Resistere
by Nazzareno - Sergio Berton - Carlesso
portfolio special mention call 'EXTINCTION. THE WORLD WITHOUT US', 2019
On Monday, October 29, 2018, a serious weather event has devastated a territory.
Our world, the place where we have been sharing our "stories silently present" and of which we feel part for many years, has changed.
Nature this time showed its strength, and willing to take back possession of the places. We are left with a feeling of discouragement, almost of mourning, due to the loss of consolidated relationships.
The series is part of the project Reset by Carlesso and Berton, is inspired by Land Art. With their photography, Carlesso and Berton intervene minimally in the environment - they almost seem to write on the environment. In this work the intervention on the ground (earthworks) can become, as in this case a film, a testimony, a document of an intervention that has its precise visual meanings in the balance between the place and its reorganization, that is to say, a "fake". Here the referent has been assembled, but what has happened is mild, almost "etymologically" original.
The square, white on white, especially the circle, is a kind of writing that has its reference in the masters of Land Art, such as Smithson (his Spiral Jetty in Utah's Great Salt Lake) and Heizer (Boulder Isolated Circumflex). However, the interventions had an absolute sociological value, in terms of reclaiming or transforming the environments, or even just packing them as Christo does.
In this work, the image performs the same work of transforming the environment, because it is solidly built with a main central perspective, more dreamlike, ambiguous and lyric.
It would be wrong to consider photography as nothing more than a document; it is not a simple adjustment to nature's layout, not even make-up, but a make-over - it is an overall construction of a stage, set for the final shot. It is a frame which the authors were physically inside, a passage, perhaps emphasized by their footsteps, that is now part of the landscape. Getting in and out of the set. Think, walk, write on the ground. And in fact, this is an art of the earth!
Luca Erba
Our world, the place where we have been sharing our "stories silently present" and of which we feel part for many years, has changed.
Nature this time showed its strength, and willing to take back possession of the places. We are left with a feeling of discouragement, almost of mourning, due to the loss of consolidated relationships.
The series is part of the project Reset by Carlesso and Berton, is inspired by Land Art. With their photography, Carlesso and Berton intervene minimally in the environment - they almost seem to write on the environment. In this work the intervention on the ground (earthworks) can become, as in this case a film, a testimony, a document of an intervention that has its precise visual meanings in the balance between the place and its reorganization, that is to say, a "fake". Here the referent has been assembled, but what has happened is mild, almost "etymologically" original.
The square, white on white, especially the circle, is a kind of writing that has its reference in the masters of Land Art, such as Smithson (his Spiral Jetty in Utah's Great Salt Lake) and Heizer (Boulder Isolated Circumflex). However, the interventions had an absolute sociological value, in terms of reclaiming or transforming the environments, or even just packing them as Christo does.
In this work, the image performs the same work of transforming the environment, because it is solidly built with a main central perspective, more dreamlike, ambiguous and lyric.
It would be wrong to consider photography as nothing more than a document; it is not a simple adjustment to nature's layout, not even make-up, but a make-over - it is an overall construction of a stage, set for the final shot. It is a frame which the authors were physically inside, a passage, perhaps emphasized by their footsteps, that is now part of the landscape. Getting in and out of the set. Think, walk, write on the ground. And in fact, this is an art of the earth!
Luca Erba