Enter Paradise MaRCO GUALTIERI
Enter Paradise MaRCO GUALTIERI
Enter Paradise MaRCO GUALTIERI
November 17 DECEMBER 5 2016 Corridoio Fiorentino DIVA Via Magliabechi, 1 | Firenze
ENTER PARADISE is a collection of American landscapes molded together into a fictional memory of locations that Marco has never visited before. “I took the images without a specific project in mind or a secondary meaning but just wanted to show the reality as it appears. I shoot and then I print in artificial memory of places where I have never been.” Even though this collection is personal, it is not considered a project because it doesn’t have any autobiographical intentions. Enter Paradise is an invitation to reminisce about places we’ve never been to. ENTER PARADISE è un insieme di fotografie scattate in America tra il 2012 e il 2014. 17 foto che raccolgono i frammenti del paesaggio americano, luoghi silenziosi, aperti, che evocano set cinematografici nei quali si è appena conclusa, o sta per partire, un’azione. Qui tutto tace, in attesa di qualcosa che sta per accadere, in un equilibrio instabile di geometrie e forme architettoniche, “colte con occhio da documentarista, senza un progetto specifico e un secondo fine, ma come puro scopo di riportare la realtà come viene colta. Scatto e poi li stampo in una memoria fittizia di posti non sono mai stato prima”. Nessun intento autobiografico, solo ricordi “artificiali”, creati con immagini di luoghi, paradisi. “Nel fotografare questi luoghi cercavo i passaggi che hanno portato a tali ricordi artificiali e poi formare la mia esperienza del paesaggio americano”. Enter Paradise è proprio questo, un invito a ricordare quei posti in cui siamo mai stati.
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Size 82 cm x 55 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/20 Location Mississipi Date 2013
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Size 122 cm x 81 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/10 Location Asbury Park, NJ Date 2012
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Interstate 55, LA Date 2013
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Rome, GA Date 2013
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Atlantic City, NJ Date 2012
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Tullia, TX Date 2013
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Size 82 cm x 55 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/20 Location Atlanta, GA Date 2012
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Size 82 cm x 55 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/20 Location Asbury Park, NJ Date 2012
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Size 82 cm x 55 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/20 Location Arizona Date 2013
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Atlantic City, NJ Date 2012
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Editio 1/40 Location Old Indio, CA Date 2014
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Santa Paula, CA Date 2014
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Size 82 cm x 55 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Editio 1/20 Location Desert Hot Spring, CA Date 2014
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Size 82 cm x 55 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/20 Location Desert Hot Spring, CA Date 2014
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Italy, TX Date 2013
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Monument Valley, UT Date 2013
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Size 54 cm x 36 cm Media Type Ink-Jet Print on Archival Matte Paper Edition 1/40 Location Utah Date 2013
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MaRCO GUALTIERI Marco Gualtieri is a landscape photographer based in Florence, Italy. He was born in Rome in 1978. He has a Master’s degree in Visual Arts from DAMS (Drama, Art, and Music Studies) University of Bologna, Italy; a Bachelor’s degree in Cinematography from the National Film School of Rome; a certificate in Documentary and Photojournalism from the International Center of Photography of New York. His work has been exhibited in the United States, where he has lived and worked for the past decade. Marco is currently based in Florence and works as a photography instructor at Florence University of the Arts. Marco Gualtieri, è un fotografo specializzato nella fotografia del paesaggio e dell’Architettura. Nato nel 1978 a Roma, ha studiato al DAMS di Bologna, si è laureato al Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia di Roma, e certificato all’International Center of Photography di New York, negli Stati Uniti, dove ha vissuto e lavorato per 10 anni, di cui gli ultimi 3 a Los Angeles. Attualmente, insieme a tanti progetti che sta seguendo nell’ambito dell’Architettura d’Interni, è docente di Fotografia presso FUA.
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Enter Paradise MaRCO GUALTIERI
November 17 DECEMBER 5 2016 Corridoio Fiorentino DIVA Via Magliabechi, 1 | Firenze Gabriell a Ganugi FUA President David Andre Weiss DIVA Chair Giulio Vinci DIVA Academic Coordinator Marco Gualtieri Photographer and instructor at DIVA Olivia McClellan Special Project: Experiential Learning in Fine Arts Gallery Assistant Livia Sturlese Tosi FUA Press Office Alberto Simoncioni Graphic Designer
Printed on November 2016 by FUA Florence University of the Arts
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