Maurizio Bavutti - Between myth and reality

We live in a delicate moment in which our relationship with the environment is compromised by a series of nostalgic memories and the tragic fate of contemporary truth. My photographic research, through portraits and landscapes, aims to deepen this spatio-temporal relationship between human beings and nature, which is inseparable from the emotional awareness of the spirit. The play of chromatic values, which I achieve through analogue techniques, seeks to add purity and harmony to the composition. The pictures are shaped through careful use of light and a quiet elegance of form, which results in the subjects being suspended in a romantic dimension that lends a timelessness to this series of portraits and landscapes. At once distant and familiar, the stillness of my works seeks to remind us of who we are and who we were. To achieve this, I dwell on the psychological tension of empty spaces and alien faces, capable of uniting past and present in a dreamlike representation of a world that straddles myth and reality. Text: Maurizio Bavutti Voice: Peter Lee + info www.audiotecafotografica.com