Paradoxical feeling than pacing the aisles circular and narrow water Castle while inspiring a great breath of fresh air.
Exhibitions until the 29 more, Gallery of the Château d'Eau
The mountain landscapes photographed by Paola De Pietri breathe.
Landscapes of his 'To Face' series are a particular aesthetic.
« On these mountains, where human time is stopped and where only the rhythm of nature printed its trace, landscapes that seem natural are in fact the result of delivered battles and life lived every day for years by hundreds of thousands of soldiers "explains photographer.
Snapshot of Paola Pietri
There a cascade of stones that we imagine shaped by erosion, There's valleys in the middle of the pines thought drawn for centuries, are actually only a land hit by bombings or dug trenches made by soldiers of the first world war. Stigmata of the hell of war in a paradisiacal land... Mountain Mist also wraps us in our thoughts. Behind a tablecloth, We guess a cave or a cache that has not hosted a bear wintering entrance but men hunted down or storing ammunition there, blowing a few moments before the clatter of weapons.
Paola De Pietri shots are beautiful but rough. They lead us into a stroll but especially work memory. These snapshots of sites who will still be there after we, It was necessary to look for. And while sailing in our imagination, Considering also the journey that the artist had to make to meet face (To Face) these stone monuments. "To get closer to a grand narrative., She hired her body for several years, by thoroughly exploring the mountains. History, If it must be still seen among the problems of our Postmodernity, requires time and effort,"says Roberta Valtorta, critic and Director of photography Milan contemporary Museum.
Second stage of our journey to Toulouse, room located under the arches of the Pont Neuf to the discovery of Mario Giacomelli.
The room, Immaculate, lends itself perfectly to the decryption of the work of one who always considered himself as a manufacturer of image : "I do not the photographer., I do not know do.. Difficult to describe "inventions" of this now world-famous artist. Both abstract compositions, readable and telling a story.
Snapshot of Mario Giacomelli
Stacking several from shots of different series, adding perspectives artificially but cleverly posed in the framework, Giacomelli embarks us. Really take the time to read each of his works. Those that have me the most marked : This seascape where we see both the breadth of sea, captivating, and what seems to be, posed on a sand dune from the shore, a man and a child ; and then this other country composition coupling a farmhouse perched on a hill and an aerial view of fields dotted with grooves.
As of Pietri, Giacomelli also seems to want to rebuild that man has destroyed. The land on which it has shaped is the markets where he was raised and where he lived until his death in 2000.
To Face, Paola Pietri
« I am not the photographer, I do not know to do », Mario Giacomelli
