In the world of photography, the color image has long held an inferior reputation for black and white, which experts considered historically more worthy. Nowadays, lively images are embraced in a wide range of fields, from visual arts and fashion to advertising and journalism.
In favor of the potential of the medium, artist Maurizio Cattelan And French Academy in Rome – Villa Medici Director Sam Stourdzé compiled Chromotherapia: The Feel-good color photography.
Color therapyAlthough considered a pseudoscience, his roots in color theory, which focuses on interactions between shades and how they influence our state of mind and emotions.
Cattelan and Stourdzé emphasize exuberant hyper -reality, humor and the absurd through works such as Juno Calypso‘S’ Chicken Dogs’, in which an anonymous figure with his face down lies next to a can of hot dogs, or the expressive pets of Walter Candoha. And in ‘toilet paper’, by Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, who co -founded magazine With the same name in 2010, a man is on a brown couch, with a matching suit, covered with spaghetti.
In total, twenty artists explore a series of approaches in the exhibition, from portraits of people and animals to food and creepy tableaux. “Many have freed themselves from the documentary function of the photographic medium to explore the common roots of the image and the imaginary, flirting with pop -art, surrealism, bling, kitsch and baroque,” says a statement.
Chromotherapy Open on 28 February and will take place until 9 June in Rome, and a corresponding catalog published by Damiani is planned for release in March in the UK and in the US your copy can be in the Colossal.
