Carlo Borlenghi, a (large) photographer in Paris
Carlo Borlenghi in Paris. Thursday, March 29 at 18.30 Arrondisment XVI inaugurated at the Mairie of Paris’ Carlo Borlenghi Paris 2012 “, the first show of the fantastic photographer of the sea. Near http://www.hotel-economici-parigi.it/
The exhibition brings together for the first time the best images taken during his thirty years career. Over seventy photographs guide the visitor through a journey where the original and striking sails, hull and the foam of the waves take on new and unexpected forms, become shadows egeometrie and redefine the world they represent. The silhouette of a man who appears like a thought behind a colored sail, a spinnaker that emerges from the shadows blown by the wind, Luna Rossa, which crosses the Amerigo Vespucci in the seas around New Zealand, the hull of Alinghi airlifted from Svizzeraall’Italia: Carlo Borlenghi images tell the most vital moments of international sailing with a unique thought and a poem.
The exhibition is divided into two sections: the main hall are exhibited 17 large format photographs (120×180 cm) and two giant of 2.50 meters x 3. These striking images, characterized by extraordinary light and a very special cut. The second room contains 56 shots from 40×60 cm to immortalize the most spectacular stages of the fantastic events of the yachting and tell the players.
The exhibition, conceived by the designer Arturo Montanelli, was conceived through the reading and reinterpretation of the “sail” in a relationship marked by an architecture of light and aimed at capitalizing on the temporary facility, evoking the ephemeral nature and immediacy of the work of the sea. A temporary textile structure capable of giving substance to a double-jointed material and transient as the sails, in their relationship with the natural fundamentals, produced by Model Logic and consists of hundreds of translucent vertical panels that collect and maintain the giant of the shots, printed by the laboratory Spazio81 Milan Fine-Art Giclée on paper and mounted on B-Bond 3mm.
The exhibition will be open from March 30 to April 5, Monday to Friday from 10 to 17, up to 19 on Thursday and Saturday from 10 am to 12.30; in the Salle des Fêtes at the Mairie sixteenth arrondissement, 71 Chance Henri Martin, 75016 Paris.
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Carlo Borlenghi was the photographer of the sea and sailing world’s most well loved. Born in 1956 in Bellano on Lake Como, started his career as a photographer following the local regattas. From 1983 to photograph the America’s Cup races: he was the official photographer for the Italian countryside of Italy, the Moor of Venice and Luna Rossa and Team Alinghi of Switzerland. Since 1994, following the boats and businesses by Giovanni Soldini. He also covered several editions of the Whitbread Round the World Race and was the official photographer of the team Amer Sports during the Volvo Ocean Race 2001-2002. It ‘official photographer of national and international events of Rolex. In 1983 he was awarded the Marian Skubin for the best sports shooting published in Italy, in Paris in 1986 he won the “Grand Prix de la photo de Mer Professional organized by the Chamber of Buying and the 2007 French Grand Prix Prix de l’Image Course large au Salon Nautique de Paris “2007. Also in 2007, receives the President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano, a plaque “for his many years of intense activity for the sailing world.”
Arturo Montanelli, engineer-designer, was born in Milan in 1962. Besides teaching and consulting activities in the Department BEST delPolitecnico of Milan, is a professor in the Laboratory of Synthesis of the Final Degree in Architectural Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano. And ‘the holder of a professional firm based in Lecco. To the many accomplishments for public and private, Montanelli alongside the curiosity of a do it often leads to approach the world of art and design. Invited to the events of the last Venice Biennale of Architecture, Off Leash with the project, the prototype of a traveling museum in collaboration with Velasco Vitali, is undertaking collaborations that see more and more involved in the arts such as the many events plotted for the Salone del Mobile in Milan and other exhibitions of contemporary artists.