STATEMENT

I am not a creator. I know that the images already exist. All I do is to search for them, choose the ones I like and portray them to the viewer. Therefore, I am a producer of images.

Subject matter can be the human body, landscapes, nature or man made things. Although I have studied painting and sculpture, I find photography the easier way to express myself. I am drawn to bright colours and contrast but am equally at home with black and white and soft colours. My style goes from the documentary to the abstract. The latter, perhaps, is the result of the seeds of which were originally sown during my years of early training. Like unfinished sketches, some of my photos are incomplete until I fine-tune them using image-editing software.

Do my images evoke tranquility or energy? I let the viewer's feelings decide.

ONGOING PROJECTS

I just completed one project and I am working on three more:

• Trapped...!?: I have recently completed this project and I am searching for a venue that is willing to display it.

  This collection of b/w photographs is my personal witness to the loss of rural life in the wake of urban development. It captures the perplexities of development and stirs deep reflection of a society trapped by the flux of development at such accelerated pace where there is no way out.

 

• Roots: One other black and white project dedicated in photographing the roots and the landscape along the Niagara Escarpment of Southern Ontario.
• Precambrian Rocks: Although I have already photographed and exhibited these rocks, Precambrians and Precambrians II, I feel that my work is not finished on this subject. So I am approaching these rocks with new enthusiasm and a different eye. Of course in colour!
• Fall Colours: Here again...I've shown some fall photos in the Harsh gallery. Definitely not enough to be satisfied with, so I am continuing to explore and document these colours.

MY STUDIES

My studies include:

• Fine Arts at Il Liceo Artistico in Frosinone, Italy
• Special Art at Central Technical School in Toronto, Canada
• Graphic Design and Photography at Humber College in Toronto, Canada

EXHIBITIONS

People and the City: April to May, 2013 - Inn On Main Gallery, 126 Main St. South, Georgetown, Ontario, Canada.

Sample: July 3 to July 30, 2011 - Aroma Espresso Bar Gallery, 2300 Yonge St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Precambrians II: May 3 to May 30, 2011 - Richview Library Gallery, 1806 Islington Ave., Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

AutoWreck-AutoNew: October 12 to October 24, 2010 - Art Square Gallery, 334 Dundas St., West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Contrast and Similarity: June 21 to July 5, 2010 - Art Square Gallery, 334 Dundas St., West, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

© 2018 Gaetano Antonini