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Exhibition Opening - Guido Albi Marini

November 10th Through December 23rd, 2005; Visual Alchemy: Recent Photography

Miami-based Guido Albi Marini left the world of economics to greet his destiny as a self-taught photographer. His artistic goal is achieved after careful composition, painterly digital enhancement and insightful presentation. For this exhibition he has assembled works from his My Mind is Fluid, Far From Noon, Mannequin and Solid Water Between Us series. Throughout his artistic career, he has chosen to depopulate his imagery, depicting objects, not humans, foregrounding an atmosphere of isolation.

In his Mannequin series, the images were typically taken during his frequent foreign travel, sometimes shot through display window glass in stores. These statuesque ideals of beauty were selected for their faces that reflect the "character" of the mannequin, rather than their bodies that require movement to enliven them. The My Mind is Fluid series represents his visual manifestations of meditation. The images of wooden poles in water depict archetypal forms, phallic, some sheathed in metal, others mirrored, mostly solitary and stolid, moored in shifting water tinted blue or red by ambient light or color shifts.

In comparison are large images from his Solid Water Between Us series. These images of seawater churning alongside a moving boat provoke scientific and metaphorical readings of the three phases of water and the concept of sublimation. In these instants, arrested by high shutter speeds, one can sense the plasticity of water within. Far From Noon series, the operative word is spontaneity. Taken on the beach around 5:30 a.m., the work captures what Albi Marini felt were the most compelling images of the moment. After composing the image in the viewfinder and taking the shot, he enhanced the images in the digital darkroom, whitening the whites of the walls of the cabin, enhancing the red lights from the ships in the distance, lightening areas and darkening others, choreographing a digital chiaroscuro, his sense of detachment paradoxically enhancing a personalized perspective.

Guido Albi Marini's images are universal and timeless, less about the specific object, and more about the enchantment of the everyday.

Neuhoff Gallery
41 East 57th Street, 4th Floor
New York, NY 10022
Tel. 212.838.1122
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www.neuhoffgallery.com

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