4/11/2009
Renato D'Agostin
Photo4, Paris
In Tokyo Untitled, the artist isolates himself in the geometries of the Japanese city. He narrates his journey through his experience of the street, describing with the language of abstract images, charged of deep blacks and sharp edges. Dislocating subjects from their realities, D'Agostin depicts his perception of the space around him, the relationship between the city's architecture and its people, and their interferences.
For his first solo exhibition at Photo4 gallery, 25 gelatin silver prints from the 'Tokyo Untitled' serie will be presented.
In Tokyo Untitled D'Agostin isolates himself in the geometries of the Japanese city. He narrates his journey through his experience of the street, describing with the language of abstract images, charged of deep blacks and sharp edges. Dislocating subjects from their realities, D'Agostin depicts his perception of the space around him, the relationship between the city's architecture and its people, and their interferences. This is emphasized in Tokyo, according to D'Agostin, where he has no reference or connection with the external world, and his sense of disconnection brings him to a discovery of the unseen.
...These images are the thinnest possible slices of inconceivable urban density. Slices so thin that they must be measured in fractions of light, tiny microscopic moments of DNA in time taken from the huge archeology of a true metropolis...
(Ralph Gibson)
...'Tokyo Untitled' photographs bring me back to the destroyed Tokyo as it appeared right after the war ended. It may be totally impossible for young Renato to imagine that his "Tokyo Untitled" reminds me of such tragic images as Tokyo's air raid attack which happened 64 years ago.
(Eikoh Hosoe)
About Renato D'Agostin
Renato D'Agostin was born in Venice Italy in 1983. He began his career in photography in 2001. In 2002 D'Agostin attended Istituto Italiano di Fotografia in Milan, while working with Maison Sabbatini. In 2005, D'Agostin attends International Center of Photography in New York for courses in Fine Print. Soon after, he become an assistant to Ralph Gibson. In 2007, D'Agostin presented an exhibition Metropolis at the Leica Gallery in New York, followed by major international. He is represented by Charles Zalber's Photo 4, Paris, and MC2 Gallery, Milan.
Image: Image: Tokyo Untitled, 2009, gelatin silver print, 30 x 40 cm, edition of 25
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