Gianluca Balocco

Even though western culture is pervaded by millions of images, I believe photography (still very young) hasn't yet exhausted its expressive and cultural potential. Photography, like thought, has a neutral dimension and as such manifests itself only when it meets reality. This medium, like our eyes,…

In the early 1980's I studied photographic techniques and based my artistic research around this medium. In those years I considered photography as a simple means to attain a painterly result. The "photo traces", for example, are photographic images transformed into pictorial and material compositio…