From monumental industrial architecture to the interiors of strange machines; from night views of cities flickering like active volcanos to gleaming high-tech laboratories; from neat boxes of fruit or vegetables to the sprawling agro-industrial farmlands of Argentina, Carlo Valsecchi alternates between the near and the far, between precise figuration and poetic abstraction. His large-format photographs, devoid of human presence, often take unexpected vantage points, which, while initially destabilizing our perception, then encourage us to engage more actively with the image.
In Valsecchi work, there is no dualistic split between the subjects he engages with and his mental vision of them; rather, there is ongoing interaction between what the artist sees, his understandings of it and the creative outcome.
From monumental industrial architecture to the interiors of strange machines; from night views of cities flickering like active volcanos to gleaming high-tech laboratories; from neat boxes of fruit or vegetables to the sprawling agro-industrial farmlands of Argentina, Carlo Valsecchi alternates between the near and the far, between precise figuration and poetic abstraction. His large-format photographs, devoid of human presence, often take unexpected vantage points, which, while initially destabilizing our perception, then encourage us to engage more actively with the image.
In Valsecchi work, there is no dualistic split between the subjects he engages with and his mental vision of them; rather, there is ongoing interaction between what the artist sees, his understandings of it and the creative outcome.