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Comunicato stampa evento: Lorenzo Jucker - Ukiyo-e

Dal giovedì 12 giugno 2008
al sabato 12 luglio 2008

Ukiyo-e means 'pictures of the floating world’ and it is a genre of Japanese woodblock prints. It is a suspended world over lines drawn in the sky, while fog frames the shapes of a primordial nature that lives together with a silent architecture.
These shapes concern nature, exotic vegetation and human presence suggested by signs left in a primitive borderland, as Himalaya is. The first sprouts of a magnolia and the endless sky are the real inhabitants of this place. Material signs exist: a chair on an improbable platform or an open air cinema where the screen is made of haze, and soul signs exist as well as hung mantra fluctuating in the fog with men reciting their litanies and women looking far at the empty space. A sight in the landscape, getting lost in the soft hues of an almost white sky and between the tops of the trees fading inside it.
Jucker’s research is driven by a poetical and spiritual sense, proposing an harmonious and still but full of life scene.
The perception of a shaded and intangible surface that hides history, traditions and life.
This surface becomes the background of a private reality and the personal images take form waving through a roof and the leaves of the trees.
It is impossible to see through the dense fog and find what exists beyond the human abilities and this produces a new look, the one of individual and inner landscape.

Lorenzo Jucker
Born in Milan, 1974.
He lives and works as a freelance photographer in Milan, where he goes on with his professional activity and his personal photo research.

Education
2004
- Degree in Architecture at the Politecnico of Milan
(with thesis about Bernd and Hilla Becher, edited by Roberta Valtorta, project mentioned at the first edition of Paolo Costantini award for the Photography essay)
2002
- Riccardo Bauer, Photography, Milan
- Dentro la Città Europa, with Lewis Baltz, Gabriele Basilico, Francesco Jodice and Armin Linke, Milan Triennal
2001
- Fotografia e rappresentazione del territorio, with Piero Pozzi

Shows
2005
- Il racconto di un luogo, National photography Award Riccardo Pezza, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
- Indecisioni, by Sara Maestranzi, Fastweb Foyer, Milan (solo show)
2003
- La Provincia e il suo Territorio, Urban Center, Milan
2002
- Omaggio a Irving Penn, Spazio Comunicazioni Visive, C.F.P. Riccardo Bauer, Milan

Bibliography
- Scatti per bene, Milano, 2006, (catalogue of the third edition Asta Fotografica at Sotheby’s for CAF Onlus)
- La Provincia e il suo territorio, Silvana Editore, Cinisello Balsamo Milano, 2003 (catalogue of the show)

Awards
2005
- Electrolux Photochallenge – Sguardi sulla globalizzazione (National photography Award Riccardo Pezza, Milan)
2003
- La Provincia e il suo Territorio, Provincia di Milano, third classed)

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