NYAB Event - Marinella Paolini "Urban Soul"

Marinella Paolini "Urban Soul"

BOSI Contemporary

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Marinella Paolini has chosen to direct her focus to urban reality by singling out as her privileged subject architectural structures, which she carefully observes and analyses in their distinguishing details. Her photographic exploration of these structures is directed neither simply at documentation, nor at an objective and descriptive representation of reality, but precisely at an aesthetic expression of her subjects. For Mrs. Paolini architecture is not only one of the forms of external reality to be captured with her photographic device: it represents above all a field of action, a certain “dynamics of the gaze”. This allows her to perform a gesture, namely one of “shoot and release” that tends to catch not just an event, a “situ-action”, an unrepeatable instant, but also the “physiognomical” aspect of the structures, by probing their details up to the detection of the frame that best renders its features, as if it were a face to portray and therefore to grasp its essence, its soul. Deliberately disinterested in landscape, in sight and panoramic shot, the artist restricts her vision to the single subject, catching a particular, which is representative and recapitulatory of the whole. The image she obtains becomes emblematic, seizing the impact from an utter gaze.

For a scrupulous analysis of her work, It is essential to consider the most important characteristic of her operative methodology, that is the investigation and the accurate choice of the printing materials used, an operation that marks the whole production of the artist. Works like Urban Soul (formerly Architecture Project from Interior to Exterior) are all printed directly, using the UV inks inkjet technology, on a rigid material used in architecture as a structural element, the Glossy Dibond. An innovative technique conceived by the artist to obtain an outcome that allows image and material coincide, in an exclusive and complete symbiosis.

This series of photographic images presents shots of daring compositions, slanted cuttings, surreal perspectives, and close-up elements on which she acts in a digital post-production second phase (therefore, in a “clear room”), a subsequent moment of creative elaboration that, with the increase of contrasts, the partial desaturation of tones and the emphasis of some colours, allows her to obtain images that are on the borderline of neoplastic abstraction.
Marinella Paolini’s investigations demonstrate how photographic technique has no imposed limits but it is able to renew itself continuously, keeping up with technological changes, submitted to its own expressive requirements and even anticipating their developmental perspectives. What is more interesting is the refined sensitivity of the artist in singling out subjects of particular visual quality, exalted by the artist’s ability to synthesize, which emphasizes their formal characteristics and allows the perception of a segment of reality that would be impossible to seize better.
Adapted from Alessandro Trabucco’s

Marinella Paolini; Lo sguardo totale

[Image: Marinella Paolini "Gehry House, Dusseldorf"]