My Wild Places

Forty large images by Luca Campigotto (Venice, 1962), offer a journey through nature as a path of initiation and necessity of a photographer's work, amidst historical references and evocations of films. A combination of the portrayal of spaces and transformation of memory, vast scenes fixed in the intensity of their lights create a ballade for the eye. Steeped in history and expectations, the photographs here evoke the soul of places as if they were inescapable documents of a world that is destined to disappear. The pictures on display here offer a wide selection from the publication My Wild Places (Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2010) including 67 photographs in colour and black and white that were taken by the author in different parts of the world over a period of twenty years.

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Born in Venice in 1962. Lives and works in Milan. He holds a degree in modern history, has been photographing landscape, architecture, and industry since the 1980s. Between 1995 and 2000 he published three books about Venice and also photographed the mountains where the Italian battles of the First World War took place.
In 1996 he began linking his research to the theme of travel, realizing projects on Cairo, London, New York, Chicago, Tokyo, the Route of the Casbahs in Morocco, Angkor in Cambodia, the desert of Atacama in Chile, Patagonia, Easter Island, India, Yemen, Iran, and Lapland.
He has exhibited at: Mois de la Photo, Paris; Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal; MAXXI, Rome; Venice Biennale; Festival della Fotografia, Rome; MEP, Paris; Galleria Gottardo, Lugano; IVAM, Valencia; The Art Museum, Miami; and The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami.
His works are held in private and public collections, in Italy and in several foreign countries.
He has always pursued an interest in writing and is currently working on a book project that links his poetry and photographs.


Fortuny Museum
San Marco 3758, Campo San Beneto, Venice
from september 4, 2010 to january 9, 2011

WORKS ON DISPLAY


1.
Moon Valley, Atacama, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

2.
Moon Valley, Atacama, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper, cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

3.
Moon Valley, Atacama, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper, cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

4.
Atacama Desert, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

5.
Atacama Desert, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

6.
Atacama Desert, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

7.
Salar de Atacama, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

8.
Salar de Atacama, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

9.
San Rafael Lagoon, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

10.
El Tatio Geysers, Atacama, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

11.
Lake Grey, Towers of Paine, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

12.
Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

13.
Straits of Magellan, Argentina 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

14.
Rio Grande, Patagonia, Argentina 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

15.
Tierra del Fuego, Patagonia, Argentina 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

16.
Dades Valley, Morocco 1995
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

17.
Route to Ouarzazate, Morocco 1995
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

18.
Road of Heroes, Pasubio, Italy 1995
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

19.
Road of Heroes, Pasubio, Italy 1995
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

20.
Fradusta Glacier, Dolomites, Italy 1995
stampa ai pigmenti su carta Epson, cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

21.
Chiaia di Luna, Ponza, Italy 2007
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

22.
Ventotene, Italy 2007
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

23.
Lignano Beach, Italy 1996
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

24.
Ramlat as-Sab’atayn Desert, Yemen 2006
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

25.
Lut Desert, Iran 2009
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

26.
Lut Desert, Iran 2009
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

27.
Lut Desert, Iran 2009
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

28.
Gulf of Bothnia, Lapland 2003
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

29.
Gulf of Bothnia, Lapland 2003
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

30.
Gulf of Bothnia, Lapland 2003
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

31.
Likir, Ladakh, India 2007
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

32.
Zoji La Pass, Ladakh, India 2007
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

33.
Lamayuru, Ladakh, India 2007
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

34.
Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia, Cambogia 2006
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

35.
Indus River, Ladakh, India 2007
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

36.
Towers of Silence, Yazd, Iran 2009
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

37.
View from Kawkaban, Yemen 2006
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

38.
Easter Island, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 137,5
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

39.
San Pedro de Atacama, Chile 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 270
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery

40.
Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina 2000
pigment print on Epson paper,
cm. 110 x 270
Courtesy Bugno Art Gallery