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Medium: Wood
End of Day (stained glass, mosaic, metal print, wood frame)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
17.5x13.5x1
Stained Glass, Metal Print, Wood Frame
Mixed Media Art – Fine Art Photography Meets Fine Craft Mosaic-Stained Glass Frame
My award-winning Photozaics blend the textures ...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
El Campesino by James Sparshatt. Framed baryta silver gelatin print. 2001
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Viñales valley in western Cuba is a place of stunning beauty where perhaps the finest tobacco leaves in the world are grown. The tobacco farmers live hard but proud lives.
The S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Wood
Santa Maria al Bagno diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photography diptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and ritua...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Porto Miggiano (framed) - large scale photograph of Italian Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic summer beach scene in Southern Italy's Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Santa Maria al Bagno diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photography diptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and ritua...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Porto Miggiano Colony - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic summer beach scene in Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Porto Miggiano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Kate Moss 1993, Paradise Island Bahamas, Original Print Custom Framed
By Herb Ritts
Located in London, GB
For the 1994 Pirelli Calendar shot on the Paradise Island in the Bahamas, photographer Herb Ritts set out to capture in a series of nudes what he called “the gentle innocence” of Kat...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print
Carcavelos Pier Paddle (framed) - large scale photograph of summer beach scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of a summer beach scene along Portugal's Atlantic coast by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Carcavelos Pier Paddle (2016)
61.25” x 81.68” / 155.60 cm x 207.46 cm
limited edition of 6 + 2AP (signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity)
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white lacquered gallery frame
Each limited edition original Massimo Vitali photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
Disclaimer of authenticity:
although it is possible to acquire (small size) single page offset prints from the book "A Portfolio of Landscapes and Figures" (published by Steidl) in the secondary market, the artist studio strongly dissuades collectors from purchasing these single page prints outside of the context and authenticity of the complete portfolio.
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path.
Vitali worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, he would gain recognition for his highly detailed, epic-scale panoramas — sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. Vitali’s iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large-format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of the recreational habitats of modern civilization.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
'PienoVuoto'
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2020
'Human Constellations'
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
2019
Massimo Vitali: Short Stories'
Mazzoleni, London
2018
'Coastal Colonies'
Spiral, Tokyo
2017
‘Disturbed Coastal Systems’
Benrubi Gallery (New York, USA)
2016
‘Landscapes with Figures’
Guido & Schoen Arte Contemponania (Genoa, Italy)
2016
‘Massimo Vitali’
Crown Gallery (Knokke-Zoute, Belgium)
2016
‘Massimo Vitali’
Ronchini Gallery (London, UK)
2015
‘New Prints’
Hilger Next (Vienna, Austria)
2014
‘Massimo Vitali’
Studio La Citta (Verona, Italy)
2014
‘Into The White’
Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation (Porza, Switzerland)
2014
‘Sempre più pallide. Towards Achrome’
Palazzo Tadea (Spilimbergo, Italy)
2013
‘Between Normalities’
Bonni Benrubi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Plage des Catalans (framed) - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Cote d'Azur beach by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Plage des Catalans...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Cala Conta Black Dog - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Cala Conta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
1970s Nightclubs of Chicago South Side - Black woman striptease dancer
Located in London, GB
"I walked into a timeless place … full of supporting actors and actresses of every conceivable role," Abramson wrote in Light: On the South Side, published by Chicago's Numero Group ...
Category
1970s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Silv...
Porto Miggiano - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
rare vertical work featuring iconic summer beach scene in Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure
Porto Miggiano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Carrara I - large format framed photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original framed photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigme...
Malbacco Desiata - large format photograph of iconic Italian summer moment
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Malbacco Desiata, a secret swim hole in Tuscany, by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Pan di Zucchero - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
*temporary listing price reduction due to currency exchange rate
large format photograph by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Pan di Zucchero...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Wood, Archival Paper
Rosignano Llama - large scale Mediterranean beach scene in Italy (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format original photograph of the iconic Mediterranean white beaches of Rosignano in Tuscany by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of beach rites and rituals of modern leisure
From Massimo Vitali's body of works captured along Italy's (almost deserted) beaches in the pandemic summer of 2020
Spiagge Bianche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Arch...
Dagoberto by James Sparshatt. Black and white portrait of an old Cuban musician
Located in Coltishall, GB
Black and white portrait of a Cuban musician called Dagoberto. Dagoberto began playing his guitar in the Casa de la Trova in Holguin, Cuba, in 1944. Sixty years later in 2004 I had ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Wood
El Descanso by James Sparshatt - Photograph, Gelatin Print with Wood Frame, 2000
Located in Coltishall, GB
Each day the students at the School of Spanish Dance in Havana strut and twirl and leap across boards tin dance studios hat have seen better days. The da...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood
Lampedusa (framed) - large scale photograph of Mediterranean summer beach scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of a summer beach scene on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, from an earlier body of works (2012) by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Lampedusa (2012)
61.25” x 81.7” / 156 cm x 207,5 cm
limited edition of 6 + 2AP (signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity)
last available edition: AP1
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white lacquered gallery frame
Each limited edition original Massimo Vitali photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
Disclaimer of authenticity:
although it is possible to acquire (small size) single page offset prints from the book "A Portfolio of Landscapes and Figures" (published by Steidl) in the secondary market, the artist studio strongly dissuades collectors from purchasing these single page prints outside of the context and authenticity of the complete portfolio.
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path.
Vitali worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, he would gain recognition for his highly detailed, epic-scale panoramas — sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. Vitali’s iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large-format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of the recreational habitats of modern civilization.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 94/22
Zander Galerie, Cologne
2024 Photolux Festival - Il bel paese?
Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy
2023 La Grande Oasi - The way we live, now
OCA, Oasy Contemporary Art, Pistoia
2023
Standing Still
Cortona On The Move, Arezzo, Italy
2022
Massimo Vitali PhotoESPANA
Biblioteca Central Cantabria, Santander
2022
Endless Summer
Edwin Hook Gallery, New York
2022
Massimo Vitali: Leporello 2020
Melbourne
2022
Ti ho visto
Mazzoleni Gallery, Turin
2021
PienoVuoto
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2021
No Country For Old Men
Visionarea Art Space, Rome
2020
'Human Constellations'
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
2019
Massimo Vitali: Short Stories'
Mazzoleni, London
2018
'Coastal Colonies'
Spiral, Tokyo
2017
‘Disturbed Coastal Systems’
Benrubi Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Monopoli Sunrise (framed) - large scale photo of Mediterranean beach ritual
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Puglia ritual by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern lei...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Lily '23 - organic cotton canvas scroll on bamboo, limited edition 5
Located in London, GB
Lily '23
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a scroll.
Photograph is signed and stamped at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
Cala Conta Evening - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format beach photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Cala Conta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Her last Call (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - framed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Her last Call II (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013
80x80cm,
Edition 2/5,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Mounted and Shadow frame.
Signed on back with Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 16495.02.
Featuring Heather Megan Christie.
Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl behind the White Picket Fence
A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of a newly orphaned girl after losing her parents who lived in the Californian desert in a vintage Spartan travel-trailer.
-filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice-over monologue - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl's journal (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder)
Stefanie Schneider
By Caroline Ryder
Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat.
Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid, Wood
Lily '23 - organic cotton canvas scroll on bamboo, Limited edition of 5
Located in London, GB
Lily '23
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a scroll.
Photograph is signed and stamped at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali - CHAMPS Edition
By Jeff Koons
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist 1: Jeff Koons, American (1954 - )
Artist 2: Howard L. Bingham, American (1939 - )
Title: GOAT: A Tribute to Muhammad Ali - CHAMPS Edition
Book: Hardcover Book in Clamshell Box, signed and numbered on Frontispiece by Artists and Muhammad Ali
Koons Sculpture Title: Radial Champs
Sculptures: Blow Up Dolphin, Tire Sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Acrylic Polymer, Wood
Pan di Zucchero - extra large scale photo of Mediterranean beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Pan di Zucchero...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
TooLess 7225, 3D Nude Color Photograph. Framed Lightbox
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
TooLess 3D versions of the photographs of the TooLess series create a miss perception of the human brain. The first layer of the photo texture is formed by very small black and white...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
C Print, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Wood, Lights
Nizza - large framed photograph of summer beach scene in South of France
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
observation of a Mediterranean beach scene in Nice, France, on a hazy summer day
Nizza by Frank Schott
white wood gallery frame ( 1 inch face 2 1/2 inch deep )
27 x 41 inches (68....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigme...
Crossing Bridges - contemporary and elegant, photography on wood
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a beautiful contemporary photograph of the bridge over the River Kwai in Thailand. The photograph is processed in a way that the grain of the wood eventually becomes the "canvas" and backdrop for this image. It is processed directly on birch wood using archival inks and is then sealed with a durable semi-glossy lacquer. The image shows a person with a bright halo, crossing the bridge or in the center of the bridge about to cross a metaphorical bridge. This metaphor can be translated into many beautiful messages in life.
HUGO G. URRUTIA + MK SEMOS
Urrutia is an interdisciplinary artist, interested in the cross-pollination between art and architecture. A graduate and active member of the Architectural Association in the United Kingdom, Urrutia’s work creates a distinct spatiality located at the interstice of art and architecture. His work explores and uses the technology for design and fabrication, with a sensitive and conscious reminder of the creativity of human endeavor.
Urrutia graduated from the Architectural Association in 2013, earning a Master of Architecture in the Design & Make programme. In 2000, he graduated from Texas Tech University, with a Bachelor of Architecture and Design and received the 2000 Outstanding Thesis Award. In 2004, he founded Decorazon Gallery in Dallas’ historic Bishop Arts District where he directed, curated and exhibited numerous art/architectural exhibitions for national and international artists.
His personal artwork has been exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Thailand, Colombia, and Hong Kong. His participation in art and architectural competitions and public projects include; the AIA Cincinnati, where he received the Design Award for the 2000 National Urban Poetry I competition and the 2005 ARQUINE - International Architecture Competition in Mexico City. His art installations – The Mexican Tsunami, and Making a Killing – have both been featured at the Art Santa Fe 2010 Contemporary Art Fair, curated by Charlotte Jackson...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Ink
Carcavelos Pier Paddle (framed) - large scale photograph of summer beach scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of a summer beach scene along Portugal's Atlantic coast by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Carcavelos Pier Paddle (2016)
61.25” x 81.68” / 155.60 cm x 207.46 cm
limited edition of 6 + 2AP (signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity)
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white lacquered gallery frame
Each limited edition original Massimo Vitali photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
Disclaimer of authenticity:
although it is possible to acquire (small size) single page offset prints from the book "A Portfolio of Landscapes and Figures" (published by Steidl) in the secondary market, the artist studio strongly dissuades collectors from purchasing these single page prints outside of the context and authenticity of the complete portfolio.
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path.
Vitali worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, he would gain recognition for his highly detailed, epic-scale panoramas — sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. Vitali’s iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large-format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of the recreational habitats of modern civilization.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
'PienoVuoto'
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2020
'Human Constellations'
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
2019
Massimo Vitali: Short Stories'
Mazzoleni, London
2018
'Coastal Colonies'
Spiral, Tokyo
2017
‘Disturbed Coastal Systems’
Benrubi Gallery (New York, USA)
2016
‘Landscapes with Figures’
Guido & Schoen Arte Contemponania (Genoa, Italy)
2016
‘Massimo Vitali’
Crown Gallery (Knokke-Zoute, Belgium)
2016
‘Massimo Vitali’
Ronchini Gallery (London, UK)
2015
‘New Prints’
Hilger Next (Vienna, Austria)
2014
‘Massimo Vitali’
Studio La Citta (Verona, Italy)
2014
‘Into The White’
Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation (Porza, Switzerland)
2014
‘Sempre più pallide. Towards Achrome’
Palazzo Tadea (Spilimbergo, Italy)
2013
‘Between Normalities’
Bonni Benrubi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Coney Es (artist framed) - large format photograph of iconic New York beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure
Coney Es...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Porto Miggiano - large scale photograph of Mediterranean beach (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
rare vertical work featuring iconic summer beach scene in Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure
Porto Miggiano...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Dagoberto by James Sparshatt. Black and white portrait of an old Cuban musician
Located in Coltishall, GB
Black and white portrait of a Cuban musician called Dagoberto. Dagoberto began playing his guitar in the Casa de la Trova in Holguin, Cuba, in 1944. Sixty years later in 2004 I had ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Wood
Ponta dos Mosteiros Tuffo (framed) - large scale photo of black Azores beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Azores beach by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Treasure II (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid, framed, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Treasure II (Stage of Consciousness) 29 Palms, CA, 2007,
75x93cm, Edition 3/5.
Analog C-Print printed on Fuji Archive Paper, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid.
Sign...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
The Skelligs by Moonlight by James Sparshatt. 34 x 24" Framed Archival Print
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Skellig Islands are off the coast of Kerry in Ireland. Once the home of reclusive monks they have gained notoriety recently as a retreat for Luke Skywalker… Lit by moon light reflected off the Atlantic Ocean swell they portray a calm at odds with the often stormy seas that batter them..
James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes have an ethereal beauty. They are moments when the natural form of topography is given magic by the transient touch of the elements.
The work is also available as a smaller archival giclee print and as a collectors edition Palladium Platinum print.
Archival print on 300gsm Hahnemuhle rag
Edition of 15
Dark wood frame with UV clarity glass
Framed size 96cm x 72cm (38″ x 28.5″)
Signed by the artist
Certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Country: County Kerry...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Glass, Wood
King's Best - Neck, Stallion detail / abstract horse portrait
Located in London, GB
King's Best, ‘Neck’, 2001 by John Reardon
Edition of 7
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Museum AR Glass
This piece is part of : (after) Whist...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photogra...
James Sparshatt Aodh’s Domain Large Archival Print with Wooden Frame, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Aodh is a god of the underworld and prince of the Daoine Sidhe in Irish mythology. The crashing waves in this cave made its legend as a gateway to the realm of the Gods entirely u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Wood
James Sparshatt Stormy Waters Large Archival Print with Wooden Frame, 2011
Located in Coltishall, GB
Rolling waves crashing against the breakwater in St Monan’s calmed by a long exposure after dark.
James Sparshatt’s black and white landscapes have an ethereal beauty. They are mom...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Wood
Wilhold Up the Mirror Photograph and Mixed Media Assemblage Wall Hanging Artwork
Located in Surfside, FL
Dennis Hopper, (American, 1936-2010)
Mixed media sculpture
"Outmolding Older Concepts (Wilhold Up the Mirror)", 1961, photo and assemblage,
Ace gallery and Easy Rider Production labels verso 27"h x 40"w x 5"d.
There is broken mirror glued into the wooden collage box with the ceramic head that is attached to the front. I assume that is how it was made.
Provenance: Estate of Pentti Kouri, NYC; Ace Gallery, Los Angeles; Exhibited MOCA, Los Angeles, 2010
From a 1997 interview with Hopper where he references this piece "Right now it's very intense. I had a show that travelled Germany, about 15 different museums. Sunday we go to Denmark; I'm showing the early assemblage I did in 1961 which was the signal for conceptual art. I'm just two days there, then I'm going to Venice to meet Julian Schnabel - Count Volpe's given us a place to paint in Giudecca. Then I'm going to Documenta in Germany to hang another show, then I go back to LA on the 21st and start a film on the 23rd."
Notes/Literature: Dr. Pentti Kouri(1949-2009) was a Finnish economist and venture capitalist with partner George Soros. He built his prestigious art collection with the goal of opening a private art foundation focused on his interests in Minimalism, Arte Povera, Conceptual and Text-based art. He was a member of the Board of Trustees of Dia Art Foundation, and on the boards of Tate, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. In addition, a portion of his collection forms the core of the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art in Helsinki, Finland
Hopper made his film debut alongside James Dean in 1955's Rebel Without a Cause. Both lost souls from dysfunctional households, they gravitated to each other, smoked dope and took joy rides. When Dean died, Hopper saw himself as the natural inheritor of his rebellious mantle and, revelling in his nickname of "Dennis the Menace", gave it to Hollywood with both barrels; so they dropped him. Dennis didn't make another Hollywood movie for seven years.
Frustrated by the deliberate stifling of his film career, Dennis turned to art and photography for creative stimulus, beginning with abstract subjects such as landscapes. His cutting-edge conceptual art became established round the world, with exhibitions in major cities. At home in the dining room stood one particularly interesting work, a white plastic box, eight feet long, that had an aluminium shaft sticking out of it, and two very large balls. It was called The Perpetual Erection Machine. Before Tracy Emin and Damien Hirst, there was Dennis.
In 1961, Hopper took part in an international photography competition in Australia with a contribution of five abstract photos, which he called Pieces. He won first place.
Soon after, Hopper married Hayward, daughter of the film producer Leland Hayward, whose credits include The Sound of Music and South Pacific. The wedding party of Hopper and Hayward was held in August at the apartment of actress Jane Fonda, a childhood friend of Hayward, who introduced Hopper to her younger brother Peter Fonda. Their daughter Marin was born in 1961, and they moved to Bel Air, California. Soon afterward the famous Bel Air fire destroyed their home, including approximately three-hundred Abstract Expressionist works and hundreds of pages of poetry that Hopper had begun in the mid-1950s. Hopper and his actor friends Dean Stockwell and Russ Tamblyn were close to many artists in California, especially assemblage artists Edward Kienholz...
Category
1960s Conceptual Wood Photography
Materials
Ceramic, Wood, Mixed Media
LA Fingers Signed Spray Can Estevan Oriol Los Angeles BTS Street Photography Art
Located in Draper, UT
Estevan was born in 1966 in United States. At present he is situated in Los Angeles, California the city of the stars. His work has been highlighted in a large number of the top magazines and has additionally captured a portion of the top famous people too. He has likewise coordinated many music recordings also. He is the child of Eriberto Oriol who was additionally a well known picture taker.
The universally eminent picture taker, music executive and urban way of life business visionary started his vocation as a hip-jump club bouncer and later turned a visit director for Cypress Hill and House of Pain which are the notable rap bunches in Los Angeles. He was talented an old camera...
Category
2010s Street Art Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
End of Day (stained glass, mosaic, metal print, wood frame)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
17.5x13.5x1
Stained Glass, Metal Print, Wood Frame
Mixed Media Art – Fine Art Photography Meets Fine Craft Mosaic-Stained Glass Frame
My award-winning Photozaics blend the textures ...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
Supreme Nan Goldin skateboard deck (Nan as a Dominatrix)
By Nan Goldin
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Nan Goldin Supreme Skateboard Deck: 'Nan as a Dominatrix, Cambridge MA' (1978/2018):
Published in 2018 by Supreme New York
Features Nan Goldin printed signature on verso
From a sold...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Feminist Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Offset
Coney Es (artist framed) - large format photograph of iconic New York beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the summer rites and rituals of modern leisure
Coney Es...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper
Summer Sea - Unique Abstract Colour Print, Custom Framed
Located in London, GB
“Colour gives me a new way of working - in complete darkness. It seems contradictory that to produce colour you need to work in the dark. You blindly feel your way around the paper w...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Wood Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Archival Paper, C Print, Color
JR MIGRANTS, WALKING NEW YORK CITY Limited edition skate set Street Art Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
JR - MIGRANTS, WALKING NEW YORK CITY. NEW YORK, USA (2015)
Date of creation: 2019
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 250
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: I...
Category
2010s Modern Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
Gateway to Racepoint Beach(mosaic stained galss wooden frame around metal print)
Located in Agoura Hills, CA
Stained Glass, Metal Print, Wood Frame
Mixed Media Art – Fine Art Photography Meets Fine Craft Mosaic-Stained Glass Frame
My award-winning Photozaics blend the textures of Van Gogh...
Category
2010s Wood Photography
Materials
Metal
Myvatn Nature Baths (framed) - large scale photograph of Iceland hot springs
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of iconic Icelandic hot springs by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Myvatn Nature Baths (2016)
61.25” x 81” / 156 cm x 206 cm
signed, titled and dated verso
edition of 6 + 2AP
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white gallery frame
Each limited edition original photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief, that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality, led to a change in his career path. He worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, Vitali’s large scale works would become recognizable for his highly detailed sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure.
His iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of humanity’s coastal habitats in the bright light of summer.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and the just published Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
'PienoVuoto'
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2021
'No Country For Old Men...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Malbacco Desiata - large format photograph of iconic Italian summer moment
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of Malbacco Desiata, a secret swim hole in Tuscany, by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003) Limited Skate Modern Photography
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Cindy Sherman - UNTITLED #414 (CLOWNS. 2003)
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Digital print on Canadian maple wood
Edition: 50
Size: 80 x 20 cm (each skate)
Condition: In mint conditio...
Category
2010s Modern Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Maple, Screen
Rosignano Llama - large scale Mediterranean beach scene in Italy (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format original photograph of the iconic Mediterranean white beaches of Rosignano in Tuscany by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of beach rites and rituals of modern leisure
From Massimo Vitali's body of works captured along Italy's (almost deserted) beaches in the pandemic summer of 2020
Spiagge Bianche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Arch...
Waiting for Brasil by James Sparshatt. Archival Print with Wooden Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
The Atlantic Ocean stretching out from Dingle. In Irish folklore Brasil was believed to be a phantom island lost in mists that appeared once every seven years but could never be reac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Rag Paper, Wood
Against the Current by Monica Denevan - Gelatin Print with Wood Frame
Located in Coltishall, GB
Against the Current by Monica Denevan - Gelatin Print with Wood Frame
Monica Denevan studied photography at San Francisco State University. She has travelled extensively in Burma ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Paper, Silver Gelatin, Glass, Wood
Signed Daido Moriyama skate decks: set of 2 works ( Daido Moriyama photography)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Hand-signed Daido Moriyama Skateboard decks: set of 2 individual works:
These works originated as a result of the collaboration between ...
Category
1970s Pop Art Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Lithograph, Offset
TooLess 5680, 3D Nude. Limited edition color photograph. Framed Lightbox
By Koray Erkaya
Located in Miami Beach, FL
TooLess 3D versions of the photographs of the TooLess series create a miss perception of the human brain. The first layer of the photo texture is formed by very small black and white...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, C Print, Archival Pigment, Wood
Dear One Threads A Cocoon - Unique Hand-coloured Print in Walnut frame
Located in London, GB
Hand-coloured portrait of a human larvae bursting out of their cocoon, immobilised in marble.
Representative of a safe and isolating space, the cocoon is both a cage and a shelter. This tale is a
study of transformation, of breaking apart and coming back together as the larvae emerges from
the silken threads.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
During the beginning of the 'Museum Age' in the 18th century , writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe discussed mythical sculpture...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Wood Photography
Materials
Cotton, Walnut, Paint, Crayon, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Archival Pa...
Santa Cesarea diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photography diptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Santa Ces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
"Persephone" contemporary and elegant, mixed media photography on wood, hi-gloss
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a beautiful contemporary photograph of a Greek sculpture. The photograph is processed in a way that the grain of the wood eventually becomes the "canvas" and backdrop for this image. It is processed directly on Baltic birch wood using archival inks and is then sealed with a durable Hi-gloss lacquer.
HUGO G. URRUTIA + MK SEMOS
Urrutia is an interdisciplinary artist, interested in the cross-pollination between art and architecture. A graduate and active member of the Architectural Association in the United Kingdom, Urrutia’s work creates a distinct spatiality located at the interstice of art and architecture. His work explores and uses the technology for design and fabrication, with a sensitive and conscious reminder of the creativity of human endeavor.
Urrutia graduated from the Architectural Association in 2013, earning a Master of Architecture in the Design & Make programme. In 2000, he graduated from Texas Tech University, with a Bachelor of Architecture and Design and received the 2000 Outstanding Thesis Award. In 2004, he founded Decorazon Gallery in Dallas’ historic Bishop Arts District where he directed, curated and exhibited numerous art/architectural exhibitions for national and international artists.
His personal artwork has been exhibited in the United States, United Kingdom, Thailand, Colombia, and Hong Kong. His participation in art and architectural competitions and public projects include; the AIA Cincinnati, where he received the Design Award for the 2000 National Urban Poetry I competition and the 2005 ARQUINE - International Architecture Competition in Mexico City. His art installations – The Mexican Tsunami, and Making a Killing – have both been featured at the Art Santa Fe 2010 Contemporary Art Fair, curated by Charlotte Jackson...
Category
2010s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Lacquer, Ink
'Peony no.2' cotton canvas scroll, floral photography, Limited edition 3 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Peony no.2' 2023
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a scroll.
Photograph is signed and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas
'Lily in Charcoal' abstract expressionism photography, limited edition 3 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Lily in Charcoal' 2023
From raw energy to sublime. 'Lily in Charcoal' is an expression piece combining an abstract charcoal drawing with a live lily...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas
Myvatn Nature Baths (framed) - large scale photograph of Iceland hot springs
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photograph of iconic Icelandic hot springs by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Myvatn Nature Baths (2016)
61.25” x 81” / 156 cm x 206 cm
signed, titled and dated verso
edition of 6 + 2AP
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white gallery frame
Each limited edition original photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief, that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality, led to a change in his career path. He worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, Vitali’s large scale works would become recognizable for his highly detailed sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure.
His iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of humanity’s coastal habitats in the bright light of summer.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and the just published Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
'PienoVuoto'
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2021
'No Country For Old Men...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
Santa Cesarea diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (artist framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photography diptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Santa Ces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Wood, Archival Paper
Porto Miggiano (framed) - large scale photograph of Italian Mediterranean beach
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of iconic summer beach scene in Southern Italy's Puglia by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper,...
Lampedusa (framed) - large scale photograph of Mediterranean summer beach scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Large format photograph of a summer beach scene on the Mediterranean island of Lampedusa, from an earlier body of works (2012) by iconic Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and rituals of modern leisure
Lampedusa (2012)
61.25” x 81.7” / 156 cm x 207,5 cm
limited edition of 6 + 2AP (signed, titled and dated on certificate of authenticity)
last available edition: AP1
original archival photography print with diasec (acrylic glass) face mount in contemporary white lacquered gallery frame
Each limited edition original Massimo Vitali photograph is printed in Italy under artist supervision in strictly limited edition (6 + 2AP) , signed/titled/dated upon final inspection and expertly framed at renowned European art framing facility
Disclaimer of authenticity:
although it is possible to acquire (small size) single page offset prints from the book "A Portfolio of Landscapes and Figures" (published by Steidl) in the secondary market, the artist studio strongly dissuades collectors from purchasing these single page prints outside of the context and authenticity of the complete portfolio.
About the artist:
Massimo Vitali was born in Como, Italy, in 1944.
He studied photography at the London College of Printing, in the 1970s initially working as a photojournalist, but at the beginning of the 80s a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path.
Vitali worked in cinematography for film and television before beginning a fine art practice in 1995.
Over the next two decades, he would gain recognition for his highly detailed, epic-scale panoramas — sociopolitical observations of the natural habitat of humankind at leisure. Vitali’s iconic series of beach panoramas, captured from a distance with an elevated large-format camera platform, began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy.
Drawing inspiration from Renaissance and Old Flemish masters, in which the central space is fully exploited and the urban or natural landscape becomes the background, Vitali’s photographs grasp the viewer by capturing highly detailed observances of the recreational habitats of modern civilization.
Vitali’s work has been collected in six monographs: Beach and Disco, Natural Habitats, Landscapes With Figures, Swimming Pools, Short Stories and Entering A New World.
Additionally, his work is represented in the world’s major museums, including the Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver, the Fond National Art Contemporaine in Paris, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris, the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the Museo Luigi Pecci in Prato.
Massimo Vitali lives and works in Lucca (Italy) and in Berlin (Germany).
__________________________
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 94/22
Zander Galerie, Cologne
2024 Photolux Festival - Il bel paese?
Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy
2023 La Grande Oasi - The way we live, now
OCA, Oasy Contemporary Art, Pistoia
2023
Standing Still
Cortona On The Move, Arezzo, Italy
2022
Massimo Vitali PhotoESPANA
Biblioteca Central Cantabria, Santander
2022
Endless Summer
Edwin Hook Gallery, New York
2022
Massimo Vitali: Leporello 2020
Melbourne
2022
Ti ho visto
Mazzoleni Gallery, Turin
2021
PienoVuoto
Forte di Belvedere, Florence
2021
No Country For Old Men
Visionarea Art Space, Rome
2020
'Human Constellations'
Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
2019
Massimo Vitali: Short Stories'
Mazzoleni, London
2018
'Coastal Colonies'
Spiral, Tokyo
2017
‘Disturbed Coastal Systems’
Benrubi Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper
De Zwarte Engel The Black Angel Photography on Dibond Still Life in Plastic
Located in Utrecht, NL
De Zwarte Engel The Black Angel Photography on Dibond Still Life in PlasticDe Zwarte Engel The Black Angel Photography on Dibond Still Life in Plastic
Richard Kuiper (the Netherlands 1967)
To 17th century merchants, the nouveaux riches of the Dutch Golden Age, collecting luxury items and utensils to show off their wealth and lifestyle was a competition. They revelled in exotic animals and shells from the East Indies, priceless glassware from Venice, porcelain from China, silver and gold from Antwerp.
To immortalise their high standard of living they commissioned famous Dutch still life painters, including Pieter Claesz, Floris van Dijck, Frans Snyders...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Film
D. and Felix - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
D. and Felix (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
Edition of 2/30.
Image size 16 x 21.6 inch,
External dimensions: 17.7 x 23.3 inch.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Cleansing A Shrike/ Blackbird's Bath - Hand coloured Print in Walnut frame
Located in London, GB
Hand-coloured portrait of a bird-like spirit, immobilised in marble, cleansing in a spring-time bath. A character formed from Naiads (a Greek nymph of flowing water), and exploring the idea of a ritualistic cleansing to wash away sombre deeds.
Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls).
During the beginning of the 'Museum Age' in the 18th century , writer Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe discussed mythical sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Victorian Wood Photography
Materials
Walnut, Paint, Ink, Spray Paint, Watercolor, Archival Paper, Photographi...
De Kikker The Frog Photo on Dibond Framed Still Life in Plastic Series Flowers
Located in Utrecht, NL
De Kikker The Frog Photo on Dibond Framed Still Life in Plastic Series Flowers
Richard Kuiper (the Netherlands, 1967)
To 17th century merchants, the nouveaux riches of the Dutch Golden Age, collecting luxury items and utensils to show off their wealth and lifestyle was a competition. They revelled in exotic animals and shells from the East Indies, priceless glassware from Venice, porcelain from China, silver and gold from Antwerp.
To immortalise their high standard of living they commissioned famous Dutch still life painters, including Pieter Claesz, Floris van Dijck, Frans Snyders...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Glass, Wood, Photographic Paper
WOMEN OF THE IDF Large color Photograph LITAL
Located in Surfside, FL
"Women of the IDF" Large Exhibition color Photograph
30 x 40 inches, mounted on masonite and laminated.
Edition of 4 + 2 artists proof. minor dings and bumps to edges Born in Tehran, Iran, Ashkan Sahihi moved with his family to West Germany at the age of seven. Although he began taking photographs as a teenager, Sahihi traces the beginning of his professional trajectory to New York in 1987, a thriving “pop culture metropolis” where he could do the kind of photography work that he wanted to do, exploring the underbelly of the society around him. Taking assignments from German publications such as the Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazine, Der Spiegel, Dummy and GEO, he photographed subjects like prisoners on death row, players in the hip-hop scene, and the downtown art scene of New York. Neither black nor white, an insider among outsiders, he found himself able to navigate spaces and dynamics that others might have had difficulty entering. He considered this both a privilege and an obligation – to visit these places and tell these stories. His success led to commissions from American publications as well, including the New York Times Magazine, the New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and Vogue.
Put off by the limitations of photojournalism (the expectation that he would illustrate the writer’s perspective rather than author a narrative of his own), Sahihi began to embark on independent, highly compact conceptual series. His main goal in these series has been to drive forward public discourse on topics he believes have not provoked enough or the right kind of discussion: drugs, gender in the media, women in the military, etc. His portraits draw on a familiar visual language – often seated subjects before a neutral backdrop – but push the viewer to feel and think about entirely new things. Although he constantly challenges the comfort level of both the viewer and the subject, Sahihi never removes himself from the line of fire; all of his work requires the artist to immerse himself in uncomfortable situations and challenge his own emotional fortitude.
Photographic Series
In the “Face Series”, latex-gloved hands manipulate the subjects’ features, stretching, pushing, squeezing, pinching at the whim of external direction – from the artist? The customer? The public? The “Hypnosis Series” comprises 8 portraits of hypnotized subjects each experiencing a single emotion, e.g. helplessness, withholding/anger, or regret. In a society that rewards the suppression of such naked emotion, the purity of these depictions is arresting.
In 2006, Sahihi photographed himself in the homes and with the families of six ex-girlfriends and one ex-wife, imposing himself more or less awkwardly on the constellations that emerged after he had exited their lives (“Exes Series”).
For Sahihi’s most well-known work, the “Drug Series,” he convinced 11 non–drug users to consume a particular drug, then took their portraits over the course of their trips. The series was born out of Sahihi’s frustration with the hypocrisy of the political conversation about drugs in the United States. “By attempting to present an objective image of drug use, the artist addresses the cultural politics that allow our society to simultaneously glamorize the ‘drug look’ in fashion magazines and the entertainment industry and meanwhile turn a blind eye to the complicated, and vast, problem of drug abuse.” Sahihi has exhibited this series at MoMA PS1 New York in 2001, in Dresden in 2008, and alongside his installation “100 Million in Ready Cash."
Sahihi’s dense explorations through small photographic series include “Women of the IDF," portraits of female Israeli soldiers...
Category
Early 2000s Wood Photography
Materials
Masonite
Singspiel, Running Stallion, Champion Equine Black and White Photograph
Located in London, GB
Singspiel, Stallion Portrait 2001 by John Reardon
76 x 51 cm
Edition of 5 only
Silver Gelatin Print, Mounted on Aluminium, Custom framed, UV protective Mu...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, G...
D. and Felix - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
D. and Felix (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997
Edition of 2/30.
Image size 16 x 21.6 inch,
External dimensions: 17.7 x 23.3 inch.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Mounted...
Category
1990s Contemporary Wood Photography
Materials
Wood, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Polaroid
Coupled Poppies - organic cotton canvas scroll on bamboo, limited edition 2 of 5
Located in London, GB
'Coupled Poppies' 2023
97×120 cm printed on organic cotton canvas, limited edition of 5 + 1AP
Canvas fixed on bamboo fixtures, to be and hanged as a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Wood Photography
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Organic Material, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Archival Pigment
Dark Flora: Fly Argaric - mounted print and framed in oak
Located in London, GB
Inspired by Victorian era taxidermy dioramas, 'Dark Flora' is a series of photographs using wild plants and flowers in a curated yet naturalistic arrangement. The plants are foraged ...
Category
2010s Victorian Wood Photography
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Glass, Oak
Wood photography for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Wood photography available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add photography created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, pink and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Miguel Vallinas, Massimo Vitali, James Sparshatt, and Jason Engelund. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Wood photography, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available
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