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Lissy Asser

1999

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70 x 100 cm
28 x 39.37 in

Year

1999

Reference

089df4f8

Technique: pigments on cotton cardboard;

Year: about 1999 100x70, 520 gr;

Work belonging to the collection dedicated to Berlin and curated by the Northeast Archives. Maurizio Galimberti is one of the most important photographers of contemporary art, who has chosen the polaroid as his favorite artistic medium. With his Polaroids Galimberti often creates artistic reportages of capitals around the world. Berlin is a complex city, which is continuously reconstructed, which adopts the becoming as a logic of life. This series is a Berlin diary of the photographer, where even the most anonymous corners of the city become cues for research and construction of images. This work represents one of the photos that testify to one of the most tragic moments in contemporary history, the mass deportation of Jews to Nazi Germany, in particular the portrait of a young girl "Lissy Asser". The work has the Archiviazione number: 8568 and is published in the catalog "Maurizio Galimberti. Berlin" on page 220. The work is signed at the bottom right and is numbered 2/5 at the bottom left.

 

1956 Como, Italy

Maurizio Galimberti was born in Como in 1956. He moved to Milan where he now lives and works.

He approached the world of analogue photography starting with the use of a Widelux rotating lens camera and then focusing his commitment, in a radical and definitive way, on Polaroid in 1983.

In 1991 he began his collaboration with Polaroid Italia, of which he became testimonial with the book "Polaroid Pro Art"; in 1995, which became a real cult object for lovers of the integral type of Polaroid film.

Named "Instant Artist", he is the creator of the "Italian Polaroid Collection"; and in 1992 he won the "Gran Prix Kodak Pubblicità Italia" award. In 2000 he presented the exhibition "I Maestri"; for Kodak Italia. He continued his research with Polaroid and re-invented the technique of "Photographic Mosaic", which was initially suitable for portraits.

The first experiment dates back to 1989 when he portrayed his son Giorgio.

His portrait of Johnny Depp for the Venice Film Festival is the cover of the September 2003 Times Magazine.

The "Mosaic"; soon became his technique for portraying faces, landscapes, architecture and cities. With balance Galimberti alternates the emotion for the composition and the search for rhythm, to a propensity towards the particular, the intimate scene to represent a single shot, a single Polaroid.


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