Video: Masquerade: Creative Photography by Giuseppe Mastromatteo
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Appearance is deceiving, and the eyes are really a mirror of the soul - an impenetrable glass with which a person is fenced off from the world. What is our life? Masquerade. Italian Giuseppe Mastromatteo took a series of creative photographs in which people hide their feelings under masks and fenced off from the world with their palms. But is there at least something behind the man-made faces? Or are they just masking the void?
Photographer Giuseppe Mastromatteo, 41, was born and raised in Milan, but now lives and works in New York. He is involved in the advertising business, writes about art and works with the Milan Museum as Art Director. She also likes to create unusual portraits of people. For 6 years now, creative photographs of Giuseppe Mastromatteo have been exhibited for all to see in art galleries.
Characters in creative photographs with eyes and ears growing on their hands and lips on the back of the head make you wonder what this surreal photo art means. The author himself admits that in his works there are references to the works of Rene Magritte and Man Ray.
In postmodernism there is a term simulacrum. It denotes a copy from a non-existent original, in fact an empty shell, a word without meaning, a mask, under which there is no face. We certainly hope that the characters of Giuseppe Mastromatteo really have something to hide, that they are complex and maybe even tragic.
And what if they have not had any riddle for centuries, and the cardboard characters of the new show are completely without a divine spark? Behind a mask, palms, a curtain of hair, a face can be hidden, which in the same way does not express anything. Or maybe nothing at all is hidden. But finding out the truth is not easy.
In the story of Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the woman talked about the recent death of her son very calmly and casually, but at that time she nervously crumpled her handkerchief. The lady's interlocutor admired her endurance and ability to restrain grief, but a little later he read about a hackneyed theatrical reception, when the artist, supposedly suppressing emotions, furiously fiddles with a handkerchief. Where do the layers of masks end? This question cannot be resolved either by the classics of Japanese literature, or by the contemporary Italian photographer.
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