The Image, the Archive, the Infinite

Caro Elio, They say that a camera obscura turns the world upside down in order to reveal its truth. When I met you on that early March morning in 2006 on Istiklal Street, my own world was turned upside down. I was a seventeen-year-old boy with a 1976 Canon and a heart full of unformedContinueContinue reading “The Image, the Archive, the Infinite”

Curriculum Vitae

http://www.eliomontanari.comeliomontanari44@gmail.com A – Profile Elio Montanari was born in Ravenna, 4 March 1944 Freed from the weight of two thousand and five hundred years of history of Beauty,  over the last thirty five years, as a photographer, he devoted his work to following artists at work so as to capture operations of the formal processContinueContinue reading “Curriculum Vitae”

REMEMBER: A MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS WITH CAMERA OBSCURA

https://youtu.be/J_eTNHrnZQk?si=SOK7CsC9mDm2cE_K Explore the artistic odyssey of Elio Montanari, an architect and photographer with a rich 50-year history of traversing 55 countries. His archive is a captivating chronicle of architectural textures and the artists he encountered during their performances, exhibitions, and creative processes. From the bustling streets of Berlin to the prestigious “Documenta” in Kassel, Montanari’sContinueContinue reading “REMEMBER: A MILLION PHOTOGRAPHS WITH CAMERA OBSCURA”