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26/6/2008

Domingo Milella

Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam

The past six years, Domingo Milella has concentrated on an ongoing project which takes as it’s central focus the postmodern landscape, from dwellings to urban periphery, which to date has taken him to remote corners of Europe as well as Mexico.

Milella’s perspective offers us a fresh interpretation of the changing face of our surroundings to day. Close by or far off borders, nations, megalopolis, are the subject of a geography at the edge of importance and function. Using an 8 x 10 camera, Milella captures these contradictory panoramas subtly noting the struggle for place between man and nature in contemporary society. His photographs have a certain impartiality allowing the viewer to interpret the image and draw their own conclusion.

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Foam presents the first solo exhibition by the young Italian photographer. Domingo Milella (b. 1982) in the Netherlands. Over the last six years Milella has worked on a major project documenting the urban landscape and focusing in particular on the boundary between city and nature. Each year Milella spent a month travelling to distant corners of Europe, USA and Mexico to photograph the landscape.

Milella’s perspective offers a fresh interpretation of the changing appearance of our contemporary environment. A recurring theme is the boundary between the natural landscape and the urban, and man’s role in this, while the struggle for space between man and nature is continually evident in subtle ways.

Milella records these panoramas using an 8 x 10 camera, choosing perspectives that leave little open space, which often creates a claustrophobic effect. Yet his photos are not without a sense of hope; nature’s ability to transform the environment in an urban setting is there for all to see.

Domingo Milella (b. 1981, Italy) lives and works in Bari, Italy and New York.

In 2005 he graduated at New York School of Visual Arts under Stephan Shore. He has shown work at Tracy Williams Ltd (New York), Brancolini Grimaldi Gallery (Rome) and has exhibited at Paris Photo and Art (212) in New York. He has taken part in group shows at Museo dell’Ara (Rome) and Castello Svevo and Pinacoteca Provenciali (Bari). Domingo Milella is represented by Brancolini Grimaldi Arte Contemporanea in Rome.

Domingo Millela is on show from 27 June to 31 August 2008 at Amsterdam’s Photography Museum, Foam. Open daily from 10.00-18.00, Thurs/Fri 10.00-21.00.

Tickets: € 7.00 / info: +31 (0)20 5516500 / http://www.foam.nl

Note to editors: For more information and visual material contact Merel Kappelhoff (communications), e-mail merel@foam.nl or phone +31 (0)20 5516500.

Foam is supported by BankGiro Loterij and VandenEnde Foundation.

FOAM Photography Museum
Keizersgracht 609 - Amsterdam

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