MARCH SESSION 2013 Pisa Carlo

CARLO PISA

I consider myself a closed person, and do not always find the way to communicate my emotions, whether they invest the friendship, love or personal relationships in general terms.

But the urgency to share personal experiences belongs to each of us, and we cannot avoid it.

Helped by the camera I become the interpreter who puts himself in charge of the need for communication and feels himself at the center of his story.

To hold back the urge to communicate, I often find myself tacking on a big conference of characters that animate my unconscious, and the result is a kind of introspective sharing.

In the moment in which communication is inhibited to the outside, we just have to take refuge our inner selves and chat with the ghosts of our imagination.

The subjects of my work are everyday persons, places and objects whose original forms dematerialize into abstract forms and acquire a new “suspended” identity that change the way these subjects are normally perceived in the reality.

( The photographs are part of research project on an introspective language, on the thoughtfulness based on respect for the inner world for who is observing the images, inviting him not only to an emotional contact but an aesthetic contemplation, on subjectivity that is only achieved through a process of self-immersion, in a silent effort, in abstraction from the visible flow. )

What I propose is a research project on an introspective language, on the thoughtfulness based on respect for the inner world for who is observing the images, inviting him not only to an emotional contact but an aesthetic contemplation, on subjectivity that is only achieved through a process of self-immersion, in a silent effort, in abstraction from the visible flow.

Closing the eyes allows the image to speak for itself in silence.

Too see beyond the sharpness, to perceive the shapes outside, over those completed borders, resolute.

To catch a glimpse of other universes, to provoke the differences between them.

To deduce (to take away) the visible, and induce (to give) the mechanical/human eye to concentrate on the full emptiness, looking away from the immediate.

To perceive the harmonics of the image -  not the dominant, but the hidden movable or immovable.

My work is here, within these inexact borders.

Not out of focus, or outside the focus or even inside of it, that is the space that the exact focus hides. The blurring of the images shows the life of the middle, which investigates the choking of light that an aware and direct eye perceives, and to subvert the hierarchy of shapes and lines, capturing the poetry which is in everything.

Biographical notes / Curriculum Vitae

Carlo Pisa was born in Italy. Currently he lives and works between Bologna and Moscow.

In 1982, he started studying photography and began work as David Lees’ assistant on the staff of the photographers of the Time Life group. He also was part of international working teams and was involved in international workshops on photojournalism hosted by Alex Webb, Jeff Jacobson, Bob Sacha, and Jane Evelyn Atwood.

From 1984 to 2004 he worked as a professional photojournalist.

All his editorial works are a sensitive attempt to tell stories about people and places making use of a language which enabled him to express the frailty of the images of the life we have before our very eyes.

Publications:

Weekly and monthly magazines:

King, Moda, Panorama, Espresso, Epoca, l’Europeo, Lo Specchio, Sette, Il Venerdì, Tutto Musica, Gioia, Io Donna, D di Repubblica, Anna, Marie Clare, Village, Vanity Fair, Diario, Capital, and Meridiani (Italy), Das Magazine (Switzerland), Der Spiegel and Stern (Germany), GQ (Japan), Sunday Times Magazine (Great Britain).

Newspaper:

Il Corriere della Sera, la Repubblica, la Stampa, Il Giornale.

During that period he took advertising shots for Pepsi, Corriere della Sera, and Clementoni.

Advertising agencies:

TBWA, Leo Burnett, McCann Erickson, Euro RSGC and BBDO.

As of 2004, he has been engaged in individual researches meant to be the first step of an

exclusively artistic path.

Main Exhibitions:

- 2004 Collective exhibition at the Galleria Ghoete Arte Contemporanea, Bolzano (Italy).

- 2004 Solo exhibition at the Galleria Fabbrica Eos Arte Contemporanea, Milan (Italy).

- 2004 International Bienniae Exhibition of Photography, Contemporary Art section, Brescia.

- 2005 MiArt Fair with Fabbrica Eos Arte Contemporanea.

- 2006 Solo exhibition at Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation).

- 2011 solo exhibition at Museum of History of Photography, St. Petersburg (Russian Federation).

- 2011 54th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale, Pavilion Italy in the World.

- 2012 Light of Silence, Collective exhibition with Gennady Zubkov at Galerie Iragui, Moscow (Russian        Federation)

- 2012 MIA - Milan Image Art Fair with Galerie Iragui, Moscow.

Publications:

- Catalogue of the First International Biennale of Photography, Brescia (Italy).

- Mi Art Catalogue, 2005.

- 54th International Art Exhibition, the Venice Biennale Catalogue, Pavilion Italy in the World.

- MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) 2012 Catalogue .