Confrontations #5
Colangelo's Confrontation Series is a frank portrayal of the troubles of family life, images rippling with dramatic tension like stills from a post–war Italian realist film. His great skill as a portraitist is evident in Brigit's View, which not only captures the questioning eyes and restless at–homeness of its subject, but becomes an eloquent record of a moment, in the moody tranquillity of the night sky and the city lights.
Renato Colangelo's frame of reference is the family photo album as a repository of personal and collective memory. He is interested in 'exploring my relationship to my family's sentimental past identity', and in the ways Italo–Australians 'are participating in a continuous tradition almost oblivious to the fact that their traditional culture has been modernised and is all but gone'.
If the essence of photography is always to show us the past, this nostalgia is reinforced in Colangelo's work, since he shows us a way of life overtaken by history. There is a 'fifties' feel to many of Colangelo's images, most obviously because his subject matter is often suburban interiors that have remained virtually unchanged since the post–war wave of Italian migration. But this effect also comes, I think, from his studied use of a 1950's camera and cumbersome hand–held flash. In some images the photographer even makes himself visible in the margins of the frame, an outstretched hand casting light on the dramatic mise en scÃne. These hand–printed black and white images evoke not just a way of life, but a mode of seeing, as characteristic of its era as the washed–out colour snapshots of the seventies, or the home videos of the nineties.
— written by Russell Smith from his Samstag catalogue essay, Making The Makers
Materials
All images are hand printed onto Fibre based Gloss paper (has a satin Finish) - Also available on Request is Matt paper & Hahnemuhle Art 300 (has an egg shell finish)
Dimensions
On all Square format prints | Print Size on Paper including 5mm black boarder all around with white paper rebate of 10mm all around. More white rebate can be arranged on request.
Details
All Images are hand printed to order & will be shipped within 2 weeks of purchase: Framed images will be shipped within 2-4 weeks.
Frames are made to order & will be supplied with non reflective glass & mounted set back from glass in a timber frame stained black. ( other colours or variation available only on request)
Also available via Request | Images are mounted directly onto Dibond (No frame) Artist advices this for works printed onto Matt paper & Hahnemuhle Art 300
Please Note
The ratio of images are square format.
Sizes for postage are for framed works.
Cost for postage of unframed works remain the same as framed works.
Colangelo's Confrontation Series is a frank portrayal of the troubles of family life, images rippling with dramatic tension like stills from a post–war Italian realist film. His great skill as a portraitist is evident in Brigit's View, which not only captures the questioning eyes and restless at–homeness of its subject, but becomes an eloquent record of a moment, in the moody tranquillity of the night sky and the city lights.
Renato Colangelo's frame of reference is the family photo album as a repository of personal and collective memory. He is interested in 'exploring my relationship to my family's sentimental past identity', and in the ways Italo–Australians 'are participating in a continuous tradition almost oblivious to the fact that their traditional culture has been modernised and is all but gone'.
If the essence of photography is always to show us the past, this nostalgia is reinforced in Colangelo's work, since he shows us a way of life overtaken by history. There is a 'fifties' feel to many of Colangelo's images, most obviously because his subject matter is often suburban interiors that have remained virtually unchanged since the post–war wave of Italian migration. But this effect also comes, I think, from his studied use of a 1950's camera and cumbersome hand–held flash. In some images the photographer even makes himself visible in the margins of the frame, an outstretched hand casting light on the dramatic mise en scÃne. These hand–printed black and white images evoke not just a way of life, but a mode of seeing, as characteristic of its era as the washed–out colour snapshots of the seventies, or the home videos of the nineties.
— written by Russell Smith from his Samstag catalogue essay, Making The Makers
Materials
All images are hand printed onto Fibre based Gloss paper (has a satin Finish) - Also available on Request is Matt paper & Hahnemuhle Art 300 (has an egg shell finish)
Dimensions
On all Square format prints | Print Size on Paper including 5mm black boarder all around with white paper rebate of 10mm all around. More white rebate can be arranged on request.
Details
All Images are hand printed to order & will be shipped within 2 weeks of purchase: Framed images will be shipped within 2-4 weeks.
Frames are made to order & will be supplied with non reflective glass & mounted set back from glass in a timber frame stained black. ( other colours or variation available only on request)
Also available via Request | Images are mounted directly onto Dibond (No frame) Artist advices this for works printed onto Matt paper & Hahnemuhle Art 300
Please Note
The ratio of images are square format.
Sizes for postage are for framed works.
Cost for postage of unframed works remain the same as framed works.