DOMINGO MILELLA
2012-11-19Domingo Milella’s subjects are cities and their borders, cemeteries and villages, caves and homes, tombs and hieroglyphs – in short, signs of man’s presence on earth. His interest lies in the overlap between civilisation and nature and how landscape and architecture are invested with individual and collective memory. He is drawn to places where the cultural and the natural meet, where architecture grows out of the earth and is born of necessity, mirroring its makers and inhabitants.
Polignano a Mare (2008) shows fortifications and housing built on top of a rocky outcrop, appearing almost as if they have grown organically out of the land. In Cheops and Chephren, Giza, Egypt (2009), the Pyramids rise up from behind modern apartment blocks on the edge of the desert and in Acitrezza (2008), teenagers perch high up on the distinctive lava rocks watching a wintery sunset. Milella seeks to create an alternative imagery, of looking for a sense of identity and a culture that is simultaneously ancient and modern. In an increasingly virtual age where communities are being eroded by technological interaction and the pressures of consumerism, his images question where we headed and what kind of world are we creating in the process.
Opposite – Naucalpan, Mexico City, 2004
Exhibition runs through till January 26th, 2013
Brancolini Grimaldi
43–44 Albemarle Street
London
W1S 4JJ
