CHIAROSCURO
Walking through the Espai Alfaro for the first time is like entering in another dimension. Invisible from the street, it’s a world of futurist sculptures, designed by A. Alfaro, that transport you to some realities, surrounded by a very strong and harmonious architecture made by E. Giménez. This place of creation and artistic tradition where art, design and architecture are converging was the first step of our approach to this photographic shooting.
It became naturally obvious for us to transmit the mystery of this space in the pictures and play with the supernatural feeling that reflect the sculptures of A. Alfaro. In the manner of a surrealistic painter, like the Belgian artist René Magritte (1898-1967), we decide to use elements that, in their opposition, can cause a shock that is able to open your mind and conduct it on the way of the thoughts and interrogations. As so, inspired by the sculpture “Johann W. Goethe”, we are showing at the same time and in the same place the day and the night that in ordinary life are succeeding.
The surrealism is born from the infidelity of the pictorial mirror: the look of the photographer is a fake mirror. His eye is betraying what he’s contemplating. It’s a mirror that is adding to things the mystery that they are dissimulating, and that, without the intervention of the art and the mind, couldn’t be evealed by themselves. In this photo shooting we are not trying to reflect a copy of the reality but to enhance and to modify the image in a way that’s showing not the real but it’s unfathomable mystery. And thereby provide a new sense, open an unexpected path that is, thanks to its abstraction, offering a new orientation.
TEAM: Maria Vigliocco, Pablo Danna, Marine Burtonboy
Sources:
PAQUET, Marcel, Magritte(1898-1967):La pensée visible, Italy: Taschen, 2007.
https://www.espaialfaro.co
PAQUET, Marcel, Magritte(1898-1967):La pensée visible, Italy: Taschen, 2007.
https://www.espaialfaro.co
