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Mario Giacomelli (1925 – 2000)
Landscape, Italy, 1992
From the series »Presa di coscienza sulla natura«
Item number 034-00378
For decades, Giacomelli photographed increasingly abstracted landscape panoramas, which he later summarized under the title »Presa di coscienza sulla natura«, which can be roughly translated as »forming an awareness of nature«. While his early works were mostly taken from a hill, from the 1970s onwards he photographed from an airplane. His photographs dissolve the fields into graphic networks of lines and show the landscape as one marked by man and time, reminiscent of his many portraits of aged people. Giacomelli intervened in the shaping of the landscape and instructed the farmers to plow shapes into the ground according to his ideas. On the one hand an expression of personal feeling, the pictures also embody a clear, bold and conceptually pioneering attitude.
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Vintage Gelatin silver print
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Image dimensions 30,40 x 39 cm (30,40 x 39 inch)
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Mounting, Framing Archival mat board 50 x 60 cm, frame on request
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Condition
Double-weight, semi-matt baryta paper, in excellent condition -
Annotations
Photographer's stamp, his serial stamp »Presa di coscienza sulla natura [...]« and handwritten dated in black ink on the reverse. -
Literature
Alistair Crawford, Mario Giacomelli, London 2001, p. 318 -
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