Pietraia. Ediz. inglese Promozione Esclusiva

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Pietraia is the result of the encounter between sculptor Giulia Cenci and photographer Jacopo Benassitheir practices merging to create a new body of work, where the hybrid forms of her pieces and his visceral gaze generate a shared language of transformation. Introduced by curator Antonio Grulli, the artists met in Milan and then gathered in Pietraia, a rural village where Cenci set up her studio in the former stables of her familys farm. There, she works with metal to create casts of organic and mechanical bodiesbranches and pipes, bones and pistons, human and animal faceswhich she assembles and disassembles to shape new, visionary figures. Benassi photographed these creations indoors, in the studio, and outdoors, in the woods. Rejecting conventional modes of documentation, he worked in darkness, using flash and long exposures, fragmenting and multiplying the shapes, turning heavy metal into trails of pure light. Rearranging Cencis works into unexpected constellationsrelating and contrasting with each other and with the surrounding vegetationhis shots reveal their spectral nature and amplify their phantasmatic presence.