{"title":"Massao Mascaro","description":"\u003cp\u003eMassao Mascaro (b. 1990, Lille) is a Brussels-based photographer who studied at Le 75 in Brussels and Blank Paper Escuela in Madrid. His work begins with territory — gardens, streets, public parks — treating these spaces as recurring, almost mythical sites rather than bounded locations. His series \u003cem\u003eJardin\u003c\/em\u003e received the BOZAR Monography Series Award in 2016 and was presented at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, in 2017. The related photobook was published in 2019 by Witty Books and L’éditeur du dimanche in an edition of 500 copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe material gathered here records that practice through gallery-issued artist cards and printed ephemera.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"massao-mascaro-untitled-jardin-25-galerie-c-2016","title":"MASSAO MASCARO — Untitled (Jardin #25), 2016. Galerie C Contemporary Art","description":"\u003cp\u003eGalerie C Contemporary Art. Gallery-issued artist card pairing a photograph from Massao Mascaro’s \u003cem\u003eJardin\u003c\/em\u003e series with a blind-embossed quotation by Francis Ponge. Monochrome offset print on heavily textured card stock, 14.5 × 21 cm. Photographic image to recto; blind embossing and printed production credits to verso.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCondition: Very good. Light handling, faint surface marks and minor edge wear. The low-contrast embossed text remains clearly impressed into the paper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Lille in 1990 and based in Brussels, Mascaro studied photography at Le 75 before continuing at Blank Paper Escuela in Madrid. His work frequently begins with territory: \u003cem\u003eJardin\u003c\/em\u003e locates the garden not as a bounded plot but as a recurring, almost mythical space encountered across Madrid’s streets and public parks. The project received the BOZAR Monography Series Award in 2016 and was presented at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, the following year.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe card predates the 2019 photobook, published in an edition of 500 copies by Witty Books and L’éditeur du dimanche. It places the photograph beside Ponge’s language without turning either into explanation: image on one face, an almost invisible text physically pressed into the other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGalerie C later presented \u003cem\u003eJardin #25\u003c\/em\u003e as a 150 × 100 cm gelatin silver print dated 2024, edition 1\/3 plus two artist’s proofs. Here the same image remains in its earlier, portable form — photograph, literary citation and gallery identity carried on a single sheet of card.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSecurely packed; tracked UK and international shipping available.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galerie C Contemporary Art","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54034657968466,"sku":"MASCARO-GALERIEC-INV-2016","price":95.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0991\/5636\/1554\/files\/Mascaro_Mascaro._Show_invite._2016.jpg?v=1784356969"}],"url":"https:\/\/thenewrare.com\/collections\/massao-mascaro.oembed","provider":"The New Rare","version":"1.0","type":"link"}