honorable mention
ANDREA BARTOLUCCI italy
title
ARCHETYPAL SEA
The images I capture are optical-emotional perceptions that prescind from the intrinsic value of the subject (primary focus of the setting) and concentrate their essence on the search for the potential aestethic, in the light-shadow game and in the consequent graphic effects.
An apparently simple synthetic visual process.
A particular look and a way of seeing, that, through a minimum score, evokes a real and at the same time a dreamlike contemplative totality.
A formal simplicity and an essential compositional synthesis, which embrace harmony, movement, ambiguity and contrasts.
The choice of the black and white and the use of the backlight amplifies the abstract perception of the sea environment and gives the images essential primitive landscape value.
The chosen images propose a sea far from visual naivety of a superficial gaze, transfiguring the rhythmic gait of the backwash on the beach; the traces of the meeting of two worlds, the land and sea.
The sea environment thus becomes the inspirational archetype in which to look for an idea of cosmic harmony.
An act of love to the sea as it was and how it should return to be.
Like it was still in its infancy, like it was an archetype of the world, to love and respect.
I have hope in the universe that created us, in our existential values and in the lessons that we can learn from it, to live in a more serenely way the relationship with nature that surrounds us and with us ourselves.
Photographs taken on April 2019 in Versilia, country of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
The photographic background of Andrea Bartolucci is based on the concept that what matters is not what you see, but the extraordinary diversity with which you see it: in this way he explains the interpretive, non-documentary approach with which he carries out his research, focusing on the themes of landscape, industrial archeology and architecture.
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entry description
My personal photographic research wants to be an original and visionary reading of the landscape, focused on the essential elements of the scene, where the human figure rarely appears.The images I capture are optical-emotional perceptions that prescind from the intrinsic value of the subject (primary focus of the setting) and concentrate their essence on the search for the potential aestethic, in the light-shadow game and in the consequent graphic effects.
An apparently simple synthetic visual process.
A particular look and a way of seeing, that, through a minimum score, evokes a real and at the same time a dreamlike contemplative totality.
A formal simplicity and an essential compositional synthesis, which embrace harmony, movement, ambiguity and contrasts.
The choice of the black and white and the use of the backlight amplifies the abstract perception of the sea environment and gives the images essential primitive landscape value.
The chosen images propose a sea far from visual naivety of a superficial gaze, transfiguring the rhythmic gait of the backwash on the beach; the traces of the meeting of two worlds, the land and sea.
The sea environment thus becomes the inspirational archetype in which to look for an idea of cosmic harmony.
An act of love to the sea as it was and how it should return to be.
Like it was still in its infancy, like it was an archetype of the world, to love and respect.
I have hope in the universe that created us, in our existential values and in the lessons that we can learn from it, to live in a more serenely way the relationship with nature that surrounds us and with us ourselves.
Photographs taken on April 2019 in Versilia, country of Lucca, Tuscany, Italy.
about the photographer
He was born in Marina di Pietrasanta, in Versilia, where he lives and works with the analogic system, without ever resorting to Photoshop or to other image processing techniques. He has carried out several contemporary art projects, contaminating the photographic image with the traditional artistic expression. His pictures are present in the United States, France, Spain and Italy.The photographic background of Andrea Bartolucci is based on the concept that what matters is not what you see, but the extraordinary diversity with which you see it: in this way he explains the interpretive, non-documentary approach with which he carries out his research, focusing on the themes of landscape, industrial archeology and architecture.
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