Carlo D’Orta (Firenze, 1955).
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Traveler and photographer for over 40 years, in the years 2003-2012 he attended advanced courses in painting at the Rome University of Fine Arts (RUFA) and a master's degree in photography at the IED in Milan and devoted himself to the study of contemporary art. His photographic vision undergoes a complete transformation. He abandon the documentary approach and look for shots tending towards abstraction, or veined by a metaphysical / surrealist vision. The chromatic sensitivity matured also during the training course gives to his photographs a strong pictorial characterization, sometimes the result of limited interventions in post-production on lights and colors.
It privileges architectural photography and the landscape, to which it dedicates different series.
The BIOCITIES series tells the contemporary architectures or their details trying to extract from them pictures of geometric abstraction, having in the eyes and in the mind the paintings of Malevic, El Lissitzky, Mondrian, Rotchko and others.
The VIBRATIONS series focuses instead on reflections and deformations produced by the windows of skyscrapers or other mirrored surfaces, which produce abstract images in a futurist / surrealist style.
The series of installations + photography titled (DE)COMPOSITION-METAPHOR OF LIFE reworks the photographs of the Biocities series by breaking down the pieces and then recomposing them in sculptures (in metal, Murano glass or Plexiglas) that create a new architectural structure, made of the same pieces present in photography, but different from the architecture that is the object of photography. Hence the "metaphor of life" is born: Freud and Jung explain to us, in fact, that our personality evolves continuously by decomposing and recomposing the same bricks of our mind.
The EUR 42/TODAY.DIFFERENT VISIONS series, result of a research conducted in 2017, tells - sometimes metaphysically, sometimes tending to abstraction - the three architectural seasons developed in the 80 years of the Roman quarter (rationalism / neoclassical, modern style, contemporary style) . This research translated into 2018 (EUR 80th birthday) in personal exhibitions by Carlo D'Orta at the Central State Archives Museum (May / June), at the Photography Festival in Orbetello (July) and at the gallery of IPSAR-Portuguese Institute of S. Antonio (in the center of Rome), and still in the publication of an art book with authoritative critical texts (280 pages, 180 photographs, 24x28).
The LIQUIDANCE series, started in 2015, tells about contemporary dance with the same
abstractizing vision of the photographs dedicated to architecture. The eye focuses not on traditional figures, but on the shadows of the dancers or on the vibrations of movement.
Since 2009 he has exhibited his works in solo shows at private galleries and public institutions and in art fairs in Italy, Germany, France, Belgium, Singapore and other countries. In 2013 he held his first personal museal exhibition (Biology of the Inorganic) at the Palazzo Collicola Museum of Contemporary Art in Spoleto. In 2015 the Officina delle Zattere of Venice hosted, next to the Guatemala Pavilion at the Biennale of Art, his personal exhibition Beyond the Lens, then also taken to the Pomona Temple in Salerno. In January 2017, the National Museum in Singapore hosted a "one day" event dedicated to the Vibrazioni series. In 2018, the Central State Archives Museum in Rome hosted, during May and June, its personal exhibition “Eur 42 / Oggi. Different visions”. In october-december 2022 the Museum Casa Gaia da Camino in Portobuffolè (TV, Italy) hosted his personal exhibition “Geometrie Vitali”.
He won or was a finalist / selected in numerous national and international awards, including Sony W
