Concrete Metaphysics

• Prize
  Gold in Book/Fine Art
• Photographer
  Giovanni Maria Sacco, Italy
• Website
  https://www.gmsacco.com
• Instagram
  https://www.instagram.com/giovannimariasacco/

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 Px3 2017
IPA 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019
MIFA 2016, 2017
ND awards 2016, 2018
FAPA 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020
TIFA 2017
Monochrome awards 2017, 2018, 2019