TITLE: Solid Dreams

The starting idea of this ongoing project is to have a reflection from an artist’s point of view of the interactions between space, form and geometry.

Architectural elements, sometimes whole buildings, are decontextualized from their urban surroundings and for what is possible reduced to their abstract and essential form. This foundation is superimposed by a shading. The shading enhances form and geometry. On the other hand, the shading also serves the introduction of some ambiguity, sometimes a continuous passage from two dimensionality to three dimensionality, sometimes a continuous passage from day to night. These ambiguities, inspired by works of M.C. Escher and less directly from works of R. Magritte, endow the image with a dream-like character which is meant to provoke a more personal reading from the viewer.

The lighting of the windows, openings that connect two otherwise unrelated domains, is functional for the aforementioned ambiguities but also suggests and allude to other spaces beyond. Spaces that can only be imagined and thus remain mysterious.

AUTHOR: Andrea Mori (Italy)

I was born in Rome, Italy, in 1961. After a Ph.D. in Mathematics (1989) I moved to Torino, Italy, where I have a teaching position at the local university.
I have learned photography at a young age and practiced it ever since, but only relatively recently I got involved in photography as an art form giving preference mostly to architectural and still life photography and developing a personal style.
My inspiration can be traced back to the metaphysical painting, to the geometric intricacies of Escher, to the essential architecture of Hopper, to the ambiguities of Magritte.
I opened a website in 2020 and started showing my work.
Got a few honorable mentions at various international awards in 2021/22 and a TIFA Gold Medal in 2022.
In 2023 I exhibited some of my works twice at the Liquida Photofestival in Torino. In March 2024 some of pictures were at the YouNique Fair in Lugano.