Gianfranco Pezzot

Seaside Holiday Camp

2007

Conceptually, Barry Underwood's work is situated at the intersection of Land Art, Staged Photography, and Minimalist Sculpture. Using shapes, lines, light, geometry and especially co...

French artist and photographer Georges Rousse, b. 1947, converts abandoned or soon-to-be-demolished buildings into surprising visions of color and shape. Rousse translates his intui...

Ballon, white, landscape, water

Italian photographer Gianfranco Pezzot has always been interested in the ways we shape, use, and experience the environments we create. Having felt the need to extensively research f...

Italian photographer Gianfranco Pezzot has always been interested in the ways we shape, use, and experience the environments we create. Having felt the need to extensively research for his work, the Resorts series emphasizes the relationship between the economical need for tourism and the lasting effects it plays on the environments we inhabit. Inviting scenery is isolated from its usual friendly connotations. Like ghost towns, these abandoned buildings give us the feeling of an artificial aesthetic, built just for holidays then quickly abandoned. By focusing on the shape of these places and his own spiritual connections to them, Gianfranco Pezzot demonstrates the acceptance of the inevitable. The shift of summer extends inside the buildings also, exacerbated by pure white, perfectly still lines. Buildings become art, free to stand regardless of their new ambition to just be. Gianfranco Pezzot's work has been published in several books and magazines like K*MoPA Photographs by the Next Generation, Eyemazing, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art Exhibitons and Tiger Art...

Italian photographer Gianfranco Pezzot has always been interested in the ways we shape, use, and experience the environments we create. Having felt the need to extensively research f...

"XXX 48 Eagle festival, Tsambagarav mountain, Altai mountains Mongolia The Mongolian Kazakhs travelled through Russia to the Mongolian Altai Mountains living as semi-nomads, moving...

"XXX 48 Eagle festival, Tsambagarav mountain, Altai mountains Mongolia The Mongolian Kazakhs travelled through Russia to the Mongolian Altai Mountains living as semi-nomads, moving...

"XXX 48 Eagle festival, Tsambagarav mountain, Altai mountains Mongolia The Mongolian Kazakhs travelled through Russia to the Mongolian Altai Mountains living as semi-nomads, moving...

XXXII 33 Muchimba ladies, Himba Angola 2017 The Muchimba people are a semi-nomadic people living mainly in Angola’s border area with Namibia, on the dry Kaokoveld Plateau in the Cun...

XXXII 33 Muchimba ladies, Himba Angola 2017 The Muchimba people are a semi-nomadic people living mainly in Angola’s border area with Namibia, on the dry Kaokoveld Plateau in the Cun...

"XXX 48 Eagle festival, Tsambagarav mountain, Altai mountains Mongolia The Mongolian Kazakhs travelled through Russia to the Mongolian Altai Mountains living as semi-nomads, moving...