{"id":2781,"date":"2019-04-28T11:34:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-28T11:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/?page_id=2781"},"modified":"2021-04-05T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T09:20:40","slug":"primi-paesaggi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/en\/primi-paesaggi\/","title":{"rendered":"Early landscapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/1954-60-primi-paesaggi\/\">Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The landscapes are fantastic and raw, with much of their intensity derived from the way they recall ancient woodcuts or Oriental prints. Snow, crops and hills are reduced to graphic markings, to pure intimation. It is as if the totality of each image emerges from the mind and the nib of the etching tool, rather than from the camera\u2019s lens and its light sensitive plate.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>(extract from a review in \u201cCitta di Milano\u201d of a solo exhibition of Giacomelli\u2019s work at the Milan Public Library in 1960)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giacomelli<\/strong>: \u2018Usually the landscape is already constructed and I choose which composition best suits what I\u2019m looking for. If I don\u2019t find the landscape I\u2019m after, I create it myself, I intervene, and I\u2019ve been doing this since 1955 [&#8230;]. I feel man\u2019s presence more in nature than in his conventional context. Nature isn\u2019t just composition and matter, it\u2019s the substance of man\u2019s life; it bears his suffering, his wrinkles, the calluses on the hands of the farmer who entrusts his hopes to the land. Another important thing is observing nature over time. Across the arc of the seasons, nature stands and sings victorious in front of man, always able to return to life and to inspire hope in others, and this is something I don\u2019t find in man, something of which he is incapable.\u2019<br \/>\n[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quintavalle<\/strong>: \u2018Beyond your composition choice, do you often intervene directly by altering the landscape?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giacomelli<\/strong>: \u2018Whenever I really want to bring home a landscape, I don\u2019t manage to find the one I want. I\u2019ve been following the same landscapes for years now, but I\u2019ve restrained from photographing some because they didn\u2019t offer the right composition or colours and so didn\u2019t correspond to what I\u2019m looking for, they lacked something in one way or another. And so I used the blacks and whites to get the composition that wasn\u2019t like it was in nature but how I wanted it [&#8230;], to give it new life, to let it have the upper hand on nature for once. There are images that I don\u2019t photograph because they\u2019re poorly composed, but these landscapes always win me over, and the moment when I see myself in the images, when I find my own graphic expression, I try to make the landscape my own.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quintavalle<\/strong>: \u2018What difference do you see between your photographs from the 50s, through to the 60s and 70s?\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Giacomelli<\/strong>: \u2018Rather than a difference that you can grasp from the images, it\u2019s a difference that has grown within me, that has pushed me, in an unplanned way, to seek out new signs, new compositions.\u2019<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-Paesaggi-prima-maniera-3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-Paesaggi-prima-maniera-3-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"719\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-Paesaggi-prima-maniera-3-300x211.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-Paesaggi-prima-maniera-3-768x539.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-Paesaggi-prima-maniera-3-1024x719.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Mario-Giacomelli-Paesaggi-prima-maniera-3.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Images \u2018The landscapes are fantastic and raw, with much of their intensity derived from the way they recall ancient woodcuts or Oriental prints. 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