ABOUT
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| ABOUT |
| Gianluca Gamberini is a film man. His photographs reflect this occupation right from the choice of subjects. The theater wings of his spaces almost look like a surreal puzzle. In the image, the fictitious reality crosses the real space of the warehouse, creating a new reality, which sometimes leads to an abstract effect. These movable, scenographic elements of a fiction allow to simulate reality in a film. Gamberini plays with different reality levels - as in his early photographic work, he focuses on things. People and movement, i.e. the film's peculiar characteristics, are left out here. Today photography is one of the most complex medium in the visual arts world, and its esthetic strategies are innumerable. But Gamberini does not let himself be blinded by this visual overload: in his images, he poses the old question about the reality and the truth of photography. The image, being itself a fiction, contains classical and ancient elements that belong to the scenographic world of theater. A melancholy theme, which we can take as a metaphor of photography itself. Peter Weiermair Most of the time, as we look around it seems as if our surroundings had always been like that. It is a quite natural attitude, which leads us to be surprised when we become aware of changes. Unaware of our destiny, and therefore in need of certainty, we rather prefer places to remain immutable and in some ways as eternal representations outside of time. The work that Gianluca Gamberini has started in Rome and continued in China testifies to temporary realities by definition. He reminds us of the importance of revealing the landscape through photography, of building up stores of memory, of collecting stories about how we were and what was there. Nothing lasts forever. Our very existence needs confirmations that can only be found in the tracks already beaten, in the memories that recall only those places where we have lived. After all, as the poet Salvatore Quasimodo wrote “Everyone stands alone at the heart of the Earth.” from "Urbanautica" : VISIONS OF CINECITTÀ 12/11/2010 |