Enrico Camporese - Burano Facades

BURANO FACADES
45x30 cm glicée photograph printed with pigment ink on Hahnemüle Photo Silk Baryta paper, stamped on the left and hand-signed on the back of the photograph.
The use of Hahnemüle paper combined with pigment ink guarantees museum-quality workmanship, allowing it to remain unchanged over time.

Burano is part of a photographic study in which the urban landscape and vernacular architecture are treated as visual devices, straddling the line between documentation and abstraction.
The façades of the houses – traditionally perceived as postcard images of Burano – are reduced here to clear fields of colour: pink, yellow, blue and green construct a geometric rigour that dialogues with the language of contemporary design. Within this chromatic grid, the Renaissance-style female portraits placed on the doors introduce a further level of interpretation: the pictorial past of Europe enters the image as a ghostly presence, suspended between interior and exterior.

Enrico Camporese was born in Venice-Italy. From 1965 ti 1970 he began working as a trade union-news photojournalist , documenting the political and social events of the period. Thanks to his photographs, he occasionally collaborated with the weekly italian magazines Il Mondo and L’Espresso.
In August of 1970, he decided to leave for Ireland. In Belfast he documented the outcomes of the daily conflict between Catholics and Protestants.
In September of the same year, in Venice, he cofounded INTERMEDIA, an advertising agency, together with five other colleagues. In 1975 he opened his own communication agency, PubbliCA, which, later became PubbliCA & Associati.
For about twenty years the agency was involved in advertising communication, collaborating and creating campaigns for Veneto companies of national and international importance. Well known brands of Murano glasswork masters rely on PubbliCA for their catalogues and advertising page.
Since 2020 Enrico Camporese has dedicated himself exclusively to art photography

PHOTOGRAPHY SOLO EXIBITIONS
2020 LUOGHI SPARSI - Tra realtà e metafisica - 24 fotografie in bianco e nero e a colori, presso
DOFMA S.r.l. Via E.Marelli, 152 - Sesto San Giovanni - Milano - Italy. Curated by Ornella Roccuzzo
2020 LUOGHI SPARSI - Tra realtà e metafisica - 24 black and white and color photographs as part of the
15TH Editions of Photofestival 2020, Palazzo Castiglioni, Milan Italy. Curated by Ornella Roccuzzo
2019 UNTITLED - 36 black and white photographs - second series, as part of the 14th Edition of
PHOTOFESTIVAL 2019, Biblioteca Gallaratese, Milan Italy. Curated by Ornella Roccuzzo
2018 UNTITLED - 36 black and white photographs - first series, Bookshop FrancoAngeli, Milan Italy. Curated by Ornella Roccuzzo
2018 FOTOGRAFIE DI UN PERSONAGGIO INVENTATO - Dal caos alla narrazione - 33 black and white
photographs, as part of the 13th Edition of PHOTOFESTIVAL 2018, Biblioteca Villa Litta, Affori, Milan Italy
Curated by Ornella Roccuzzo

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