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They are all Italian and all in some way draw on the theme of memory. This is true even when they deal with current sporting events associated with the imminent inauguration of the Winter Olympics. There are ten of them and for the most part they are held in the most reserved cultural circuits, outside the mainstream. It’s even better when they’re out of town, bringing historic residences to life with gleams and flashes of good design
Alecio Ferrari: over and above objects
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Ferrari divides his time between personal projects and collaborations with brands, developing a language that draws on the visual arts generally.
Alecio Ferrari‘s photography celebrates objects and makes compositions out of them. His subjects are extremely wide-ranging – design pieces, cars, clothes – he has worked for Flos, Nike, Aspesi, Off-White, Golden Goose, Audi and Miu Miu, amongst others – as well as objects in everyday use, such as a knife resting on a chopping board or a basic life kit (an alarm clock, a comb, a cigarette lighter, a smartphone, a button etc.).
19 Chairs, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
Generally backlit, chiaroscuro or see-through effects and an assortment of manipulations contrive to lift his work out of the natural and ordinary, in an approach that seems to look to Man Ray and Surrealist photography.
photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
His images are heavily processed, he is not content simply with portraying and documenting, less interested in the naked entity as in its latent magical possibilities.
photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
L’Officiel, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
Fornasetti, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
Tami Izko Ceramics, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
Landscape, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
Landscape, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
The Instant of Change, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
The Instant of Change, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
The Instant of Change, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
The Instant of Change, photo courtesy Alecio Ferrari
