work
Space Matters
| category | Photography |
| subject | Abstract |
| tags | |
| base | 275 cm |
| height | 76 cm |
| depth | 2 cm |
| year | 2016 |
The project explores the field of perception within scupture, the representation of sculpture manipulated by photography.
The highlighted elements are cut outs from pictures I took of sculptures while I was attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, between 1999 and 2005, when I attentively experimented classical sculptural materials.
During that period, my photocamera has been a major instrument for my sculpting. I used it as a drawing book enabling me to both document my work and gain a deeper knowledge of volumes and forms. I would frequently modify sculptures after viewing the printouts.
Now that time has gone by, sculpture is once again changing its form through photography. As in an alchemical process, photo prints are reviewed, re-examined, cut out and reduced to their essence: the aim is not to regret the past, but to live it with today's eyes, which can reconcile with the cruelty of time, dissect and select what is "worth to be kept".
Such "photomemories" are isolated against a neutral background, which simultaneously fills and creates a gap. A dialogue between form and emptiness, a room for imagination.
The installation is a form, which develops gradually: like a maternal womb.
Single edition - Technique: collage, scraps of analogue photographs on thick paper.
The highlighted elements are cut outs from pictures I took of sculptures while I was attending the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara, between 1999 and 2005, when I attentively experimented classical sculptural materials.
During that period, my photocamera has been a major instrument for my sculpting. I used it as a drawing book enabling me to both document my work and gain a deeper knowledge of volumes and forms. I would frequently modify sculptures after viewing the printouts.
Now that time has gone by, sculpture is once again changing its form through photography. As in an alchemical process, photo prints are reviewed, re-examined, cut out and reduced to their essence: the aim is not to regret the past, but to live it with today's eyes, which can reconcile with the cruelty of time, dissect and select what is "worth to be kept".
Such "photomemories" are isolated against a neutral background, which simultaneously fills and creates a gap. A dialogue between form and emptiness, a room for imagination.
The installation is a form, which develops gradually: like a maternal womb.
Single edition - Technique: collage, scraps of analogue photographs on thick paper.
