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Aporie: Photography and Painting Hybrids by Giovanni Castell
Nature ablaze with colour, and exalted, almost romantic, landscapes, fantastical scenes and mysterious settings, rooms shrouded in darkness and stark interiors flooded with light – Giovanni Castell’s works of art overpower us.
Advanced photo- and computer technologies have given rise to a wide spectrum of possible hybrids based on both photography and painting, and such images no longer try to provide an accurate depiction of what is there, but rely on the interpretation of a reality conveyed through the medium of digital technology or else on complete invention.
Castell is an explorer and visionary in the use of these new possibilities. He creates paintings both cheerful as well as melancholy, overwhelming as well as touching, romantic, dreamy places of longing, mysterious, surreal urban landscapes, beautiful, impressionistic nature scenes. And he provides a totally personal reply to the question as to what painting – even more than photography – can mean today.
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