Saul Zanolari
dal 15/9/2006 al 6/10/2006
Segnalato da
15/9/2006
Saul Zanolari
Galerie Mamia Bretesche', Paris
New new portraits
New new portraits
Saul Zanolari explores, through photography, aesthetic and human beauty limits.
He makes his own the image of real and famous people - such as Simon Le Bon, Miss
Kittin, and others - as well as relatives and friends.
His digital photos, brilliantly edited, take us to a fantastic which can be familiar
to the viewer but also annoying for their hyperrealism and strenght of physical
detail which may reveal a kind of monstruosity.
Saul Zanolari's works approach the human being representing not only its physical
features but, through an editing process so deep and similar to the aesthetic
plastic surgery, he also put a great stress on apparently irrelevant details, on
colours and so on, driving the whole photographical portrait concept to collapse
with the aesthetic expectations of the subject.
His design style can be considered half the way to pop art and fashion photography.
Saul makes his own a new world, made by a unique vision of the human being and his
common way of representation.
All his works, even the latest ones, have been inspired by real pictures whose
subject is a family member, a friend or a certain kind of celebrity.
Saul Zanolari was born in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in 1977. He degreed in
Philosophical studies then he turned his interest to photography, considered in its
wide acception.
His works have been exhibited in New York, London, Milan, Basel and Paris galleries.
Since 1997 he became a professional artist, photographer and designer.
Actually his main interest can be essentially identified with << surgical >>
photo-editing, an handicraft tecnique behind the industrial process of photography.
Exploring this new path let him found a new artistic dimension for figurative art.
Saul Zanolari set now new rules in an ancient art such as the portrait one, using
modern technological tools.
Opening : Saturday 16 september, 7pm
Galerie Mamia Bretesche'
48, rue Chapon - Paris
Tue-Sat 2:30pm - 6:30pm