{"product_id":"16196-carlo-valsecchi","title":"Carlo Valsecchi","description":"\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003eFrom monumental industrial architecture to the interiors of strange machines, from night views of cities flickering like active volcanoes to gleaming high-tech laboratories, from neat boxes of fruits or vegetables to the sprawling agro-industrial farmlands of Argentina—Carlo Valsecchi alternates between the near and the far, between precise figuration and poetic abstraction. His large-format photographs, devoid of human presence, often take unexpected vantage points, which, while initially destabilizing our perception, then encourage us to engage more actively with the image.\u003c?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" \/\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP class=MsoNormal style=\"MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none\"\u003e\u003cFONT size=2\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; COLOR: black; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003eAlthough much\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN lang=EN-US style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: TheSans; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial\"\u003e of his work is clearly within the strong tradition of the industrial landscape developed by the German school (Becher, Gursky), Valsecchi has found his \u003cSPAN style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003eown expressive register, tending toward the monochrome. \u003c\/SPAN\u003eThe special qualities of the images have to do with the \u003cSPAN style=\"COLOR: black\"\u003eextremely soft palette and nuanced chromatic scale, features that sharply differentiate his photographs from mainstream color practice. Painterly in its sensibility, Valsecchi's work evokes the pictorial grandeur of American Abstract Expressionism.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/FONT\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n\u003cP\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: DE\"\u003eExhibition schedule: Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, May 2\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Tahoma; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: DE\"\u003e–June \u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003cSPAN style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-language: DE\"\u003e14, 2009\u003cSPAN style=\"mso-spacerun: yes\"\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003c\/SPAN\u003eAnd further venues\u003c\/SPAN\u003e\u003c\/P\u003e\n","brand":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44874904961288,"sku":"9783775724104","price":39.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8948\/8049\/files\/odoo_9783775724104_a5ecb1bc-6f89-444c-9cbe-932a389fc4f5.jpg?v=1744050861","url":"https:\/\/www.hatjecantz.de\/en\/products\/16196-carlo-valsecchi","provider":"Hatje Cantz Verlag","version":"1.0","type":"link"}