GIOVANNI PRESUTTI

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DEPENDENCY

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Giovanni Presutti was born in 1965 in Florence, where he lives. He graduated from the Art’E school in Florence, then attended the Master of reportage at the John Kaverdash Academy in Milan and participated in the project Reflexions Masterclass. He has exhibited his work on several occasions in Italy and abroad in galleries, museums, and public and private cultural centres, including the 2011Venice Biennale, and has won numerous major awards. He has also worked with various magazines, including “Vanity Fair”, and in 2008 he released his book Mirror for Polyorama. He is among the authors of the Photo Ltd collezionismo foto d’autore project and is part of the Synap(see) collective.

This is how Presutti presents Dependency, a personal project carried out between 2010 and 2012: “In our modern world overwhelmed by matter the only way to survive is often dependence on something outside ourselves. But running from what we hate to rush towards something we apparently love leads to worse results and often causes the permanent loss of ourselves. My goal was the search for our borderline side through a non-dramatic but paradoxical representation. I tried to convey a portrait of our society in which each of us can mirror himself, and whose irony will make us smile at first approach, but which will later make us reflect upon the actual fragility which is the distinctive trait of our age”.

Website : www.giovannipresutti.com