Mario Giacomelli (1925 – 2000)
Landscape, Italy, Senigallia, ca. 1980
From the series »Presa di coscienza sulla natura« (On being aware of nature)
Giacomelli summarised his abstract landscape photographs under the title »Presa di coscienza sulla natura« (Awareness of nature). While the early works were mostly taken from a hill, from the 1970s onwards he photographed from an aeroplane. 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 old people. Giacomelli certainly intervened in the shaping of the landscape and instructed the farmers to plough 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.
Gelatin silver print, print date: 1992
Image dimensions 39,2 x 29,5 cm (39,2 x 29,5 inch)
Mounting, Framing Archival mat board 50 x 60 cm, frame on request
Condition
Double weight, semi-matte baryta paper, excellent condition
Annotations
Signed and dated by the photographer on the reverse, photographer’s copyright stamp and series stamp on the reverse
Literature
Karl Steinorth (ed.), Mario Giacomelli. Fotografien 1952–1995, Stuttgart 1995, p. 122; Alistair Crawford, Mario Giacomelli, London 2001, p. 355;
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