Presa di coscienza sulla natura (Epiphany about nature) is a series of aerial photographs of the land taken from a Piper plane.
These aerial landscapes from the 1990s are far less contrasting when compared with those from the 1980s: they are less bitten, less dazzling, less brazenly textured, less grooved, and space is more homogenous, even in its colours. And yet, the signs that Giacomelli explores remain the same, despite the land’s morphological shift to intensive agriculture: the land is first and foremost a body and Giacomelli seeks out its scars, wrinkles, and flesh. By this series, these signs have softened and mellowed. Giacomelli’s perspective has also changed: everything feels closer (almost like an ultrasound, “getting under the skin of reality”) than in his early landscapes, for which he positioned himself at the foot of a hill, amongst the smell of the dry straw, freshly cut grass, or sodden ground, nestled behind his camera, and looked up.
