NEW LANDSCAPES 2007 Winners' Exhibition
SECOND Place Award Winner / Giuliano Pastori
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SECOND Place Award Winner:
Giuliano Pastori / Italy
Giuliano Pastori was born in 1975 in Rome. where he attended an experimental-artistic school. In 2002 he graduated in Arts (historical-artistic course) at La Sapienza University in Rome. Between 2003 and 2005 he studied and worked in Milano, where he attended a Master in Movie Design at the Politecnico.
He explores these two “languages” together: the canvas becomes as black as negative films to expose, while photography turns to a conceptual and aesthetic approach, rather than technical. The theme of urban space perception is dealt with by using synthetic materials (plastics painted by enamels), underlining the artificial and “authentically human” elements of the metropolitan experience.
In 2005, while he was working on digitally dematerialized images, his painting experiments with a new support: plastic. Thanks to the “old” painting technique, the image is now anchored to an artificial support, which shows its concreteness and its fragility comparable to a negative film.
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GALLERY COMMENT::
Pastori's nightime impressions of the City are seen and captured at a glance, in passing. Movement is more than implied, it is inherent in his work, making the scene alive, dynamic, not static. He achieves a depth not only from the perspectives he uses but also from the treatment of the light - streaked, blurred and seen in all their vibrancy. Painted as photographs with long exposures, the view is not a captured moment but the effective expression of the passage of time.
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