Roberto Kusterle - Cartacei film

Roberto Kusterle - Cartacei filmStudio Faganel 2020 Paper is the title of Roberto Kusterle's artist book. The term Paper refers us to the meaning of that adjective, which declares what material something is made of. 'Of paper' means, in fact, and is more often used with a negative nuance, understood as not noble, not concretized and easily perishable. Kusterle tries to give back to the word 'paper' only a positive meaning and restore some significant balances. The images of the

even more distant and the pictures look rather like they were made in the fifties

loss and grief — biblical in its scope

and Chilean hero Condorito

Silkscreen printed hardback

with the earth

We become a tree

like Lee Friedlander (in “America by Car”)

inserted into the back endpaper

the Cologne-based photographer repeatedly noticed Chevrolets

health and development

as well as such contemporary photographers as Laura Letinsky and Jan Groover

including Yayoi Kusama