Sala della Gran Guardia hosts Giorgio Boato’s personal photographic exhibition.
The exhibition offers a selection of two photographic projects, whose common thread is “suspended time”. “Lunar is light” reads the title of the first project which includes two sections: the first dedicated to the moon, with which the photographer plays in a search for unlikely combinations, suggestive coincidences and real photographic alchemy.
For years the author has woven a dialogue with the moon that arises in symbolic photographic meditations, encounters of lights or objects that create new realities. In the “Lunar is the light” section, black and white photos and color photos alternate in an exhibition that travels mainly in the small format (10×15 cm), creating small windows that stop time and open the imagination, the thought, evocation, memory.
A puzzle of lights, shadows, chiaroscuro, symbols. Alongside these photographs, deliberately going against the current in size, empty of explicit human presences, which create different “series” connected to each other, Giorgio Boato also presents – “Sguardi sedimentati” – an original photographic project in which instead the person – and in particular the look – is the protagonist.
Even in this project the light is “lunar”, because it captures the “timeless”, through long, muffled exposures.
This project includes larger format photographs which reinterpret, in terms of technique and exposure, what was a necessity in the early days of photography, namely the use of poses with very long times.
The final outcome is a sort of sedimentation of progressive veils, transfiguring the sum of real instants superimposed into an “added” time, which does not exist. The subjects are largely men and women in which the gaze is the place of synthesis of this non-existent time. Giorgio Boato, photographer – photojournalist Venetian by birth, Paduan by adoption, he began “shooting” at 11 years old and has never stopped since then, making photography not only his passion, but his profession: from reportage to news, from portraits to architecture, from cultural heritage to textiles.
Information Free entry Hours: 9.30-12.30 and 16.00-19.00.
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