Concrete Metaphysics
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PrizeGold in Book/Fine Art
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PhotographerGiovanni Maria Sacco, Italy
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Concrete Metaphysics takes the reader on a fascinating, unusual and metaphysical journey through Italy. Metaphysics is concerned with what lies beyond the physical universe we perceive. This can only be suggested through metaphors: here the camera becomes a tool to create them and, as the title suggests through an oxymoron, to describe a concrete metaphysics. Black and white photographs, many on large-format film, show mysterious and unsettling places. These include the rationalist ideal city of Tresigallo, Burri's Gibellina cretto and the esoteric constructions of La Scarzuola and Bomarzo.
Publisher: Contrasto
2024 Hardcover 29 x 24 cm 144 pages 101 duotone illustrations
Italian/English texts
ISBN 978-8869659751
Artist: Giovanni Maria Sacco
Curator: Benedetta Donato
Texts: Benedetta Donato, Flavia Concina, Giovanni Maria Sacco
Awards International Photography Awards: 2015, 2016 (3), 2018 (2), 2019 (3), 2020 (3), 2021 (3), 2022 (4), 2023 (4), 2024, 2025 (2)
Moscow International Foto Awards: 2016, 2017, 2020 (2)
Budapest International Foto Awards: 2023, 2024, 2025
Tokyo International Foto Awards: 2017, 2018, 2020 (3), 2022 (3), 2024 (2 + 1st place in Book), 2025 (3 + 1st Place in Books)
PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris: 2017, 2020 (2), 2021 (3), 2022 (3), 2023 (2), 2024 (2), 2025 (3)
Fine Art Photography Awards: 2017, 2018 (2), 2019, 2020, 2021(2), 2024 (3), 2025 (2)
ND Awards: 2016, 2018, 2020 (2), 2021(2), 2022, 2024 (2), 2025 (2)
Monochrome Awards: 2017, 2018 (2), 2019 (2), 2020, 2022(2), 2024
Monovision Awards: 2020, 2022 (3), 2023 (2), 2024, 2025
Analog Sparks: 2023 (2), 2024, 2025
Architecture Master Prize: 2021, 2022 (2 + Best of Best), 2023 (1 + Best of Best), 2024
Arte Laguna Prize: 2024 (2)
refocus awards: 2023, 2024
Siena Creative Awards, 2021, 2022
Urban Awards: 2021 (finalist), 2023 (Civic Museum prize)
