Nature: Macro (AMATEUR) - HONORABLE MENTION
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Photo © Andrea RICCI
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Perception of order is the underlying process which make us conceive and understand what we call decoration. A mechanism which is at the root of the entire artistic experience. If Art is about describing, painting, photographing the invisible, that - a sense of order - is the invisible artists have to make visible.
Much of what surrounds us offers a constant solution of continuity, and in Gombrich sense, it’s far from being beautiful, it does not respect a good decorative scheme.
Unless we choose to look otherwise and start noticing.
Paying attention to detail, moving closer to things allows sometimes to detect unsuspected patterns and intriguing which invite the eye to travel around a meaningful shape or to observe, at a glance, some of nature's most perfect examples of visual symmetries and rhythms.
This photographic project tries to locate the almost invisible line which separated fuzziness from artful decoration, nature from culture, boredom or confusion from delectation (or distaste).
“The most fundamental aspect of the aesthetic experience”, says Gombrich, “is that pleasure is located somewhere between boredom and confusion”.
His current photographic projects focus on countries in crisis, symbolic urban locations, weak expressions of societal transition, the expression of popular religiosity and the notion of aesthetic order. Influenced by 6x6 Medium Format photography, his pictures are mostly square (1:1) or panoramic (1:2,75 - 1:3).
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Perception of order is the underlying process which make us conceive and understand what we call decoration. A mechanism which is at the root of the entire artistic experience. If Art is about describing, painting, photographing the invisible, that - a sense of order - is the invisible artists have to make visible.
Much of what surrounds us offers a constant solution of continuity, and in Gombrich sense, it’s far from being beautiful, it does not respect a good decorative scheme.
Unless we choose to look otherwise and start noticing.
Paying attention to detail, moving closer to things allows sometimes to detect unsuspected patterns and intriguing which invite the eye to travel around a meaningful shape or to observe, at a glance, some of nature's most perfect examples of visual symmetries and rhythms.
This photographic project tries to locate the almost invisible line which separated fuzziness from artful decoration, nature from culture, boredom or confusion from delectation (or distaste).
“The most fundamental aspect of the aesthetic experience”, says Gombrich, “is that pleasure is located somewhere between boredom and confusion”.
About author:
Andrea RICCI is Italian, but lives and works in Brussels. He is a journalist and former contributor to La Repubblica; he has a PhD in Communication and Information Sciences and a personal history which anchors him to Florence and Rome, to Art History, Renaissance and Baroque. A participant observer when working on photojournalism projects, Andrea has a keen interest in documentary and conceptual photography .His current photographic projects focus on countries in crisis, symbolic urban locations, weak expressions of societal transition, the expression of popular religiosity and the notion of aesthetic order. Influenced by 6x6 Medium Format photography, his pictures are mostly square (1:1) or panoramic (1:2,75 - 1:3).
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