By way of the body, the study of the feminine nude, and a tangle of references and quotations from Giacomo Balla to the works of Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy, Maurizio Galimberti’s photographs show their own imaginations.
Creativity and design are the principal characterisics of this technique, particularly mosaic, an instrument through which he has found a means of expressing dynamism.
The artist approaches the theme of the nude like a private journal, private albums, a geometric narrative and the shapes of the female body.
It is an existential story, an exercise aimed at breaking up the space in which the figure of a woman moves, a woman who appears to be dismantled, divided up like a broken object and then put back together in different forms by the spontaneity and superimposing of the artist’s vision.
This staging of a perceptible and sensual eroticism is an obsessional but unwholesome exploration of a re-appropriated world that goes beyond the model’s physique.
Arianna simultaneously represents a female microcosm and macrocosm, the obstinacy of Galimberti’s creative potential, characterised in space-time by unceasing dynamism and unique futurist tensions.
In addition to the works of the title, this work is composed of several quotations and references: from Wally Neuzil’s obsession with Egon Schiele to Giacomo Balla’s dynamism, from Eadweard Muybridge’s chronophotography to “Nude descending a staircase” Marcel Duchamp; by compositions and poems marking the obvious parallels with Man Ray and Moholy-Nagy.
Benedetta Donato
Benedetta Donato is an independent Italian exhibition curator who live and works in Rome.
17e festival européen de la photo de nu d’Arles
From 5th to 14th May 2017
Arles
France
