Andrea Garuti: Notebook

Hardcover | 24.77 x 1.91 x 34.93 cm | 120 pp

Damiani | 2012 | 9788862082457

Italian photographer Andrea Garuti (b. 1965) has a passion for cityscapes, traveling around the world to capture the spirit of different cities in his light-streaked, impressionistic works. Notebook departs from his earlier books in its inclusion of notes and drawings, which, along with his photographs, create a scrapbook travelogue.

The research at the base of Notebook is pivoted on the relationship between two artistic languages: photography and painting. The main theme is architecture in an urban context, whether it be buildings, roads, city outskirts or vaster metropolitan settings. Notebook strives for a stronger synthesis between the two aforementioned languages and makes use of transfer printing techniques on plaster panels, recycled paper and other materials.

The blending of painted colour with photographs forces the images to produce new and unexpected spaces. Analysing architecture through this cross-breeding method has given Andrea Garuti, the possibility of re-interpreting the City as a subject, freeing it from the imposing precision of the camera lens.