The Italian photographer Marco Delogu currently has two exhibitions in Moscow, one on horses at the Glaz Gallery, and the other on vegetal landscapes in the Multimedia Art Museum. In his work, Delogu uses a 4×5 format “pavillon” camera, the modern equivalent to the vintage folding cameras. A technical piece of equipment that is in line with the current trend in contemporary photography, including having a fetish for film, its “defects” and other parasitic marks that tend to appear on the final print. These marks give more individuality to the final pictures and allow Delogu to stand out from the mass of anonymous photographers that put the focus on technical perfection. The effect comes from the immaculate white where animal silhouettes emerge. The images are dominated by white areas, bringing to the photographs an almost metaphysical dimension. The vegetal landscapes are parts of the Tuscan sun, covered by humus, grass, leaves, twigs. The camera operated by the photographer, dropped to the ground, makes the familiar places disappear while heading towards abstraction.
Emmanuel Grynszpan
Galerie Glaz
Moscow,
Malaïa Ordynka, 23
Multimedia Art Museum de Moscou
16 Ostozhenka str., Moscow 119034
