The Given Space Of Arne Maasik
Arne Maasik and the exploration of the threshold concept in photography. With ‘Given Space/Spazio Dato’, the Estonian artist tries to overcome this theme with a precise work in which he balances light and perspective. The more one stands in front of his pictures, the more one feels the need to look further. No matter what the represented subject is – a city, a tangle of vegetation, an empty room – its attractive power embraces the observer and takes him in front of an edge. Dissolving the idea of space, the threshold itself becomes a sort of moving door. Maasik chooses to print his shots on canvas because “it is a surface where there is no flow, it absorbs the light and gives more density to the images.” This way, he is able to fill the part of the process of relating the public to his given space.
Arne Maasik, Given Space/Spazio Dato, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, through 15 June 2014.
by Manuele Menconi
in News
Jun 9, 2014