gerdastudio and the sense of space

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Domus Ventura Centrale ©gerdastudio

gerdastudio was set up in 2017 by partners Giorgio De Vecchi and Giulia Di Lenarda, photographers with different training backgrounds, from architecture to research into deserted islands in the Mediterranean

01_Art_GERDASTUDIO_005 — Uzbekistan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale ©gerdastudio

gerdastudio’s photography evidences a very tightknit relationship with space or, better still, with spaces, plural. There are apartments, educational hubs, exhibition pavilions, residential and industrial complexes, offices, hotels and showrooms. There are interiors and exteriors. Each has its own colour, aesthetic and emotional texture: catalogue-coated, with dominant white, or suggestive of Luigi Ghirri’s metaphysically black shadowed square.

02_Art_GERDASTUDIO_006 — Domus, Belgium Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale ©gerdastudio

Obvious exceptions aside, such as a report on a launch event at Harvard for Virgil Abloh’s book Insert Complicated Title Here, compositional sensitivity remains a constant, favouring empty pictures, suspended in the manner of installations, and reminiscent of certain members of the Dusseldorf School, a hypothetically minimalist Candida Hofer, less fixated on central symmetry.