3 - Limited Edition of 5 Photograph

Sottovetro addresses the theme of landscape indirectly. Are images where emerges the difficulty of distinguishing between the natural and the artificial. Binoculars, maps and microscopes to study something that is far from us, difficult to see with the naked eye, something that speaks to us of the distance that the contemporary man has placed between himself and nature. The space in which we move is now artificially extended, by an increasingly advanced technology and invasive, which encourages the development of intangible extensions and virtual dimensions. Between man and nature seems to be a lost love, a relationship entered into a problematic conflict which opens to scenarios full of uncertainties. In the diptychs, rectangular in shape, the relationship between the images becomes more airtight. The quiet correspondences are disturbing gaps that are filled with a sense of powerlessness suffered. The artist combines the monkeys of the Museum’s Specola geothermal plant in Larderello. Stuffed animals, preserved in a reliquary, close to a landscape that appears visually polluted by kilometers of galvanized pipes. A dichotomy between the natural and artificial that constantly in this work, triggers a semantic short circuit involving the concept of nature. The human presence in paintings acts as a measure of scale, here different takes on value: no longer allows the user to project himself into the landscape represented by hindering the vision. Watch, observe, and, disappointed, turn their backs to the audience. Draw with their silent choreography outline an essential phenomenology of looking. Nostalgia for the time when nature was be exploring is evoked by objects in the photographs, which overlapped to the memory of childhood, transform the figures in allegories of original purity.