Aerial images by Italian photographer Giacomo Giannini become a series of rugs
A photographic exhibition and rugs are not natural bedfellows, but Seletti has never
been known to shy from crossing boundaries and transforming artists’ visions into
objects capable of making art accessible: hence Walking into an image.
The three 280cm x 200cm designs are based on aerial photographs taken in Italy by Giacomo Giannini between 1985 and 1992, and provided somewhat unusual exhibits at the annual The Phair photography exhibition in Turin in May.
The three shots offer a new interpretation of the landscape from a perspective not that common pre-drones, and reflect on the relationship between people and the environment, with an almost painterly character.
The three subjects play with chromatic saturation and urban geometries. Holiday at the seaside #18 is a tribute to the aesthetics of Italian coastlines, where summer crowding
is transformed into a composition of shapes and saturated colours.
By contrast, Sfasciacarrozze (Scrapyard) elevates mechanical chaos into a complex
and hypnotic chromatic texture, while Basket focuses on the melancholic Charm of an empty playground marked by time, where the human absence emphasises the graphic strength of the lines and worn materials.
