“The first and last frontier is the one that separates us from each other. It is the moment when thought overflows the perimeter of the individual and begins to embrace the world: my breathing, my way of seeing.
The Latin word cum-finis (the origin of the word “confines”) is an oxymoron for shared limits and evokes two concepts that are both similar and contradictory. As I thought about the theme of this work focusing on Italy’s northern borders, I had the idea of depicting the mountains, a crown of wind-torn ice that separates the regions that stretch out below.
In the idea of a frontier, there is a horizontal dimension that can be crossed at a glance, and I took this as my starting point: finding how to climb high enough to get a view similar to that of a geographical map, showing the extent of a territory which, taken as a whole, goes beyond any sense of belonging. Once up there, under the vault of the sky, I felt I wanted to explore the vertical dimension of the frontier. I wanted to go down into the silence of the glaciers, touch the harsh concretions of the rocks, hear the roar of the mountain streams deep in the ravines and the echo of my footsteps in steep-sided gorges rich with the aroma of damp moss. From this earthly standpoint I could look up at the distant sky, once again far away up there, hidden among the branches and leaves, high above the ancient pines.
Although this work follows the morphological lines of a natural frontier, and although its backdrop is the great theatre of history, its intention is not to achieve a historico - geographical reconstruction. These are glimpses of a territory which, though located on the borders of Italy, is also, in my way of seeing things, a land situated somewhere between my imagination and my memory. It is a unique private landscape that belongs to all of us.
The destiny of a single person or the history of several, it’s the landscape that, for each of us, corresponds to a single point in the world”.
L’exposition « Le Monde comme il bouge » invite le public à explorer les univers d’artistes d’origines diverses. La Brasserie propose de réunir des œuvres sensibles aux bouleversements du monde. Les dérèglements d’origine économique, politique, culturelle, sociale ou climatique engagent ...
These photographs are a small selection from the first ten years of Erich Hartmann´s photographic career which began in l946 when he arrived in New York City after Army service on the battlefields of France and Belgium during World War II.
He never tired of walking the streets of New York, always with camera in hand a...
2012, année de Marilyn ! Pour célébrer cette femme d'exception, Olivier lorquin a sélectionné avec Bert Stern, l'auteur de "La dernière séance", un ensemble de photos qu'il est heureux de présenter à Banyuls-sur-mer.
L' AD-Galerie présente la collection de portraits du photographe Hiroshi Watanabe à partir du samedi 26 mai 2012.
Cinq portfolios consacrés au portrait constituent le thème de l'exposition d'Hiroshi Watanabe. Trois portfolios représentent un témoignage direct de...
Do you remember the first time ? features works by contemporary photographers Olivo Barbieri, Jim Goldberg, Nathan Harger, Adam Jeppesen and Paolo Ventura, presented for the first time in London exclusively at Atlas Gallery. Many of these exemplary contemporary artists have been exhibited internationally, and are included in museum and distinguished private collections worldwide, bu...
Neuf photographes, actuellement en troisième année d’étude de photographie dans une école d’arts appliqués – MJM Graphic Design – ont développé un projet personnel sur un an, en vue de cette exposition. Leur travail et la démarche d’accompagnement ont concouru vers un seul but :...
Organisée par le Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, sous le commissariat de Véronique Baton, historienne d’art, et d’Agnès Barruol, conservatrice en chef du patrimoine, l’exposition « Se souvenir de la mer » se déroulera du 23 juin au 31 octobre 2012 au domaine départ...
La Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Cachan se déroule du 29 mai au 30 juin 2012. De nombreux artistes à découvrir autour du thème de l'altérité.
Le triptyque "Sortie Fauve" de Francesca Di Bonito a été sélectionné.
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