I am looking for the name of a photography exhibit as well as the
artist name and any further information (e.g. current work) for an
exhibit that was at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago possibly
in the late 80s or early 90s. It was an exhibit of photo manipulation
and was called something like "Rooms of Love" or "12 Rooms of Love".
The nature of the photography was similar in fashion to this work "You
could leave at any time" at
<http://www.seafairy.com/official/neu/home.php?site=manip_thumbs&m_id=3>.
The MCA's web site <http://www.mcachicago.org/> has a listing of past
exhibits, but does not go back far enough. I have also been
unsuccesfull in obtaining info from the MCA or the web.

Hello.

The exhibit was "Les chambres d'amour" ("Rooms of Love") by Bernard
Faucon of France.

It was displayed as part of a larger exhibition called "Cross
References: Sculpture Into Photography."  The exhibition was held in
1987-1988 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (and also at
the Walker Center in Minneapolis).

From the Chicago Tribune (1988) about the exhibition:

'...One of the most unexpected sculptures is "A Wave of Snow," by the
French artist Bernard Faucon. It is an enormous rectangular glass box
filled with hundreds of pounds of white sugar that he sculpts into a
wave shape using a hair dryer. It is designed to be seen with a set of
16 24-inch-by-24-inch color photographs from Faucon's series "Rooms of
Love," which portray mostly empty rooms where the focus is on light
and color.'
source:  Chicago Tribune, "USING SCULPTURE TO POSE SOME PHOTOGRAPHIC
QUESTIONS," Jan 29, 1988. pg. 47
http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/chicagotribune/abstract/24839365.html?did=24839365&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Jan+29%2C+1988&author=Catharine+Reeve&desc=USING+SCULPTURE+TO+POSE+SOME+PHOTOGRAPHIC+QUESTIONS

According to a German document detailing his career, Faucon's work was
featured in the "Cross references" exhibitions in both Minneapolis and
Chicago:

'1987
...
Walker Art Center-"Cross references, Sculpture into Photography", Minneapolis 
 
Museum of Contemporary Art- "Cross references...", Chicago'
www.bdap.de/pdfartist/faucon.pdf


A French web page has a biography of Bernard Faucon and some photos:
http://www.agence-vu.com/fr/photographes/default.asp?Photographes=36

A Dutch web page also has some of Faucon's photos, including a couple
from "Les chambres d'amour":
http://www.xs4all.nl/~geraci/faucon/faucon.html

It seems that a book of Faucon's "Chambres d'amour" has been
published. A couple copies are listed at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/2841030792/
Amazon France also sells the book and has a cover photo:
http://www.amazon.fr/exec/obidos/ASIN/2841030792/
A 1987 edition is also available on Abebooks.com
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/abe/BookDetailsPL?bi=208989981

Abebooks also has a copy of the "Cross References" exhibition catalog
published in 1987 by the Walker Center in Minneapolis:
http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=259413868

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search strategy:
chicago tribune archives: "rooms of love" 1987, 1988, etc
"bernard faucon" "Sculpture into Photography"
"bernard faucon" "chambres d'amour" chicago

I hope this helps.

Fantastic answer. More information than expected. Very useful.

Thank you for the tip.
-juggler

Actually, there is now an official site to Bernard Faucon. 

http://www.bernardfaucon.net

Full scaled html galeries with almost all his works and family
pictures and a very nice flash "promenade" through the photographer's
universe.

There will be also a big exhibition in Paris this winter. There will
be pictures of course but it is said that Bernard will give away some
of the "mannequins", he used in his pictures.

If you come to Paris....