TITLE: Another spirituality

Le Corbusier said: “Architecture is the skilful play of volumes under the light”.

Every built work, in its existence, tends in fact to have conscious or unconscious relationships with light which is therefore, even in its absence, an element of every architectural work.

Regarding the architecture of the sacred places of Christianity, regardless of the historical period, on a very personal level I have always had the feeling that the management of light (and therefore of shadows) has been wisely modulated in order to create highly impacting atmospheres. on the human soul.

Even the volumes, often “enormous”, the majesty and, frequently, the magnificence of the structures initially generate a feeling of “disorientation”: one can feel lost and small in large multidimensional spaces, sometimes even oppressed.

If in the believer the brightness that descends from above, the height of the aisles with the translucent walls of polychrome stained glass windows, the altar placed in the East suggest religious spirituality, the desire to rise, in an atheist like me all this generates at first a feeling almost of alarm, which pushes me to seek “refuge” in the shadows. Often in the cool stillness of the shadows another world opens up to my eyes in which I begin to calmly observe those details that I had not become visually aware of in a first overview. And it is in the observation of these forms, modeled by light and shadows, in which artistic references, curious expressions of religiosity or more generally compositions dictated by the light-matter interaction are often present, in which my gaze is often lost. Here I reach an inner peace nourished by a form of spirituality that could be defined as “atheist” in which in the end I find the human that expands in time and space into a

AUTHOR: lorenzo vitali (Italy)

Nato a Milano nel 1953, città dove vive e lavora. Ha pubblicato su molte riviste, in Italia e all’estero e vinto numerosi premi. Ha presentato proprie opere in mostre personali e collettive. Animato da uno spirito creativo e sperimentale, sempre attento alle nuove proposte artistiche, sviluppa il senso estetico delle sue opere combinando elementi classici e innovazione. Presta particolare attenzione alle forme e alla matericità. Manifesta uno spiccato interesse all’osservazione delle varie strutture abitative sia in ambito rurale sia nel contesto cittadino. Questo interesse si è concretizzato maggiormente in alcune Regioni italiane, ma anche all’estero in particolare nella città di New York.

Exhibition – Awards – Publications

2025

The Ascent Bronze Winner ai TIFA e Silver Winner ai NYPA

Stone Tales Gold Winner Fine Art agli EPA

New York Blues: Gold Winner ai TIFA

Vanishing Venice: Gold Winner at London Photography Awards (Fine Art), Bronze Winner in TIFA, Silver Winner a MUSE Surreal, Silver Winner al BIFA E’ stato pubblicato su L’Oeil de la Photographie, su The Pictorial List e su Fine Art Awards Dodho Magazine; in mostra in Aprile 2025 presso la Glasgow Gallery of Photography


2024
They Have Gone: Gold Winner ai Budapest International Photo Awards

Vanishing Venice: Silver Winner a ND Awards

They Have Gone: Silver Winner at MUSE Photography Award in Fine Art Architecture

They Have Gone: Gold Winner at Tokyo International Photo Awards in Fine Art Landscape

New York Blues published in Spectaculum Magazine

2023

They Have Gone: Silver Winner at New York Photography Awards

Exhibition-installation They Have Gone,
curated by Paola Riccardi, Aranciaia, MUPAC, Colorno. PR within Colornophotolife

Strangerland: it was Gold Winner at MUSE Photography Awards and Gold Winner in London Photography Awards

Signs of Spirituality (Another Spirituality): Gold Winner at MUSE Photography Awards, Silver Winner at New York Awards and it also received Honorable Mention at London Photography Awards, at European Photography Awards and at Monovisions B&W Awards

Dazzling Light: third prize at the IPA and at Fine Art Photography Awards

The Comacchio valleys: published in L’Oeil de la Photographie and it also received Honorable Mention at at PX3 Paris

The shape of the shadow published in The Pictorial List

They have gone: published in L’Oeil de la Photographie and in The Pictorial List

The Hues of Shape: published in Spectaculum Magazine.

The Heap of the Past: published in L’Oeil de la Photographie

Strangerland: published in Glamour Affair Visions.

2022

Strangerland published in L’Oeil de la Photographie on Avril 2022 and it was also published on July 2022 in The Pictorial List accompanied by an interview of the author. Awards: In November 2022 it was Gold Star at ND Awards and also Silver Winner at Budapest International Photo Awards. August 2022, Silver Winner at PX3 Prix de la Photographie, Paris. December 2022 Bronze Winner in Tokyo International Photo Awards and received also: Nomination at Fine Art Photography Awards 8 and a Honorable Mention at European Photography Awards. September 2022, Honorable Mention at International Photography Awards.

Memory of the female body: was published