Bergamo Libertà 22 Print - Limited Edition of 10

The vertigo of the gaze and the kaleidoscope, photocompositions taken from the series "Kaleidoscope #1: imaginary cities". Direct print on aluminum dibond, ready to hang. In this case we have the city of Bergamo, its old chamber of commerce and the rationalist architecture that transformed it into the current city with its strong, perhaps excessive, dedication to work as a moral value. The idea for this photographic series came from a small kaleidoscopic lens purchased in a shop in Venice, an object which in its simplicity offers unexpected ways of looking at the world. Further sources of inspiration were reading the book "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino and some essays on living in the modern city. Seen through that small lens and filtered by the imagery of the readings mentioned, the city breaks down and reassembles itself. Modern architecture blends with the buildings of the past, just as urban agglomerations are transformed into universes that are closed in on themselves or projected towards utopian or dystopian times, each with its own story to imagine but which draws inspiration from facts or real characters, often forgotten, hidden in the details of these compositions. As in the panoramic shots of today's metropolis, there is no space for the representation of man, who vanishes in these particular visions of suspended cities, subject to the laws of abstract perspectives, which try to anchor themselves to a territory they often fail to see.