ECAL Photography », Hatje Cantz. Philippe Fragnière also has been distinguished in some prestigious awards like the Raymond Weil international photography award in 2012 as finalist and in 2013 with a special mention at the First Mack Book award London.
