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Cultures Clash (Series)
DESCRIPTION
The contrast between our "civilized" and the third and fourth world is a problem that is becoming more and more relevant. Thus, people with different cultures, education, beliefs and way of living are more and more living close together. Cultural clashing becomes inevitable and occurring with varying degrees of intensity. It may even become one of the major problems in the near future. Already 2009 Samuel Huntington wrote in an editorial "it is my hypothesis that the fundamental source of conflict in this new world will not be primarily ideological or primarily economic. The great divisions among humankind and the dominating source of conflict will be cultural … The fault lines of civilizations will be the battle lines of the future.” (Nature 2009;457:129). In this series I am picturing this problem by superimposing in a vanishing manner two different way of living, people of the so called "third" world that look at our world, may be asking "this is really the right way of leaving?"
AUTHOR
I was born in Locarno, Switzerland. After high school I studied Dentistry and specialized in Switzerland and USA becoming Professor at the University of Zurich, of which I am emeritus Professor.
At the end of my professional career, I started using the photo camera as an instrument not to document but to take snapshots that are successively decomposed and recomposed in order to create "chromatic suggestions". The goal is to create vibrant counterpoints, often vanishing, by the superimposition and insertion of subjects and different, often blurred, layers.
Exibitions
2008 Abbazia di Spineto, Sarteano, Italy (Personal)
2017 Biosfera, Padua, Italy (Personal)
2019 ArteFiera Dolomiti, Longarone, Italy
2019 3rd Kunstmesse Dolomiten, Weiz, Austria
2019 Webart, Treviso, Italy
2019 Exposition "Women", Cortina d'Ampezzo and Venice, Italy
2019 Personal Exposition, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy
Awards
2019 1. Price for Photography at Artefiera Dolomiti, Longarone, Italy
2019 Nominee in Photomanipulation, Fine Art Photography Awards
At the end of my professional career, I started using the photo camera as an instrument not to document but to take snapshots that are successively decomposed and recomposed in order to create "chromatic suggestions". The goal is to create vibrant counterpoints, often vanishing, by the superimposition and insertion of subjects and different, often blurred, layers.
Exibitions
2008 Abbazia di Spineto, Sarteano, Italy (Personal)
2017 Biosfera, Padua, Italy (Personal)
2019 ArteFiera Dolomiti, Longarone, Italy
2019 3rd Kunstmesse Dolomiten, Weiz, Austria
2019 Webart, Treviso, Italy
2019 Exposition "Women", Cortina d'Ampezzo and Venice, Italy
2019 Personal Exposition, Fondazione Benetton, Treviso, Italy
Awards
2019 1. Price for Photography at Artefiera Dolomiti, Longarone, Italy
2019 Nominee in Photomanipulation, Fine Art Photography Awards
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