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Vitality and reflection, a fast pace and fresh images treated with mastery that can only derive from long-standing technical asceticism, bright colours and a subtle irony pervaded by an enigmatic, though perceptible, spirituality – these are all characteristics of the works collected here, which strike us upon first impact. The works presented in China Contemporary Painting defy any attempt at categorization, since they respond to a multiplicity of approaches and interpretations of the contemporary reality and draw on the past in different ways. As Eleonora Battiston writes: The painters presented here do not share a precise common denominator. In fact it is interesting to observe how each uses and interprets this genre in a most different way, thus making it very topical and loaded with countless possibilities. They are the creators of works offering us a cross-section of and insight into contemporary Chinese art through manifold perspectives on this new painting genre from afar. 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Whilst looking at these pictures, by some bizarre short circuit of the mind, I was reminded of a song that Antoine sung in a long-gone edition of the San Remo music festival: \"but what did you put in the coffee?\". Who knows how many thoughts and ideas have be stimulated by the aroma steaming from the tiny coffee cups and by the caffeine giving prized refreshment and energy to these artists immortalised by the photographers's flash with surrendering complicity - photographers who perhaps were unaware of it at the time, but who would later be proud of that nickname that Fellini invented for them: paparazzi. 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A production whose thread is experimentation and a fruitful curiosity fostered by a combination of engagement and delight, observation and irony. In this sense, the closing passage of Philippe Daverio’s introductury text seems to be particularly significant: His is a varied course. In the 1950s he focused his Neo-Realist attention on describing an evolving nation, old fashioned in its people but ripe for the flattery of modernity. He soon passed over […] to the other side, to abstraction, an abstraction catching sight of a different formal imagery. Furthermore, he ventured into investigating nature’s organisms […] where the optical system no longer rules and left this role to the magic alchemy of printing. Then he turned his eyes to contemporary narration, that which has become practically virtual in the last thirty years, television. 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Featuring the work of 13 seminal American photographers the book uses a series of photographs by each of the photographers to look again at the country's position in the world. Each of the photographers chosen have turned their critical gaze on the problems of their own society : Helen Levitt's photos of street life in New York's East Village in the 1950s, Robert Frank's images of the 1960s Beat Generation, portraits of periphery figures by Diane Arbus, the early work of Lee Friedlander that highlights loneliness in New York, Solomon's shots of New Orleans in the 1990s, Gordon Parks' depiction of racial issues and the Mafia and finally two photographers of the youngest generation, Ryan McGinley and Ed Templeton. The pictures in this book do not judge but provoke the viewers into making their own judgement. 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Garuti’s specific cipher is reinterpretation of the classical vision of the frame: he frees his images from the uniqueness of the moment seized by the shot, then freezes a multiplicity of times in the photo. So the resulting image is deconstructed into a kaleidoscope of possible moments and emotions, where the details constitute the whole but also exist as moments in themselves. The book presents a selection of architectonic and urban views shot between 2003 and 2006. The places are very well known indeed, perhaps even trite (the dilapidated buildings of Havana or Moscow’s Red Square) but Garuti nonetheless makes them special with a masterful technique of decomposition carried out at the printing phase, without recourse to digital retouching. Garuti stratifies the cityscape and multiplies its contents to guide the eye towards that anonymity made of glass, iron and cement which today constitutes an actual aesthetic category: the non-place. 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