Pietro Bologna Mio Malgrado, 2018

Production and printing of large formats. Solo exhibition, Galleria Lorenzo Vatalaro, Milan, Italy.

The project

Returning to look at the landscape through the eye of the camera: this is the origin of the project by Pietro Bologna, in which Sicily, its atmospheres and its classical quality are accomplice and ally.

These are long exposures, which require quiet recollection, as the author writes, allowing the subject to grow within the image and demanding a certain concision of expression.

The encounter with the atelier

The encounter with A14, a place of experimentation where shared research always generates new cross-fertilisations, and the time spent there, sparked visions and reflections that helped the project develop.

Gumprint printing and the enlargement of details bring the real image back to the indefinite, fixing the original intention of not wanting to take possession of the subject portrayed.

Mio Malgrado is the result:
6 large-format subjects
24 original prints
Printing technique: Gumprint
Paper: Hahnemühle white 285g
Format: 162 x 166 cm (each image 4 modules of 81 x 83 cm)
Edition: unique pieces

Galleria Lorenzo Vatalaro, Milan

Exhibited for the first time at the Galleria Lorenzo Vatalaro. The intimate, contemplative space suggested a particular exhibition dynamic, allowing large-format, multi-part subjects to be shown as fragments, conceptually amplifying the idea of the dissolution of the image that recurs in the artist's poetic path.

Every day the combinations change, the fragments are moved and replaced. Visitors entering experience each single frammento as autonomous and realise only towards the exit – where the edition is placed, a book-object similar to a children's dice game – that what they have seen are only portions of larger images.

The artist's book

Mio malgrado is completed by an artist's book, a set of cubes with which to try to recompose the fragmented images personally, also discovering new, personal visions; a return to the spontaneity of children's play as a vehicle for discovery and creative opportunity. A tribute in which each single piece of the composition can also dialogue with six unpublished poems by Angelo Lumelli.

Title: Mio Malgrado

Technique: photographic reproductions from Gumprint originals.
Inkjet printing with lamination.
Paper: Permajet smooth pearl 280 g
Format: 23 x 16.5 cm
Edition: 5 copies signed and numbered in Arabic numerals by the author of the text and the artist
Printer: Fine M-art/Milan
Publisher: A14
Special features: box made by the artist

Author's notes

What the camera lens does not do, thought will have to do.
It is up to thought to seek in the figure what, once again, has escaped.
Pietro Bologna seems to discover that the intimacy of a figure is no longer a further figure, but a movement of birth, shadows that, inside the eggshell, were waiting for the faint light of an inspired candle.

Mio Malgrado

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