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Fabio Sandri

Chiostri di San Domenico
30 April - 7 June 2009
with texts by Sergio Giusti

  

PRECIPITATI (SEZIONI, ACCUMULI, AVVOLGIMENTI)

Introductive notes to the works: “Stanze”, 1:1 scale photogram of one (or more) rooms in an apartment. I think that the idea of precipitation is what reveals the meaning and special use of photography in my work. My work consists in the recording of an impression of a room on light-sensitive paper. The paper is laid on the back side with the light-sensitive side in direct contact with the floor and the other side facing the empty space above. This gives a “double negative” which captures the above image (the light go through the paper) and the image below the paper (by refraction from the floor materials), seizing, directly and simultaneously, both space and things; not only things near the surface, but also those deeper, in the two opposite directions, gravity and its opposite. The resulting photogram becomes a kind of section, showing things from a point of view which merge above and below, introducing itself in between the two. The image is this continuous relief, the precipitated materials. The forms are created by the people who live there. “Costruzione”: The film which shows the darkening of a window as a wall is built over it is projected on light sensitive paper which covers the wall of a room. Here the building of the wall and the construction of the print, created by the projection of the film, are associated and put together. The continuous succession of layers of brick and small movements of the frame form a continuously developing grid.  The result is a “drawing” which is formed in front of our eyes, a photogram in constant evolution, never settled, created by the present and past images of the film as well as the progressive impression of the wall through the soft light in the room. Throughout time, a new image is developing, which is the result of these added parts, of this accumulation. And as the days go by, very slowly, the forms become less distinguishable and the whole picture becomes a monochrome. The wall being built imitates the work of photosensitivity, and vice versa : they build up materially.

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1964, he lives in Brogliano (VI). From 1982 to 1986 he studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, in Emilio Vedova’s studio. In 1987 he was awarded a study grant by the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation in Venice, where in 1988 he held his first personal exhibition called Luoghi. In 1991 he exhibited his first works done using folding and direct printing techniques on photo-sensitive paper. His research is marked by a plastic conception of the photographic medium, conceived and explored as it is essentially: a print on a photosensitive support, in direct contact with the material nature of places, or a continuous print which becomes temporal. In recent years he has produced cycles of photograms on a 1:1 scale of rooms in homes (Stanze, 2004-2008). In other works, the prints of films projected on photosensitive paper in an open process of continuous impression are added to those of the environmental situation (Incarnato, 2005; Costruzione, 2007; Panoramica, 2008). Among his main personal exhibitions: Exitarte (Vittorio Veneto, 2008), Artericambi (Verona, 2007), Neon (Bologna, 2006), Camera degli Sposi (San Quirico, 2005), Casabianca Museum (Malo, 2003). Among his main recent collective exhibitions: Foto, tempo, creatività (Osart Gallery, Milan, 2008), Schads Photogramme (Kurpfalzischmuseum, Heidelberg, 2007), Untitled (Artercambi, Verona, 2007) overseen by Anna Longo, Senza fine (Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, 2006) overseen by Eva Fabbris, 1:1 (Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2006) overseen by Sebastiano Barassi, Finte di corpo (Azioninclementi, Malo, 1004) overseen by Eva Fabbris.

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INFORMATION

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Chiostri di San Domenico
via Dante Alighieri 11 - Reggio Emilia
tel. 0522 451152 - 456249
 
Hours
Opening 30 April at 18.00
From 1 to 3 May from 10.00 to 23.00
From 5 May to 7 June: from Tuesdays to Fridays from 18.00 to 23.00; Saturdays, Sundays and festivals from 10.00 to 23.00