Photo Exhibit by Renato D’Agostin
Iter includes images from around the world, focusing on the city, the one we all want to escape from, but which sticks to us like an – occasionally painful – shell.
In Renato D’Agostin’s photographs location immediately looses its identity. He opens a window on a reality where shapes, appearances, evocations, and surges of emotion emerge from the image.
Verna Curtis, Curator of photography at the Library of Congress, will participate and comment on Renato D’Agostin’s techniques and works.
We are all familiar with this world, we all know it exists, but fear almost always stops us from making contact with it, overwhelmed and crushed as we are by everyday life.
The city as a place in which we live, work, and love, looses its physical dimension and becomes a place of pure emotion. Its buildings and streets become paths of reason and emotion similar and/or different wherever we happen to be.
The images in the photograph are only signs, the warmth of emotions left on the ground, or, in the words of James Hillman, the soul of places.
In fact, a careful reader will immediately realise that the cities, the places shot by the photographer, belong to completely different yet identical realities, because they are places that shimmer with feeling.
In his photographs, Renato portrays a place in which the mind searches for what we normally call the scraps of the soul and immediately transfers them into a dreamlike dimension.
The photographer participates and is intimately involved in the meta-historical development of the story: a series of images and tales that are not real, but images of what we have called a parallel reality. This reality escapes our daily considerations to become the ecstatic revelation that some philosophers would call the vision of our third eye.
This exploration perfectly integrates into the theme of the journey.
Renato D’Agostin – online: click here
SEPTEMBER 29TH: DOORS OPEN AT 6PM
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Please click on “Make a Reservation” by September 29, 2014 at 2 PM
Reservations are available until we reach
capacity or by the above date/time (whichever comes
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ON VIEW – BY APPOINTMENT ONLY: SEPT 30 – DEC 18
September 30 through December 18, 2014
(Monday to Friday from 10am-12noon/2pm-4pm)
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY: email reservations requests at iicwashington@esteri.it
When you email your reservation request, please provide the following:
date
time
name of each guest
PLEASE NOTE: the date and time you request may not be available. You will receive a confirmation email. Not open on weekends or holidays.
PHOTO ID REQUIRED
LOCATION
Embassy of Italy – Auditorium
3000 Whitehaven Street NW
Washington, DC 20008
MORE INFO
Renato D’Agostin
Renato D’Agostin (Venice, 1983) begins his career in photography in 2001 and shortly after he joins the production studio Maison Sabbatini in Milan. New York City follows and D’Agostin becomes assistant to the american master of photography Ralph Gibson.
In 2007 he presents his first exhibition and book at Leica Gallery in New York. In the following years D’Agostin is invited to exhibit in Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Istanbul, Madrid, Washington DC, Tangier, Rome, Venice and other cities of the old and the new world.
His books A day with Lucia, Tokyo Untitled, The Beautiful Cliche’-Venezia and Etna are published and his photographs begin to be acquired by private and public collections as Library of Congress and Phillips Collections.
D’Agostin is at the moment involved in the production of his next photographic volumes about Los Angeles, Shanghai, Istanbul, Acrobats, Kapadokya and Washington DC, scheduled to be published within the end of 2015.
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