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Grapefruit Photograph - Limited Edition of 9

Pietro Canali

Canada

Photography, Color on Aluminium

Size: 25 W x 25 H x 1 D in

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ABOUT THE ARTWORK

Silver Halide Fuji Flex Crystal Archive paper printed with LightJet Oce 430, face mounted with 1/8” UV Tru-VU Clear Conservation Grade Acrylic and backed with 3mm Aluminium Dibond. Ready to hang with an Aluminium Black Profile Inset Frame. Edition of 15, signed. In my work as a travel photographer, I take pictures of mountain ranges reflecting in crystalline lakes and jagged cliffs that drop dramatically into crashing waves. The series Frutta & Fiori has marked my first departure from photographing the majesty and grandeur of nature. My goal instead was to focus on a more intimate side of nature by capturing the quiet symmetry of its fruit and flowers. To shoot these images, I placed the subject on a source of white light. I used a light box like the ones photographers once used to view slide film. This backlighting burned out the background. I wanted the purity and neutrality of the bright empty space behind the subjects to let their simplicity shine through. The plain background is also reminiscent of the backdrops in passport pictures, likening these images to portraits. As we would with a face, I wanted to admire the unique micro and macro elements that make these subjects what they are: the myriad shades of pink in the grapefruit’s flesh, the veins in an orchid petal, the tiny patterns that, when multiplied and repeated, become the whole. In their resting state, most fruits are sealed spheres, showing only their peel. I sliced each fruit and examined its cross section through the camera’s lens to get to its core, to expose and admire its essence. I attribute my preference for quasi-mathematical compositions in my photography to my training as a classical pianist. Rigor and geometry are the logical framework to my images in much the same way that the major and minor scales are the building blocks that all music is built from. Available also in the following sizes: 12"x 12" 42"x 42"

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Photography:

Color on Aluminium

Artist Produced Limited Edition of:

9

Size:

25 W x 25 H x 1 D in

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Pietro Canali was born in Umbria, Italy in 1975. He trained at the Conservatory of Terni as a classical pianist and later earned a Bachelor’s degree in Drama, Art and Music Studies from the University of Bologna in Italy. His first forays into photography began when he discovered a 1950s Rolleiflex that had belonged to his grandfather. Since 2005, his work as a professional travel photographer has graced the covers of the most prestigious publications, including National Geographic Traveler, The Sunday Times Travel, Condé Nast Traveler, Geo, Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, and Rick Steve’s. In 2007, his solo exhibit entitled “Milk, Flesh and Blood” was shown at Galleria Da*Co* in Terni, Italy. As a travel photographer, he has excelled at capturing nature’s breathtaking colours and vast expanses. In his work as an artist, he has made use of long exposures and controlled camera movements to explore the abstract rather than the figurative patterns found in those same landscapes. Symmetry, negative space and pure lines inform his most recent compositions, in which the order he has uncovered in nature’s randomness is identified and celebrated. Based between Montreal, Canada and his hometown in Umbria, Italy, he travels extensively to constantly create new imagery.

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