TITLE: FRAGILE FORMS
With the series FRAGILE FORMS, I aim to take the observer on an enthralling journey to discover the most intimate and intrinsic aesthetic nuances of ice.
The subjects I focus on have defined, accomplished, autonomous forms. Shapes that I 'reveal' through photos that highlight and enhance the geometries hidden in nature, giving life to abstract images with a strong graphic impact.
But it is the framing cut that I consider the real aesthetic tool. With it, on the one hand I 'choose' the form by initiating the creative process, the so-called 'detachment from the multiplicity of possibilities'; on the other hand, I circumscribe the subject and extract and isolate it from the context with the precise intent of making the form abstract and at the same time shifting the observer's interest from the object: the context, the landscape as a whole, to the subject: the single form.
The resulting images generally produce a disorienting effect, leading the observer, in my intentions, to look deeply into the subject from a different point of view, and to interpret it as something beyond the natural element actually represented.
The 'fragile forms', once photographed and thus revealed to the observer, produce suggestive images capable of inducing the viewer to draw on his or her imagination in search of personal and intimate equivalences and associations.
I have taken these photos in recent winters, with a very close framing. They are not macro
AUTHOR: Edo Piantadosi (Italy)
I was born in Tarvisio, a small town on the Italian side of the Alps, on the border with Austria and Slovenia. I graduated in architecture in Venice and, during my studies, I attended the photography course of Italo Zannier, one of the best-known Italian photographers and historians of photography, and that is when I developed my interest in photography.
For many years I have explored the natural environment of the area where I live in search of the beauty of natural forms, their aesthetic and artistic qualities. This persistent work on the shapes of natural elements in recent years has resulted in a series of abstract naturalistic photographs, which I only recently decided to exhibit.
Solo exhibitions
• 2017 “Forme Fragili” La Fortezza Art Gallery – Gradisca di Isonzo Italy
• 2019 “Forme Fragili” Piccola Fenice Exhibition Centre – Trieste Italy
• 2022 “Intimate Metaphysics” NooN Consulting Art Gallery – Brussels
• 2023 “Forme Effimere” Museum Palazzo Veneziano – Malborghetto-Valbruna Italy
Awards
• 2023 Monovision Black and white photography awards – Honorable mention - Abstract category – FRAGILE FORMS series and REFLECTIONS series
• 2023 International photography awards – Honorable mention - Abstract category – COSMOS series; Official selection - Abstract category – REFLECTIONS Series
• 2023 Ten Moir Gallery – Beyond Earth – Second Place – Photo: GALAXY CLUSTER
• 2023 ND Awards – Honorable Mention – Abstract Category – FRAGILE FORMS series
• 2023 Chromatic Photography Awards – Honorable mention – Abstract category- Photo: VAN GOGH’s YELLOW; Photo: CHROMATIC TURBULENCES
• 2023 Monochrome Photography Awards – Abstract category – 3rd Prize – Photo: COSMIC WAVES; Honorable mention – Abstract category - Photo: SOLAR STORM
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