#contemporaryart #contemporaryphotography #mixedmediaart #mixedmediapainting #photographer #photographylovers #collageartwork #giuseppealletto #videoart #artvideos Contemporary Art: original video editing mixed Photography artwork by Giuseppe Alletto visual artist .here's a video I made about one of my mixed media photographs printed on paper with some collage elements and some thermic tape on panel . We live immersed in images, in a world that generates images as a continuous stream, especially of a photographic nature, and in which photography has become so ubiquitous and within grasp (i.e. of smartphones) that it no longer feels like a technique, but rather a simple extension of our gaze. It is capable of generating, recovering, archiving and transmitting images with the same ease with which we breathe. What happens to photography as an artistic activity and art form in an environment like this? Now that art has reached the “gaseous state”, to use a beautiful image by Yves Michaud, and that the aestheticization of the images is the very air we breathe, what can an artist who works with this medium do? . An answer to this question can be found in a best-selling book firstly published in 2004, then updated and extended several times, with its fourth edition just translated by Einaudi: "Photography as Contemporary Art", written by Charlotte Cotton, curator of important collections of photography such as that of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The answer should not be sought by reading the theoretical part, in the form of some definition or proposal of aesthetic criteria, but by looking at the works and looking in the text for the idea or project (often these are images taken from a series) that the artist tried to embody in them, and the process through which he made them. The best merit of the book is in fact the extraordinary quantity and diversity of the selected photographs: it is a bird's eye view of the production of hundreds of artists, of which 273 works are shown, mostly made during the last thirty years. In almost all cases, only one photo per artist was chosen, with a brief comment that summarizes the type of research and poetics that that image and that author pursue. This makes it difficult to give the right critical weight to the works, but is at the same time an «unavoidable simplification», as the author says, in order to have a reasonably broad overview of recent art photography in the world. . The overall impression of this overview is revealed in the very first lines: the only "dominant idea" in contemporary photography is its "wonderful pluralism" (a consideration that is, however, valid for all art characterized by the post-Duchampian paradigm and by what Arthur Danto called "aesthetic anarchy"). To guide us in this wonderful pluralism, Cotton proposes a typology which, according to him, is not based much on contents or styles, but on "motivations and work practices" (in reality, as we will see, there are also categories defined by subject matter and actual styles). Each of the nine chapters of the book therefore brings together photos and photographers who share a certain way of conceiving photography, a certain type of research, and has an evocative title, like the one a curator - which in fact the author is - could give to the selection of works and artists for a themed exhibition. The first chapter, entitled “If this is art”, proposes a modality inspired by the artistic research that gave impetus to the contemporary paradigm in the sixties and seventies, dominated by conceptual art and performance art. . . These artists’ and these photos’ common denominator is the planning and staging of an event that will be captured by the photo shoot. The focus, however, is not as much the concept-project itself, nor the unrepeatable event in presence, like it was in the cited art, but the image constructed through a planned action. (Author Luigi Bonfante) --------------------------------------------------- hi my name's Giuseppe Alletto ! I'm an Italian Visual Artist. I work as an artist with three galleries in Italy (Spaziotemporaneo gallery in Milan, Weber e Weber gallery in Turin and La Fonderia in Florence, with a gallery in Barcelona (Spain) and with another gallery in Lisboa (Portugal). I'm a Painter and I create photographs, videos and Installations too. Send me a direct message for more infos about my artworks. https://www.instagram.com/giuseppe_al... https://www.facebook.com/giuseppealle... https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-... https://twitter.com/giuseppeallett1 https://www.giuseppeallettoitalianart...