The plants switch phases of beauty with other quiescent and
inconspicuous. In the winter break, we see them as dead.
The work focuses on this period of long sleep and on what plants
may be able to dream. Not dwell too much on the rationality or
scientific nature of this statement.
The plants dream of what they don’t have neither more nor less
than us. These dreams have the butterflies as leading characters;
in my view, they represent more than any other living thing
awakening, heat, sun, spring.
The butterflies are not only the actresses of the dream but even the
bearers of dreams.
And so the branch becomes caterpillar, an extension where the
butterfly takes flight, after metamorphosis. The symbol of
transformation and rebirth is also at psychic level; their
inconsistency embodies the ephemeral and the resurrection.
Paolo Vergnano è fotografo e biologo, vive e lavora nel comune di Alba.
Awards 2018 TIFA (Tokyo International Foto Awards 2017) - Menzione d'onore - Categoria: Fine Art 2018 MIFA (Moscow international foto awards) Photo Awards 2018 - belle arti - collage - Menzione d'onore 2018 11th Annual International Color Awards - Nominee - Category: Fine Art 2017 ND Award - Neutral density photography awards - Honorable Mention - Fine Art - Landscape 2017 ND Award - Neutral density photography awards - Honorable Mention - Fine Art - Conceptual 2017 (2016 - 2017) 3a edizione dei Fine Art Photography Awards - menzione d'onore concettuale (What trees dream) 2017 Rodello Arte - selezionato per il workshop residenziale 2017 ARTEAM per sug@R(T) - selezionato 2016 ND Award - Neutral density photography awards - fine art honorable mention - Other 2016 The 10th London international creative competition - shortlist 2016 PX3 - Prix de la Photographie Paris - menzione d'onore 2016 36th Annual Spring Photography Contest - finalista 2015 MIFA (Premi fotografici internazionali di Mosca) Photo Awards 2015 - menzione d'onore per le belle arti 2015 IPA int'l photography awards - Menzione d'onore - Fine Art : Collage Category 2015 MIFA (Moscow international foto awards) Photo Awards 2015 - portfolio fine art honorable mention 2015 Emisferi creativi Arts feed the planet - Mostrami Srl - premiato 2015 Fonlad - festival on line de artes digitais - selezionato 2015 (2014 - 2015) 1a edizione dei Fine Art Photography Awards - menzione d'onore concettuale (Camere) 2015 35a Primavera annuale Concorso fotografico - finalista 2015 Premio Nocivelli - selezionato Portfolio 2015 - XV concorso fotografico nazionale e V internazionale - La Gioconda - accettato per la mostra 2015 Trierenberg Super Circuit - accettato per la mostra 2015 Sony World Photography Awards (categoria Enhanced) - elogiato (top 40) 2015 Vision Collection I edizione Malamegi Lab Art Foundation - vincitore 2014 Premio Arte 2014 - finalista
