Massimo Vitali Exhibition
Benrubi Gallery
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This is Vitali's third solo exhibition at the Bonni Benrubi Gallery. Vitali continues to add to his acclaimed oeuvre of large-scale color works depicting people at play, masses at leisure. Photographing beach scenes, popular ski locations, and tourist destinations we are able to see ourselves with the perspective of distance as we interact with our environment. Massimo Vitali began his career as a photojournalist and in 1994 went on to pursue his own vision. Working with large format cameras and positioning himself 20 feet above ground level on a human tripod, he began to create the images we now recognize as uniquely his: open landscapes and the social dynamics played out on them. Vitali turns his eye to landscapes of leisure, places meant for enjoyment, where people do not have all their defenses up. What we see in Vitali's landscapes are microcosms of our society and they reveal to us the commonalities across nations and cultures. From the beaches of Brazil, and Sicily to the ski slopes of the Alps this becomes evident: our essential human qualities and how we choose to spend our time.
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Schedule
from January 31, 2008 to March 29, 2008