Pictures at an Exhibition

[Gianluca Drago]

Even in a small town like mine, there are blocks that are ageing prematurely. In this building complex, even the graffiti writers' writings are ageing and are no longer renewed. They fade, they lose their meaning, they now look like small pictures at an exhibition.

 

[Gary Ayala]

Interesting. I appreciate how you equally treated/framed each graffiti panel/access doors about the same. The rust on the doors give testament to a passage of time. I wonder if B/W would have presented additional texture ...

 

[Gianluca Drago]

I was tempted to try B&W, but no, I think the colours of spray cans still have something to tell. Thanks, Gary.

 

[Rob MacKillop]

Excellent series! I too appreciate the role of colour here. Of course, our whole world could be viewed as a mass of pictures at an endless exhibition, so we have to be selective to make sense of it, and you have selected well, Gianluca.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Excellent series! I too appreciate the role of colour here. Of course, our whole world could be viewed as a mass of pictures at an endless exhibition, so we have to be selective to make sense of it, and you have selected well, Gianluca.

Certainly what we see every day is a universal exhibition, if we look hard enough. In this case, these rusty iron cabinets, white originally, with a vanishing trace of faded graffiti, struck me because each of them seemed like a small abstract work of art and all together they seemed to bear the signature of the same author. It seems to me that time has made this possible.

Thanks, Rob, I'm glad you enjoyed this little series.

 

[Peter Roberts]

Goof stuff, Gianluca.
I particularly like the first five. The similar geometry of the composition binds them together into a coherent series in their own right.

 

[Gianluca Drago]

Thank you, Peter! Actually the true 'exhibition' consists only of the first five pictures, while the others are there just to give you a bit of the context.