And the similar ones.This site is a
presentation of Tempographies, a kind
of photos invented and made from Seventies to today by Loris Lorenzini.
Some
considerations about groups of Tempographies:
And the similar ones.I’ve often
been attracted from the idea to show the
ZERO and the ONE. They are the fundamental element of many important
concepts:
- The computer science uses them as the base
to its structure, (if there wasn’t the computer science, you
wouldn’t see this
page), and in fact the transmission between computers is based on Zero
and One.
- The concept
of Zero is not natural, but the One’s is (Zero was invented a few
time ago
while One is innate in everyone).
- They’re the
symbol of absence and presence. Of existence and non-existence. Of full
and
empty.
- Philosophers
and mathematicians wrote millions of words about them.
- In Italian,
put together, they can be read as numbers or words, so that they can
mean “I”
or even “ten”.
- In my dialect
“Zero one” means literally “I was someone”.
In these photos
I’ve inserted some references of the
minimalist and repetitive music of Philip Glass, inspired by the
original
scores that, luckily, I photographed live. I found out that
they’re extremely
brief (half on hour of performance in only one side).
The repetitive score
is added to the repetitive notes,
which are represented by Zero and One, expressed with a scale of greys,
depending on their intensity or their volume. They are also present as
transparencies
and really big, to underline the three dimension of his music (the most
abstract art ever… it vanishes when it’s just produced).
Then I made a
series of Tempographies:
and the similar ones...Where the reality is
added to the tempographic elaborations,
so that it transforms them. The technique is particularly delicate
because it
is necessary to combine exactly the
exposition times of the photo with the tempographic interventions ones.
Another kind is
the writing one:
And the similar ones…
Where a macro photo
of a writing is enlarged and combined with
the
tempographic technique
Its realisation
takes a long time but it’s easier then
the preceding one, because the sings of the letters have only one
tonality.
It’s
well-known that a screen cannot be able to
reproduce the whole range of tonality of these photos… you have
to see them
live!
See you soon.