Questa serie di istantanee scattate a Coney Island, l’originaria Dreamland, può essere letta su tre piani: il paesaggio puro, al confine tra cielo, mare, terra; il gruppo di figure che lo attraversa; i confini estremi della città, con le sue architetture fantastiche ormai abbandonate. Sulla più frequentata spiaggia russa di Brooklyn, vista qui come una sconfinata e struggente terra dorata in cui si riconoscono i segni di una civiltà al tramonto, è ritratta una famiglia della comunità ebraica Chabad-Lubavitch: un giovane padre con camicia e cappello d’altri tempi, i figli sparpagliati sul bagnasciuga o appesi al collo di una madre bambina che vaga sulla spiaggia accanto a un’altra figura dal viso dipinto come un imperscrutabile Joker.
This series of snapshots taken at Coney Island, the original Dreamland, can be interpreted on three planes: the pure landscape, on the boundary between sky, sea and earth; the group of figures passing through it; the outer edges of the city, with its now abandoned works of fantastic architecture. On the neighbouring Brighton Beach, frequented by the Russian community of Brooklyn and seen here as a boundless and poignant golden land in which the signs of a civilization on the wane can be recognized, is portrayed a family belonging to the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch movement: a young father in shirt and hat of bygone times, the kids scattered over the foreshore or hanging round the neck of a child mother who is wandering along the beach next to another figure with his face painted like an inscrutable Joker.
concept ZimmerFrei
series 3 series of 12 photos
dimensions various (70x100cm, 50x70cm, 30x45cm)
techinique digital print on wood
Brooklyn, NYC 2010
solo exhibition:
October 5th – November 15th 2010
ZimmerFrei. Tomorrow is the question
Monitor gallery, Rome
May 27th – August 28th 2011
Campo Largo
MAMbo Museum – Bologna
May 15th – September 28th 2012
“Where we come from”
L’Ozio, Amsterdam (NL)
February 13th – May 10th 2015
Continuo
Museum Beelden Aan Zee – Den Haag
award Premio Terna/AMACI 2010