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© 2021 by Paolo Aldi
© 2021 by Paolo Aldi
Sunny Flowers by Lia and Paolo Aldi
“Sunny Flowers” are an explosion of shapes and colors, an unusual way of seeing, narrating, and interpreting flowers photographically. They almost don't look like photographs, and that's because they aren't made with a camera; it's a photographic alchemy that uses the sun to capture the visual imprint of the flowers that were placed on photographic film and thus left their trace/image. The works are also the transposition of our own reflection on the photographic medium and its technical history. In these works, we reinterpret the history of photographic techniques using, as in the nineteenth century, the ultraviolet radiation emitted by the sun, the photographic film of the twentieth century, and the computer science of our contemporary era, but skipping the use of a camera to reach the deepest synthesis of the photographic process: light on the subject and something that preserves its image, its imprint. To these creative and reflective operations are added photographic printing interventions, often experimental and unusual, which help to create further visual suggestions for the free space of the observer's imagination and interpretation.
In these works there is no realism but imagination, vision, creativity, research, and experimentation. The entire creative process is carried out with great rigor on our part, even though we are aware that in these works the unexpected and surprise are always around the corner. And it is precisely these unforeseen events that we grasp, we make them our own with open-mindedness and the pleasure of surprise, because these unexpected happenings are a challenge but also and above all new lifeblood for new creations.
This artistic attitude allows the observer to find great quantities of colors, of light and dark, of nuances, of details within the overall work. We believe that their careful observation can foster pleasure and meditative moments with suggestions that lead elsewhere.
