Photography titled "Collection "Seeing…" by Emanuele Vitale, Original Artwork, Digital Photography Mounted on Other rigid pa…

Collection "Seeing beyond discoveries" #3 Limited Edition (2019) Photography by Emanuele Vitale

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Mounted on Other rigid panel

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Limited Edition (#1/7) Photography, Digital Photography on Other substrate

Artworks classification

Limited Edition

The edition run is over. The number of works produced has been determined and included in the listing.
Dimensions Height 41.3in, Width 55.1in
Framing This artwork is not framed
Categories Photographs under $5,000 Conceptual Art Portrait

A discovery destined to revolutionize the world, finds its definitive consecration in 1954 thanks to Giulio Natta with the discovery of “Moplen” (polyethylene). A material that will enter everyday life and will revolutionize habits and customs of each of us thanks also to the economic boom that will characterize the 50s / 60s / 70s. Plastic, commonly called, will have an increasingly widespread diffusion and uses unthinkable at the time. What in the 1950s seemed a revolutionary discovery after 70 years has turned into an environmental problem. Through my lens, I want to tell the current drama linked to plastics and the resulting pollution. Plastic is made from a dark, black substance, oil; only during the production process is it transformed into a semi-finished product rich in color, a process to make a product more captivating and fashionable. My work starts from that black, from that color that expresses all the drama of what I saw through my lens. Plastic envelops our environment, in some areas of the planet it is enough to immerse yourself in the sea to find yourself surrounded by this indestructible material, my story begins with a simple immersion, an immersion in a world full of plastic, what at first had to be an amusement turns into a dramatic experience. The plastic envelops the face, submerges it, the astonished gaze, the desperate eyes that yes confuse with the caps themselves, there is no longer a division between us and the plastic. We are submerged, pervaded. Once immersed, we find ourselves enveloped, entangled by submerged layers that prevent movement and are a denial of the freedom dictated by our seas. A desperate scream of pain, a scream of terror because the material that was supposed to simplify life has actually turned into a denial of life itself. In the end, a desperate, pleading hand tries to be a signal of alarm, a cry for help to seek a lifeline, but in the end the tragedy, the brutality of the face emerges which is abandoned lifeless among the residues of plastic material. A raw, direct path that exacerbates the brutality and difficulty of living in a destroyed environment. My goal is a denunciation and my work wants to stimulate a new rebirth, in the hope that that hand that begs for help can re-emerge in a better world. 2020 ND-Neutral Density Photography Awards 2020 1st place ND Awards 2020 in Fine Art - Conceptual Discovery of The Year - Fine Art Large edition of 7 plus 2 artist proofs on aluminum size 1050 x 1400mm x 13 mm Photography: Color, Print on Dibond ( Aluminum) Edition 1 of 7 Each edition is signed and numbered by the artist Customers are solely responsible for all duties, import taxes and brokerage fees. These are not included in the cost of shipping or handling of your order. Customs, duties, and taxes vary widely from country to country. Please check with your local customs agency for details on estimated costs. Customs, duty, and taxes are non-refundable. So if you refuse a shipment because of unexpected import fees, the cost of the original shipping, any brokerage / customs / duty / taxes, and any return shipping charges will not be refunded.

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Emanuele Vitale

Italy

Syracusan doc, but also lived for a long time elsewhere, my diving training was rather heterogeneous and rather brilliant. In a certain sense, I have burned many stages, covering all the roles in the qualifications related to diving, even reaching that of instructor trainer. One day, however, I realized that all the sea I had learned up to that moment was the sea I had inside, in short, on closer inspection it wasn't a great way to share some of it with others. It was a sea that at best I could tell. And since sometimes telling is not enough, images are also needed. So, once I tried the first sub shot, the others arrived accordingly. And it was a new birth: like when I realized that with the self-contained breathing apparatus I could take another breath underwater after the first, and then another, and another, until I lost count. The images, the photos, the dives, those colors of silence: being able to describe that sea even without talking about it. A universal dialect, the language of emotions. In 2011 I went to the Italian Underwater Photography Championship for the first time and I won it in the Compact category. Today my specialization, which I try to convey to those who come to visit me in my club-diving, is precisely underwater photography performed with compact cameras: often not too expensive devices, from which I can get unthinkable things. Convincing even the most skeptical that the image is not only in the equipment, which you must know, but in the eye and heart of the shooter. When words are not enough, images are needed! " Perhaps this is why my motto is "click an emotion".