Mario Giacomelli (1925–2000) - Aprile

Vintage black-and-white photographic print, created by the artist near the time of the shot.
Author's autograph and date on the reverse.
Certification of the Mario Giacomelli Archive.
In this photograph Giacomelli surpasses the unitary representation of the landscape to build a stratified and discontinuous image, where multiple visual levels overlap in a tension that is almost hallucinatory. Cultivated fields, trees and shadows intertwine in a fragmented composition, which dissolves traditional depth and transforms the territory into a mental field.
The presence of superimpositions, reflections, and shadows accentuates the experimental character of the work, yielding an unstable landscape, traversed by phantasmatic presences and by a non-linear perception of time. The black and white, pushed to the limits of contrast, reinforces the visionary dimension of the image, far from any descriptive intent.
This work bears witness to one of the most free and radical moments of Giacomelli's exploration, in which the landscape becomes a psychic and symbolic space, a place of memory and inner tension rather than a real territory. A photograph that engages in dialogue with the author's most advanced experiments, confirming his poetic vocation and anti-naturalistic stance.
The works of Mario Giacomelli are represented in the permanent collections of major international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Tate in London, and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.