VISA 183 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Piero Manzoni, Artforum, Soot
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Claudio parmiggiani, an italian contemporary artist born in 1943. He utilizes materials such as fire, smoke, soot and ash to imprint on paper and wood. He uses this technique to depict veil- like forms of light, shade, and movement that isn"t physically there. He utilizes the mediums of collage, sculpture, installation, and photography as a way of creating and manipulating images and objects with evident influence of georgio morandi, an artist whose studio he often visited in the 1950s. And also showing influences from marcel douchamp, who works with conceptual art and piero manzoni. His altair piece from 2007 is an anvil and wood, placed in front of a white canvas with soot spread upwards beyond the edge of the canvas. This piece is particularly interesting and indicative of parmiggiani"s style. Born in 1955 in germany, andreas gursky"s medium of preference for his contemporary photography is large-scale prints. Carefully capturing the modern world"s content: landscapes, people, architecture, industries, etc.
