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| Frank Horvat Shoe and Eiffel Tower, Paris, 1974 |
From February 24 until April 29, 2011 FineArt Photographica Gallery hosts its first year with a retrospective exhibition of Frank Horvat.
A lifetime dedicated to photography, peppering every moment of shooting, the constant search for the perfect moment, like his friend and colleague Henri Cartier-Bresson. So still lives today, almost 83 years, Frank Horvat that uses the medium of photography to describe the world around him. The link with the city of Lugano , where he lived for a long time, is strong and you can tell from the exhibition organized in the city at Photographica Gallery Fine Art, which usually focuses its exposures on a comparison of a master photographer and a young talent, and instead decided to devote himself full time to Horvat. The images cover a long span of his life, as evidenced by the title: " Frank Horvat. Photographs from 1950 to .
greatness in the author's emotions in check in every context. Born as a photojournalist, then did not disdain the world of fashion, described in a free, other than the usual, nothing more natural and glossy, so much to do school. But his relentless pursuit leads him to explore new realities, meticulously describing his daily routine.
Despite his age, Horvat not stop doing photographic research the purpose of his life, and each project is designed, studied and analyzed thoroughly. Whether the comparison with the paintings of the past, as in the series "Very Similar" (1980-86) in which women are important in the life of the photographer as portrayed in paintings of historical significance, or whether the digital games, as in the series "Bestiarium " (1993-94) in which the animals' cages photographed in European zoos are" liberated "repositioned in their natural habitat.
is often not the technical perfection to interest him - in fact the shots pile up, describing his life - but the simple reproduction of reality, as proof of his pure and genuine vocation.
VERNISSAGE
Thursday, February 24, 2011 17:00
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