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(Re)FineArt

In my photo/artistic project "(Re)FineArt" I read the industrial reality with an interpretation that has a pictorial heart, selecting particular visual perspectives and views and contrasting lights and colors with poetic liturgy. The starting point are the places of heavy industry (oil, chemicals, steel). Of these places I give a visual interpretation without moralism, without the manner of reporters, but with a “metaphisical” or an "impressionistic"approach. I have taken these images in 2012 in the OMV Refinery of Schewchat (Austria) and in 2017 in ENI Refineries of Marghera and San Nazzaro.

Carlo D'Orta (Florence 1955). He favors the architectures, but photographing them not in a descriptive way, but to extract abstract images from architectural lines and perspectives. Since 2010 he holds personal exhibitions in museums and in galleries in the main Italian cities and foreign cities (Berlin, Frankfurt, Singapore, etc). His works are in important public and private collections collections (Bank of Italy, Italian Parliement, Stuttgart Architektenkammer, Spoleto Contemp Art Museum, Confindustria, Justice Palace in Milano, State Archive Museum in Roma, Eur spa, and others).

Awards PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris
In 2017 Honorable Mention with the series Biocities Two and Vibrations

Other Prizes

2018
Satura International Contest – 3° prize in Photography section with the artworks “(Biocities)
Roma Eur 60”
Arteam Cup Prize – Finalist in Photography section with the artworks“(Biocities) Roma Eur 82B”
Combat Prize – Shortlisted with the artworks “(Rinascimento) Roma Eur # 146”
Rospigliosi Prize – Winner in Photography section with the artworks “Vibrazione Baires # 5”

2017
Fondo Malerba Fotografia – Selected in FMF Archive with project “EUR
42/Today: Different Visions”
Premio Lynx – Cultural Association Il Sestante – Finalist with the artworks
“Roma Eur Nuvola # 4”
Combat Prize – Associazione Culturale Blob Art – Shortlisted with artwork “Vibration
Roma Eur # 70”

2016
Premio Lynx – Cultural Association Il Sestante – Shortlisted with the artworks
“Liquidance 78”
Fondo Malerba Fotografia – Selected in FMF Archive with projects “Vibrations”
and “Liquidance”
Premio Ora Espaňa – Radar Cultural Association – Finalist

2015
Premio Enegan Art – Enegan spa - Finalist
Fondo Malerba Fotografia – Selected in FMF Archive with project
“(De)Compositions”
Malamegi Lab Art Foundation – Selected in the “Vision Art Contest II Edition”

2014
SaatchiArt.com – Shortlisted in “Celebrate Paris Photo” collection – (2014 November)
SaatchiArt.com – Shortlisted in “Inspired by Mondrian” collection – (2014, March)

2013
Le Journal de la Photographie - Weekend Portfolio (June, 8) – Shortlisted by the New
York gallerist and art dealer Howard Greenberg

2012
Sony World Photo Award 2012 – Sony World Photo Organisation – Shortlisted in
“Professional-Conceptual” category
Murano Glass Prize 2012 – Abate Zanetti High School (Murano-Venezia)
Winner as photo-designer in “Vetrofusione” category
Combat Prize – Blob Art Cultural Association - Finalist

2010
Celeste Prize 2010 – Celeste Cultural Association – On Line vote Winner

2009
Mondatori Art Prize - Finalist