{"id":3191,"date":"2019-07-21T14:50:01","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/?page_id=3191"},"modified":"2021-02-28T17:56:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T17:56:09","slug":"sotto-la-pelle-del-reale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.archiviomariogiacomelli.it\/en\/sotto-la-pelle-del-reale\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the Skin of Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mario Giacomelli. Under the skin of reality <\/span><\/i>is a book about Giacomelli\u2019s methodological approach to photography. <\/span><\/p>\n

Katiuscia Biondi Giacomelli\u2019s critical text embeds Giacomelli\u2019s oeuvre in a biographical context to expose the fusion of life and art across his practice.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of his methodological approach to photography, Giacomelli took on the role of performer, acting within the realm of the Informal: Giacomelli uncoils a chain of meanings, each one linked to the next. He creates a kind of hall of mirrors: it is here that he envisions a new language, structured as an eternal cycle of return. Giacomelli\u2019s artistic gestuality gives form to space. His photographs come \u2018alive,\u2019 and speak with the voice of their creator. <\/span><\/p>\n

Giacomelli spent his whole life immersing his imagination in the reality he was photographing. He used photography as a kind of language for his unconscious. It wasn\u2019t until the end of his artistic and existential journey that he became a performer, and physically entered the frame of the photograph. He loads all of his self-expression into a single, monumental image – his oeuvre – which is caught in flux, and made up of around fifty thousand photographs taken across the course of his life. <\/span><\/p>\n

This book focuses on Giacomelli\u2019s latter years. In this final period of work, Giacomellli essentialised his approach, and brought his practice full circle. <\/i>Giacomelli\u2019s photographic series from the 1980s and 1990s are published here for the first time. <\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015, the English edition Mario Giacomelli. Under the Skin of Reality <\/i>was published by Schilt Publishing in Amsterdam, alongside the German edition Mario Giacomelli. Hinter dem Schleier der Realit\u00e4t<\/i>, published by Till Schaap Edition in Bern.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019m interested in a reality which breathes, which is in continuous motion. When I photograph something, it assumes its meaning once it\u2019s been separated from its primary intention and recontextualised in a determined space of perception, where everything becomes part of this new flux.\u2019
\n<\/span>(Mario Giacomelli, notes, 1990s). <\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Language becomes the environment in which the image breathes. The image is a product of an unknown interior force exploding into space. I alter reality in order to give sense to the subject. I deconstruct and reconstruct in order to make meaning.\u2019
\n<\/span>(Mario Giacomelli, notes, 1990s). <\/span><\/p>\n