OLTRE IL MURO: ARTE e FOTOGRAFIA: THE COLOURS OF SILENCE

venerdì 11 gennaio 2013

THE COLOURS OF SILENCE | LUIGI FIENI

© Luigi Fieni – Sunset Brushstrokes- Hahnemuehle PhotoRag 308 g - Lomanthang, Mustang, Nepal - 2009

Luigi Fieni’s bond with this continent was born thanks to restoration, his main profession, which led him so far from his country, Italy. By chance, or maybe Karma is the word that should be used, what should have been a couple of months project of conservation in Nepal, turned to be his multi-year experience in the Himalayas as a conservator.

© Luigi Fieni - Boys in Red - Hahnemuehle PhotoRag 308 g - Lomanthang, Mustang, Nepal - 2009

© Luigi Fieni - Burning Juniper I - Hahnemuehle PhotoRag 308 g - Lomanthang, Mustang, Nepal - 2005

© Luigi Fieni - Burning Juniper III - Hahnemuehle PhotoRag 308 g - Lomanthang, Mustang, Nepal - 2005

Photography was born in 2004: due to work obligations Luigi had to buy a professional camera to document the restoration work for the American Himalayan Foundation. Some of those first photos he took for fun, to show his friends what the Himalaya meant to him, and they ended up in a National Geographic book. Some others received international awards and it was by that time that Luigi Fieni took seriously photography as a mean to express himself in a new way: try to talk through the camera shutter.

© Luigi Fieni - Chains of Faith I- Hahnemuehle PhotoRag 308 g - Lomanthang, Mustang, Nepal – 2007

© Luigi Fieni – Devotions- Hahnemuehle PhotoRag 308 g - Lomanthang, Mustang, Nepal – 2008

© Luigi Fieni – Doka- Hahnemuehle PhotoRag 308 g - Lomanthang, Mustang, Nepal - 2009

Luigi Fieni’s photography could be summed up as an art critic recently wrote: “Impressionistic photography, which paints the energy’s spikes of religious dances, of local community festivals. From vortex, his photography calms down to become motionless contemplation, among the silence of the valleys and in front of the sacred statues. Let’s close our eyes and hear the colours of silence.”