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October 2020
Vandalism
Between 1974 and 1975, the American photographer John Divola – then in his mid twenties and without a studio of his own – travelled across Los Angeles in search of dilapidated properties in which to make photographs. Armed with a camera, spray paint, string and cardboard, the artist would produce one of his most significant photographic projects entitled Vandalism. In this visceral, black and white series of images Divola vandalised vacant homes with abstract constellations of graffiti-like marks, rit
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February 2022
Sub Sole
“Sub Sole" (in Latin, beneath the sun), an ensemble of photographs made between 2017 and 2020, in the region of the Mediterranean Sea, follows the mythological itinerary of the voyage of Ulysses: Ceuta, Naples, Athens, Palermo, Istanbul, Tunis and Lampedusa. Crossroads of cultures, cradle of foundation myths, the Mediterranean is, today more than ever, marked by migrations, exile and displacement. Over the course of seven voyages and numerous chance encounters, Mascaro goes in search of the young peo
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December 2021
London 82′
In the early 1980's, Sunil Gupta enrolled at the Royal College of Art in London, where he had access to colour negative processing facilities. He took to the streets of the capital in search of the centres gay London life around Earl’s Court, King’s Road, and the West End. "I hoped to repeat my experience of Christopher Street in New York, except now in London and in colour. It wasn’t to be. Even what a
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May 2019
L’ULTIMO DOMICILIO
“Ultimo Domicilio” was born in 2008 when, during a trip to Sarajevo and Mostar, Castore photographs interiors of houses abandoned during the war, suddenly left with all the personal belongings belonged to those who lived there.
Over the years the work develops into a solid structure, entirely personal, as is the mode of Castore. The houses of the war of Sarajevo and Mostar meet in this work the house of history (Finale Ligure), the house of
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