Mirror Threshold
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Aperture , 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Aperture, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84 (cm 190x120)
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84 (cm 190x120)
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84
Installation view, private collection, Milan
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Horizon, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84
Installation view, private collection, Milan
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Chance 10, 2009
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Chance 10, 2009
cm 190x120
Installation view, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milan, 2009
PORTRAITS, 1996-2013
30 ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 126x55 each
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2013
PORTRAITS, 1996-2013
30 ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 126x55 each
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2013
RCA SELF-PORTRAIT, 2012
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
RCA SELF-PORTRAIT, 2012
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2013
MIRROR THRESHOLD 16, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
MIRROR THRESHOLDS
from left to right: Aperture, 2009; Mirror Threshold 16, 2011; Mirror Threshold - Chance 10, 2009
cm 190x120 each
Installation view, PAC, Milan, 2011
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Six Cuts, 2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120 (cm 125x84)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Six Cuts, 2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Bruce Silvestein, Paris Photo, 2014
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLDS - In Time, 2010
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
variable measures
Installation view, private collection, Italy
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Shaped 01, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 160x150 (cm 133x125)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Shaped 01, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 133x125
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, Paris Photo, 2011
MIRROR THRESHOLD 15 - Negative and Positive, 2011
Ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x73 (190x120) each
MIRROR THRESHOLD 15 - Negative, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x73
Installation view, private collection, Milan.
MIRROR THRESHOLD 15 - Positive, 2011
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x73
Installation view, private collection, Milan.
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Curtain, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 100x66 (190x120)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Black Curtain, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 100x66
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Flicker, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
190x120 (cm 100x66)
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Flicker, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 100x66
Installation view
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Flicker, 2006-2014
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 190x120
Installation view, Bruce Silverstein, New York, 2015
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Double light, 2011-2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 80x57
MIRROR THRESHOLD - Double light, 2011-2013
Ink-jet print on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 80x57
Installation view, Photo & Contemporary, Turin, 2014
MIRROR THRESHOLDS
from left to right: RCA Self Portrait, 2012; Six Cuts, 2013, Aperture, 2009; Double Light, 2011-2013
ink-jet prints on mirrored plexiglas, aluminum
cm 125x84 each
Installation view, Spazio Borgogno, Milan, 2016
ABOUT THIS SERIES
These prints on reflective silver mirrors are produced by means of a direct UV inkjet print process devoid of white ink, thus the reflected image appears where a traditional photograph would normally be white. This absence of information, or in a way its excess, simultaneously represents what lies inside and outside the work: precisely where the surface is imageless, it generates its own light and reflection, embracing the phenomenological world as much as the inner one of the image.
Mirror Thresholds expand the idea of the capture from where they were taken to the place were they are seen; their exposures span from the actual time of the shot to the present when viewed, embodying the fundamental hic et nunc of the beholder: his sight, experience and time. I’m shifting attention away from the referent, reduced to a distant background noise of retinal vision, towards the actual Subject, He/She who questions the actuality of the image, activating it at every new glance.
The image presents and represents, developing an active relationship where the Subject sees himself and the other-than-self, the world and the image of the world at the same time: the observer who glimpses himself in the act of looking is directly part of the visible and of its interpretation. The work pertains to the individual and his awareness while the artist is the medium between Reality and Subject.
Mirror Thresholds are about the Who and not only the what: the present time-place of viewing reveals the meaning of the gaze, offering a new horizon of interpretation for thinking on Photography.
Le Soglie a Specchio sono realizzate a getto d’inchiostro direttamente su superfici ad alto potere riflettente, non utilizzando il tradizionale processo di stampa su carta chimica foto-sensibile. Poiché questo innovativo sistema di stampa non utilizza il colore bianco, là dove una fotografia sarebbe normalmente bianca essendo questo il colore del supporto, appare invece l’immagine riflessa del soggetto. Questo bianco/specchio prodotto dall’assenza d’informazione, o per certi versi dal suo eccesso, rappresenta simultaneamente ciò che sta dentro e fuori dall’opera: proprio là dove la superficie è priva d’immagine, essa genera luce e riflesso abbracciando simultaneamente il mondo fenomenologico e quello interno all’immagine.
Le Soglie a Specchio estendono l’idea di fotografica dal luogo specifico della ripresa a quello della fruizione, la sua esposizione si prolunga così dal momento passato dello scatto a quello presente della visione, nell’esperienza dello hic et nunc dell’osservatore: il suo sguardo, tempo ed esperienza.
Desidero spostare l’attenzione dal referente, ormai ridotto a un lontano rumore di fondo della visione retinica, al Soggetto che si confronta con la realtà dell’opera, attivandola ad ogni nuovo sguardo. L’immagine è presentazione e rappresentazione, in un rapporto attivo e partecipe con l’osservatore: una relazione nella quale il Soggetto vede sé e l’altro da sé, -il mondo e l’immagine del mondo- contemporaneamente. Così lo spazio fisico che ospita il processo dello sguardo è a sua volta l’elemento attivo che pone il Soggetto al cospetto di sé stesso: colui che si scorge nell’atto di guardare è parte del visibile ed assieme della sua interpretazione.
Questi lavori riguardano il Chi e non cosa: il tempo presente della visione e il luogo in cui accade rivelano il senso dello sguardo, offrendo un nuovo orizzonte interpretativo al pensiero sulla Fotografia.