ARTIST PROFILE

Franco Monari

  • Italy (b. 1981 in Carpi)
  • Currently in Italy.
  • In his work Monari treats questions concerning time passing and memory, and he investigates on the impact of technologies on society. Monari’s practice combines photography, painting and objects, creating a work intensely personal and biographical.
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    E POI VERRA' LA NEBBIA / AND THEN WILL COME THE FOG | 2016

This series of photographs is born from Monari's need to grant him some moments in which get out and explore the landscape in solitude for a few hours. Without a planned route nor a clear destination, but with the only need for isolation and taking pictures, Monari always returns to the same places over and over again by establishing a special relationship with them like a personal microcosm. The exploration and the relationship between place and memory become fundamental elements in the formation of a personal identity. The explored landscape is where the artist was born, grew up and in which he lives: a part of Padan Plain's that extends from the countryside of "la bassa" (low plain) to the right banks of the River Po. In order to describe the different areas of land apart, Monari has adopted a distinctive look for each one: in the countryside he used a yellow sunset filters and so closer he get to the river, much the photos turn to a red and green color dominant.