Giovanni Lunardi My artistic photographic work started at the end of the 70’s. Since the beginning my art has been focused on obtaining a three dimensional experience from otherwise two dimensional images. I worked many years in the dark room, cutting and curling innocent black and white prints that did not deserve to be treated this way. Finally, I learned the artistic language and I began working on a series called 3D. I finally had found my way and ever since I have been creating works of art with much satisfaction. 3D is a series of several pieces that use different techniques over many years. The cuts through the images, let us search a world beyond the limits of a photographic picture. The objects add more depth to the photos - shadows, movement, and color which give insight and life to the images. The work is then confined by thick shadow boxes which create a separate dimension for the art to live in a dimension with its own constraints, light, colors and atmosphere. cover:
Clouds GLT-0200, 1/1, 1979, 21” x 29” (cm 53 x 73)
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In the past few years, my work has expanded in a new direction. “Explosion” is a project that pushed me to search in each piece a strong and constant movement realized with exploded photographs overlaid one on top of the other. The explosion can be the result of many factors: speed, sound, wind, … The subject for the Explosion series are very diverse in nature: people, vehicles or objects. The observer is caught by the movement of the images bound by dark shadowboxes that confine the art in a way to keep it from escaping.
