Lacuna e Equilibrio

• Photographer
  Marco Maria Zanin, Italy

In its arbitrary disorganization, São Paolo, Brazil is a city that
rebuilds itself three times every hundred years. In an expression
of modern society’s pathological relationship with time, buildings
are constantly demolished to make room for others with features
more suited to generating the greatest profit, themselves destined
to becoming ruins in a few decades.
The tons of debris from this dismantling process are first
accumulated in caçambas, big metal containers placed in the
street opposite the city’s building sites, and then taken away on a
dubious journey.
Taking as my guide Giorgio Morandi, who spent a lifetime painting
humble, everyday objects and managing to elevate them to a
timeless, metaphysical dimension, I carefully chose the debris of
the demolished city, trying to place it in a neutral space and
observing whether other levels of interpretation were possible
outside the dynamics that defined its destiny.

Marco Maria Zanin was born in Padua in October 1983, and since he was a child, when he overcame a serious heart defect, he has experimented that intimate and deep relationship with life, which he would later express through his art.
Eclectic humanist, he obtained degrees in both Philosophy and Political Science, dedicating a great deal of his time to an tireless exploration of the human universe, studying various cultures, the practise and in-depth analysis of holistic disciplines, and numerous voyages to various parts of the world, always in contact with nature, the individual and his/her soul.
Photography is a privileged tool when relating with the world. Above all it becomes a path to internal investigation and self knowledge, and then, according to the vocation of the most intimate of the arts, a tool for human and social transformation.
A photographer who may be defined poet, who, through his lens, his personal use of colour and this meticulous attention to detail in the printing phases, translates onto paper the language of a great Soul, which envelops and sweetly accompanies the observer to embrace its universal message.

Awards FAAP Artist Residency, Sao Paulo, April 2013
Selection Codice MIA, Milan, March 2013
Best Portfolio of Arte Fiera Bologna, Bologna, February 2013