honorable mention
Christian Basetti italy
title
Va, pensiero
Oh remembrance so beloved, but so painful.
Golden harp inspiring the great Poets,
Why are you so silent and abandoning yourself to tears?
Rekindle memories in our hearts,
Tell us again about our glorious past![..]
The famous verses of italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, contained in "Va, Pensiero",from Nabucco opera, which inspired my project based on the beauty of old Italian decadent places, well recognizable heritage of our past.
Artistic is the approach with which I photograph this places. I don't limit myself to immortalizing desolate scenes with an exclusively documentary spirit, but I always introduce a careful fine art vision, as a painting, inspired by Caravaggio.
Why just limit yourself to conceptual decay, as many others do,and not represented it as an aestetic work too?
The great Italian artist used marginalized subjects of society, such as old beggars and prostitutes, and then glorified them in transpositions of saints and madonnas. And even his still lifes showed fruits in the advanced ripening phase, with atmospheres of autumn decay.
My subjects, decrepit like those of Caravaggio, are inspired by him coming to assume almost the quality of a painting, transforming something decadent and inanimate into something more glorious and nostalgic about ancient beauty.
Since 2015, he has been passionate about ancient decadent places, giving voice to these structures full of melancholy charm as if they were silent narcissistic creatures waiting for someone to express their greatness.
Creator of Forgotten Art-chitectures project, decayed places are not shot just with an usual limited documentary aspect, as many others do, but they are like fine art canvas aimed at aesthetics.
Inspired by Caravaggio's style in the representation of environments, with a similitude between Caravaggio subjects as prostitutes and beggars with decadent places, both of them turned in something nobler.
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entry description
[..]Oh my homeland, so beautiful but lost,Oh remembrance so beloved, but so painful.
Golden harp inspiring the great Poets,
Why are you so silent and abandoning yourself to tears?
Rekindle memories in our hearts,
Tell us again about our glorious past![..]
The famous verses of italian composer Giuseppe Verdi, contained in "Va, Pensiero",from Nabucco opera, which inspired my project based on the beauty of old Italian decadent places, well recognizable heritage of our past.
Artistic is the approach with which I photograph this places. I don't limit myself to immortalizing desolate scenes with an exclusively documentary spirit, but I always introduce a careful fine art vision, as a painting, inspired by Caravaggio.
Why just limit yourself to conceptual decay, as many others do,and not represented it as an aestetic work too?
The great Italian artist used marginalized subjects of society, such as old beggars and prostitutes, and then glorified them in transpositions of saints and madonnas. And even his still lifes showed fruits in the advanced ripening phase, with atmospheres of autumn decay.
My subjects, decrepit like those of Caravaggio, are inspired by him coming to assume almost the quality of a painting, transforming something decadent and inanimate into something more glorious and nostalgic about ancient beauty.
about the photographer
Christian Basetti live in Milan, Italy .Since 2015, he has been passionate about ancient decadent places, giving voice to these structures full of melancholy charm as if they were silent narcissistic creatures waiting for someone to express their greatness.
Creator of Forgotten Art-chitectures project, decayed places are not shot just with an usual limited documentary aspect, as many others do, but they are like fine art canvas aimed at aesthetics.
Inspired by Caravaggio's style in the representation of environments, with a similitude between Caravaggio subjects as prostitutes and beggars with decadent places, both of them turned in something nobler.
back to gallery