Sachgebiete

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Ca. 60 S. mit zahlr. Fotos. Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.

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Umschl. etwas berieben. - Texte engl., ital. - ... He portraits the nudity. The pubes; the breast; the long hair - bare parts, void of any adornments other than those of an organic nature or animated by the anatomic contortion and absolutely symbolic of eros and thanatos. Not because this is pornography (by no means), but expressing an almost tragic tension each of those nudities cause the shock, freezing "the mechanism of association". Like the nudities, also the full naked body, from which Guatti derives the detail, should express pathos. But which full naked body is this? I fear it is neither reality nor ideality but denegation of the beauty of the female body involved in simulation; in the end it is a figure, a previous one, probably drawn from the history of art. As in the case of Eve, shameful and pudic, anguished and howling, in the Cacciata by Masaccio, at the Brancacci del Carmine chapel in Florence. Guatti then disappears. Or better he denies himself as artist. The non-artist must perform more functional duties, and he impersonally performs them. But sometimes he doesn't - if it is true that, for example, he passes the negative to the photo-lab printer. He uses the negative as a slide, he prints the negative on cybachrome paper obtaining a negative print, very negative. - Albano Guatti (born 1950) is an Italian contemporary artist and photographer based in New York. In the 1970s he was a performance artist, and since then he has published books of erotic photographs of women. He was born in Udine, Italy and studied aesthetics under Ermanno Migliorini at Università degli Studi di Firenze. He has lived in New York since 1978. Guatti started his art work in the early 1970s, with experimental visual poetry. From 1974 to 1981 he was mainly a performance artist, exhibiting in European and American museums and galleries. Since 1981 his work has consisted principally of photography, sculpture and drawing.