VINCENZO CASTELLA
Istanbul, 2010

Vincenzo Castella started colour photography in 1975; in 1998 he started documenting buildings, cities and urban texture to create narratives about complexity, urban layering and unseen human activity. His work is dependant on the photo cameras, objectives and negative formats and printing papers he chooses to use that impact the final impression in especially large and extra-large formats. He is interested in the concepts of distance and displacement, identity and overlaying. The three works we offer you today represent three cities: São Paulo, Rouen and Istanbul. Regarding this type of photography, Castella says: “I am interested in episodes of vision. I want to indicate the coincidence, the trajectory, a kind of a kilim where every portion of reality carries stories, where any visible part of the object becomes the subject. This has been my narrative. I connect, in a non-causal way, the similarities and dissimilarities between cities.”
The printing technique the artist uses involves a particular chromogenic type of paper which contains layers of three colours (cyan, magenta and yellow) combined with silver salts. This paper is light-sensitive, so the amount of exposure determines which colours emerge and remain strongest in each area of the image.

Istanbul, 2010

Chromogenic print

cm 20 x 25,3 (Plexiglass)