ERBARIO MINIMO #2 Photograph

Enrico Camporese was born in Venice in 1945. He worked in the field of visual communication since 1975, as a photographer and graphic designer, collaborating with several Italian companies. Since 1979 he has participated in professional development workshops with photographers: Pete Turner, Deborah Turbeville, Aldo Ballo and Serge Libiszewski In 1975 he opened his own communication agency, PubbliCA, which, later became PubbliCA & Associati. For about twenty years the agency was involved in advertising communication, collaborating and creating campaigns for Veneto companies of national and international importance. Well known brands of Murano glasswork masters rely on PubbliCA for their catalogues and advertising pages. In 1996, after closing the agency, Enrico Camporese put aside advertising and photography for a long time and devoted himself again to painting and to the search for new and creative artistic expressions. From this period come his Decomposizioni and Piccoli Abissi series. In 1999, he painted the pictures called Minime Percezioni, in which he pays homage to the strong influence of painters such as Burnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko, while also finding his own voice, giving prominence to the background of his paintings, with yet another interpretation of colour which confers to his works a three-dimensional perception. From 2008 to 2015 with Cartografie del Sogno, Enrico Camporese begins exploring and researching new ideas, abandoning square shapes to approach circular shapes and their various declinations. In these works, almost all monochrome, he does not employ traditional mediums and uses corroded and visually corrosive textures, to remind the viewer of the impermanence of time. From 2016 he resumed photographing mainly in black and white, not as an advertising photographer, but to rediscover the taste of everyday life in his old passion, capturing gestures, in known and new places, pointing his lens at things and people, to record the passing of time in that suspended, everlasting moment.