"(S)Compositions - Metaphor of Life"
The “(S)Compositions” project conceived by D'Orta starts from architectural photography to tell in the form of metaphor, through installations/sculptures obtained from photographs, two stories: our ability to transform the environment and the society in which we live and the continuous evolution of the personality of each of us, through decompositions and recompositions of our emotions, ideas and life experiences.
The journey begins by photographing landscapes of contemporary architecture, that is, the skin of our cities. By exploiting particular shooting perspectives and compressing the depth of field through the zoom, D'Orta transforms glimpses of contemporary architecture into pure abstract geometries, in which the recognizability of the subject, depth and three-dimensionality of the original place often disappear completely.
But then, using the same geometric parts that make up the photography, plexiglass installations, glass sculptures or painted steel sculptures are created, the latter with the collaboration of the hyperrealist painter Andrea Ciresola, in which it is recovered, but reinterpreted and profoundly changed. the combination of the parts, the three-dimensionality of the original architectural place.
Biography
Carlo D'Orta (Florence, 1955), a lifelong photographer, has dedicated himself to the study of contemporary art since 2002 and perfected himself in advanced painting courses at the Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) and a master's degree in photography at the IED in Milan. His vision evolves towards abstraction. Since 2009 he has exhibited his works in personal exhibitions at institutions, museums, galleries and art fairs in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, England and Singapore. Many of his works are in prestigious public and private collections. Interviews and articles on his art have been published by the main Italian newspapers and numerous art magazines.
Andrea Ciresola (Verona, 1961) is a restorer of cultural heritage, an activity that led him to deal with (among other works) the conservation of the Arena of Verona. In the field of visual arts he has achieved prestigious international painting awards, with his graphic interventions he is a book illustrator, writes poetic texts and for the theatre. For fiction he has published, among other works, Una fragola per Capello, Vangog and Racconti per l'ora d'aria (Edizioni Giuseppe Laterza, 2019). As a popularizer of contemporary art he has held over four hundred themed public evenings.