catalogue Spring 2012 - exhibitions international

cardinal points
andrea garuti
photography
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Andrea Garuti
Cardinal Points
Text by Andrea Salvatici
24 x 30 cm. 9.5 x 11.5 inches
Pgs. 96 Ill. 50
Hardback
English/Italian
Release date Spring 2012
Rights world
Usd 40.00 GbP 24.95
ISBN > 978-88-6208-194-8
With this volume, Italian photographer Andrea Garuti returns
to his favorite practice, the depiction of cities. Organized around
the idea of “cardinal points,” it portrays buildings and urban
views in Berlin (north), Las Vegas (west), Cairo (south) and Hong
Kong (east) with a painterly blurring treatment that animates
the structures.
Andrea Garuti, born in Florence in 1965, took up photography at
the age of 13 under the guidance of his father, a photographer of
architecture. From the mid 90’s onwards he alternated commissions
from big multinationals (Etro, Fay, Champion...) with photojournalism
for magazines such as Elle, Glamour, Cosmopolitan,
Marie Claire, Case da Abitare, Elle Decor, Amica, Io Donna and
Vogue. In 2006 he held his first solo exhibition, Urbe tremula, at
the Romberg arte spaces in Rome. Garuti’s work has developed
recently into an admixture of painting and photography, whose
technique involves the transfer of images reproduced on paper
and plaster.
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