Mario Cravo Neto is one of the most interesting and revolutionary contemporary photographers who are changing the history of photography.
Unique, inimitable, Cravo Neto invented a magical universe in which reality (people and objects) and subtle metaphysical references find harmony in images with a strong visual impact. What are apparently portraits of his everyday acquaintances – his wife, children and friends – are transformed by a few simple tricks into symbolic figures and archetypes of a humanity lost in the cancellation of cultures. Compositions of still lifes which transgress the classic canons inherited from the pictorial tradition and captured in photographs.
As in his portraits, Cravo Neto’s still lifes reject all aestheticising attempts. Every one of his photographs has an ultra-pure meaning that casts its roots in the communication of intimate stories.
Trained as a sculptor, the son of the best-known Brazilian sculptor, he instinctively works with tactile materialism and three-dimensionality, managing to transpose it into the photographic image by a miracle of visual and technical skill.
Mario Cravo Neto is one of the most interesting and revolutionary contemporary photographers who are changing the history of photography.
Unique, inimitable, Cravo Neto invented a magical universe in which reality (people and objects) and subtle metaphysical references find harmony in images with a strong visual impact. What are apparently portraits of his everyday acquaintances – his wife, children and friends – are transformed by a few simple tricks into symbolic figures and archetypes of a humanity lost in the cancellation of cultures. Compositions of still lifes which transgress the classic canons inherited from the pictorial tradition and captured in photographs.
As in his portraits, Cravo Neto’s still lifes reject all aestheticising attempts. Every one of his photographs has an ultra-pure meaning that casts its roots in the communication of intimate stories.
Trained as a sculptor, the son of the best-known Brazilian sculptor, he instinctively works with tactile materialism and three-dimensionality, managing to transpose it into the photographic image by a miracle of visual and technical skill.