Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
We have been given to live a quickened time, enemy of the contemplation, we have no time for meditation. It seems that Nino have wanted to do for everyone what we aren’t allowed. He wandered through the parks of the Apennines with a Polaroid 600, but denying its being instant.
Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
He manipulated the images obtaining polapressures, a technique he has been used since the first half of the Eighties.
Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
It is incredible how just fiddling with minimal instruments it’s possible to get closer the profound substance of the means.
Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
The photographer exploited the possibilities of the medium, deformed the chromaticism and created new strokes that depended on the intervention time on the image.
Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
This meant a change in the image, an interaction, an ideal intersection in your mind between what you saw and what you thought you saw, or what you would have liked it to be.
Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Only under the influence of a great experimenter, such an extraordinary and true series of iconic images can emerge.
Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Icons that recount the mythical breath of the woods, the vital sound of Nature growing and dying in a swarm of rotting and fiery colours, cultivated on a rich abstract-informal carpet of grasses, juices, undergrowth and swamps.
Untrue Landscapes by Nino MiglioriFondazione Nino Migliori
Cancelling out all the other happy nonsense uttered for more than a hundred years about the rivalrous and jealous relationship between art and photography, reproduction and invention, the fleeting moment and the planned shoot.
Exhibition
Paesaggi Infedeli, Accademia di Belle Arti Bologna, 2008.
Publication
Paesaggi Infedeli, Damiani Editore, Bologna, 2008.
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