I'm in search of a new way to observe and reinterpret the natural
landscapes of the Earth.
This monkey's portrait It's a real landscape of Namibia seen from
above.
Exploring the world through satellite maps, Max Serradifalco pioneer of "Web Photography" has traveled virtually around the planet in search of a new way to observe and re-interpret the natural beauty of the Earth. Through his images, we experience a sort of telepresence, which Lev Manovich defines as the means “not of creating a new object, but of approaching it, of forming relationships, of observing what happens in a faraway place…”. Faraway places which Max Serradifalco – although he had observed them by the computer and photographed them through the satellite - decided not to defile by using further digital means. He has kept the integrity of these places in their purity and magnificent uniqueness. Max’s work has therefore a great and revolutionary aesthetic impact, an art that breaks down all boundaries of space and time. So, what the anarch writer Ernst Jünger emphasised on ‘prodigy' and ‘distance’ looks out, as if by enchantment, on Max Serradifalco’s post-computer-era visions, in a congeries of modern, or more exactly post-modern, aerial images with a painterly enamel in which everything seems to purify itself, to annihilate itself in the essentiality of the natural object, of a geography and geology directly brought to the pupil, to the heart.
Awards IPA, 2009
IPA, 2012
MIFA, 2015
