Artwork description:

A discovery destined to revolutionize the world, finds its definitive consecration in 1954 thanks to Giulio Natta with the discovery of “Moplen” (polyethylene).
A material that will enter everyday life and will revolutionize habits and customs of each of us thanks also to the economic boom that will characterize the 50s / 60s / 70s. Plastic, commonly called, will have an increasingly widespread diffusion and uses unthinkable at the time. What in the 1950s seemed a revolutionary discovery after 70 years has turned into an environmental problem.
Through my lens, I want to tell the current drama linked to plastics and the resulting pollution.
Plastic is made from a dark, black substance, oil; only during the production process is it transformed into a semi-finished product rich in color, a process to make a product more captivating and fashionable.
My work starts from that black, from that color that expresses all the drama of what I saw through my lens. Plastic envelops our environment, in some areas of the planet it is enough to immerse yourself in the sea to find yourself surrounded by this indestructible material, my story begins with a simple immersion, an immersion in a world full of plastic, what at first had to be an amusement turns into a dramatic experience.

The plastic envelops the face, submerges it, the astonished gaze, the desperate eyes that yes
confuse with the caps themselves, there is no longer a division between us and the plastic. We are submerged, pervaded. Once immersed, we find ourselves enveloped, entangled by submerged layers that prevent movement and are a denial of the freedom dictated by our seas. A desperate scream of pain, a scream of terror because the material that was supposed to simplify life has actually turned into a denial of life itself. In the end, a desperate, pleading hand tries to be a signal of alarm, a cry for help to seek a lifeline, but in the end the tragedy, the brutality of the face emerges which is abandoned lifeless among the residues of plastic material.
A raw, direct path that exacerbates the brutality and difficulty of living in a destroyed environment.
My goal is a denunciation and my work wants to stimulate a new rebirth, in the hope that that hand that begs for help can re-emerge in a better world.


2020
ND-Neutral Density Photography Awards 2020
1st place ND Awards 2020 in Fine Art - Conceptual
Discovery of The Year - Fine Art

Large edition of 7 plus 2 artist proofs on aluminum size 1000 x 1500mm x 13 mm (approx 25,4" x 38,2” x 0,4 )

Photography: Color, Print on Dibond (Aluminum) Edition 1 of 7

Each edition is signed and numbered by the artist


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Print on dibond aluminum

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