We welcome the work by Maurizio Anzeri to @foundation! ✨
Maurizio Anzeri is an Italian artist known for his unique and thought-provoking works of art.
He was born in Sardinia, Italy, in 1970 and began his career as an artist in the 1990s. Anzeri's work is primarily focused on embroidery, photography, and sculpture.
One of Anzeri's most recognizable and celebrated series of works is his "embroidered portraits." These are photographs of people that have been embroidered with thread, creating a unique and striking visual effect.
The embroidery adds a layer of texture and depth to the photographs and a sense of nostalgia and memory.
Anzeri's embroidered portraits have been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide and are widely praised for their originality and emotional impact.
In addition to his embroidered portraits, Anzeri has created several sculptures incorporating found objects and materials. These sculptures are often thought-provoking and evocative and explore themes such as memory, identity, and the passage of time.
Anzeri's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, including the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Venice Biennale.
🔗 If you would like to collect one of his embroidered pieces, check out his collection on @foundation. 🪡
Every Tuesday and Thursday we share work we love from the broader photography community.
🧵 Today, we’re exploring the work of the photographer who brought color to street photography: Harry Gruyaert
Harry Gruyaert is a Belgian photographer known for his colorful and dynamic images. He was born in 1942 and began his career in the 1960s as a photojournalist. However, he quickly realized that his true passion was in capturing the world around him in a more artistic way.
Gruyaert's photography are distinguished by their use of color, which he used to create a sense of movement and energy in his works.
We're used to seeing a picture as a finished product. But what if a photo is only the first step in a different creative process? Is it still a photograph?
🧵A thread of threads! Let's dive into Mauricio Anzeri's unique process 🪡
Anzeri's embroidered portraits create something new and surprising by applying an old-fashioned craft to old-fashioned photographs found in flea markets, pushing the boundaries of photography.
The use of thread in the photographs adds a new dimension to the image, making it more complex and multi-layered. Embroidery is often a delicate and precise craft and is used by Anzeri to inject sentimentality and new interpretations into his source material.
The collection "Frontera" is a photographic project by the Mexican photographer Pablo López Luz. (@iampablolopez)
It examines the concept of the border through the lens of landscape and humanity's relationship with it.
The series comprises aerial photographs documenting the border as it runs through different states, showcasing the border's architecture and how it interrupts the seemingly homogeneous terrain.
The photographs have been described as evoking line drawings of surfaces dissected by a single stroke.
On our weekly open talk, we talked on Photographers of the Digital - A conversation around current perceptions of the real and its formal outputs in photography and digital art.
2023 is shaping up to be the year that AI disrupts many norms in our daily lives.
Of course, we’re quite interested in what AI will mean for the past, present, and future of photography.
🧵So what are the pressing questions that we should be seeking answers to?
First and foremost: How do artists fight the stigma that AI-generated art is easy to make?
How do we judge the merit of AI-generated work that requires little skill to produce, and what standards will we use to judge great AI art from the ordinary?