Exhibitions, Italy, Roma, 19 October 2023
The Experimental Center of Photography edited by Luisa Briganti
Presents
Living Matter by Gianluca Coppeto
Vernissage Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:00 pm
On view from Oct. 20 to Nov. 3, 2023
Free Entrance
"Like leaves we feed on sunlight and believe that there is nothing capable of shading us.
Like leaves we resist the shocks and cling with our strength, we believe that no one will be able to annihilate them.
Like leaves we abandon ourselves to cruelty beyond our control."
The project relates the naked body and the flowing time through a natural grammar, through a biological punctuation, the texture of a leaf.The bulimia of images that surround us and produce the perception of false time eternally present.
Fontcuberta's essay, "the fury of images," points out how the image no longer functions as a portal to open the space of a memory but becomes usable only in the present and then is almost forgotten.
Our body, in "post photography" is forced into an eternal present, the relationship body image time is denied or rather submerged.
The project "Materia Viva" attempts to bring this theme back to the center, representing photos of naked bodies that time itself will alter by etching on the leaf tissues.
The "Materia Viva" project attempts to bring this theme back to the center by representing photos of naked bodies that time itself alters by etching onto the leaf fabrics.
A trans-photographic project that ties in with the experience of Italian informal art in which artists experiment with the ability to express themselves through matter by introducing novel materials ( woods, plastics, jute, metals ).
These materials become important because they are not means but co-protagonists themselves in the work. Burri, a fundamental artist of the Informal Materico, states that" materials do not matter." In reality, the painter means that it is not the materials per se that have meaning as much as the use of them.
The use of the leaf to tell the story of passing time is also a technique that itself requires time and anticipation, loss of control and management of failure, a true revolution in our times of digital post production.In fact, even the viewer is implicitly required to take time to reflect in order to go beyond the image and enter these small time machines
BIO
I took up the study of photography about 5 years ago and have always been passionate about the visual arts and with a camera in my hand.
I believe that "shooting" is an expression of a deep need.
A few years ago in an online course on the psychology of photography I asked the lecturer what drives us to photograph and put ourselves in a third point of observation from the action.
He replied that photographers love life deeply and are desperate to stop time and fight against the implacable god Cronos.
They are not afraid of wrinkles or physical aging; it is desire that drives their eyes to the world.
Then I asked him.
"Why at some point does a sailor with hair that is always rippling with saltiness wish to leave the scene and choose to go up the mountain to photograph the sea furrowed by sails at sunset?"
"I think it's a dangerous profession being a photographer," he replied.
"Every time you shoot you are on the edge of the visible and the invisible, you are on the shadow line of your subconscious."
In truth, even just trying to move beyond that line has made me a more aware and freer man.
www.pataturc.com
Ig: gianluca_cop_ph
The exhibition takes place on the premises of the
Experimental Center of Photography in collaboration with Kromart gallery
Via Biagio Pallai 12 - Rome
info@csfadams.it 3385785977 - 065344428
Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturdays by appointment - free admission
Presents
Living Matter by Gianluca Coppeto
Vernissage Thursday, October 19, 2023 7:00 pm
On view from Oct. 20 to Nov. 3, 2023
Free Entrance
"Like leaves we feed on sunlight and believe that there is nothing capable of shading us.
Like leaves we resist the shocks and cling with our strength, we believe that no one will be able to annihilate them.
Like leaves we abandon ourselves to cruelty beyond our control."
The project relates the naked body and the flowing time through a natural grammar, through a biological punctuation, the texture of a leaf.The bulimia of images that surround us and produce the perception of false time eternally present.
Fontcuberta's essay, "the fury of images," points out how the image no longer functions as a portal to open the space of a memory but becomes usable only in the present and then is almost forgotten.
Our body, in "post photography" is forced into an eternal present, the relationship body image time is denied or rather submerged.
The project "Materia Viva" attempts to bring this theme back to the center, representing photos of naked bodies that time itself will alter by etching on the leaf tissues.
The "Materia Viva" project attempts to bring this theme back to the center by representing photos of naked bodies that time itself alters by etching onto the leaf fabrics.
A trans-photographic project that ties in with the experience of Italian informal art in which artists experiment with the ability to express themselves through matter by introducing novel materials ( woods, plastics, jute, metals ).
These materials become important because they are not means but co-protagonists themselves in the work. Burri, a fundamental artist of the Informal Materico, states that" materials do not matter." In reality, the painter means that it is not the materials per se that have meaning as much as the use of them.
The use of the leaf to tell the story of passing time is also a technique that itself requires time and anticipation, loss of control and management of failure, a true revolution in our times of digital post production.In fact, even the viewer is implicitly required to take time to reflect in order to go beyond the image and enter these small time machines
BIO
I took up the study of photography about 5 years ago and have always been passionate about the visual arts and with a camera in my hand.
I believe that "shooting" is an expression of a deep need.
A few years ago in an online course on the psychology of photography I asked the lecturer what drives us to photograph and put ourselves in a third point of observation from the action.
He replied that photographers love life deeply and are desperate to stop time and fight against the implacable god Cronos.
They are not afraid of wrinkles or physical aging; it is desire that drives their eyes to the world.
Then I asked him.
"Why at some point does a sailor with hair that is always rippling with saltiness wish to leave the scene and choose to go up the mountain to photograph the sea furrowed by sails at sunset?"
"I think it's a dangerous profession being a photographer," he replied.
"Every time you shoot you are on the edge of the visible and the invisible, you are on the shadow line of your subconscious."
In truth, even just trying to move beyond that line has made me a more aware and freer man.
www.pataturc.com
Ig: gianluca_cop_ph
The exhibition takes place on the premises of the
Experimental Center of Photography in collaboration with Kromart gallery
Via Biagio Pallai 12 - Rome
info@csfadams.it 3385785977 - 065344428
Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Saturdays by appointment - free admission
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