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Maurizio Montagna

Billboards

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Texts by Francesco Zanot, Maik Shulter, Roberta Valtorta, Denis Curti.


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Choosing a precise category of subjects in the context of a marginal landscape, and employing terse, essential and synthetic language, in the photographic series Billboards Maurizio Montagna has worked on...

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  • ISBN: 9788862080262
  • Language: English / Italian
  • Pages: 140
  • Illustrations: 80
  • Binding: Cloth paperback with jacket
  • Release: Spring 2009
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Choosing a precise category of subjects in the context of a marginal landscape, and employing terse, essential and synthetic language, in the photographic series Billboards Maurizio Montagna has worked on an absence: the space left blank on advertising billboards. Roberta Valtorta writes: “Maurizio Montagna’s photography is direct. It is the photography of ‘real’ things, or what is in front of the eyes and the camera, which has nothing to do with the dimension of digital intervention. And yet, in our contemporary age, when photography is being transformed into images, we cannot help but think that it might be a digital process of electronic cancellation. In a certain sense these empty panels recall the canvases whic Lucio Fontana chose to slash once, twice, many times, Yves Klein’s monochromes, Mark Rothko’s painted backgrounds, the work of Mondrian himself. There is, therefore, an abstract component in this photography which has a frankly documentary feel. Their realist soul is conversely felt in a simple and clear way, and speaks to us plainly of these mute structures and of the landscape. The empty billboards are guides to the landscape, pretexts for looking at the landscape. Therefore, from one photograph to the next, we see blocks of flats, cars, motorbikes, street furniture, streets, walls, green spaces, snow, scattered houses, bushes, homes and factories, and all the elements which go to make up the urban fabric”.

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  • Description

    Choosing a precise category of subjects in the context of a marginal landscape, and employing terse, essential and synthetic language, in the photographic series Billboards Maurizio Montagna has worked on an absence: the space left blank on advertising billboards. Roberta Valtorta writes: “Maurizio Montagna’s photography is direct. It is the photography of ‘real’ things, or what is in front of the eyes and the camera, which has nothing to do with the dimension of digital intervention. And yet, in our contemporary age, when photography is being transformed into images, we cannot help but think that it might be a digital process of electronic cancellation. In a certain sense these empty panels recall the canvases whic Lucio Fontana chose to slash once, twice, many times, Yves Klein’s monochromes, Mark Rothko’s painted backgrounds, the work of Mondrian himself. There is, therefore, an abstract component in this photography which has a frankly documentary feel. Their realist soul is conversely felt in a simple and clear way, and speaks to us plainly of these mute structures and of the landscape. The empty billboards are guides to the landscape, pretexts for looking at the landscape. Therefore, from one photograph to the next, we see blocks of flats, cars, motorbikes, street furniture, streets, walls, green spaces, snow, scattered houses, bushes, homes and factories, and all the elements which go to make up the urban fabric”.


  • Shipping

    Shipments are made worldwide by express courier.

    Delivery is expected within 7 working days after registration of payment.

    Shipping costs vary depending on the weight of the shipment and the country of destination, and are calculated automatically when the order is placed.


  • Return and refund

    Pursuant to Article 5 of Legislative Decree No. 185 of 22 May 1999, if the customer is a consumer (i.e. a natural person who purchases goods for purposes not related to his or her professional activity, or who makes a purchase by omitting a VAT number from the order form), he or she has the right to withdraw from the purchase contract for any reason whatsoever, without the need to provide explanations and without any penalty, within 14 working days from the day of receipt of the goods.

    The right of withdrawal shall be exercised by sending, within the aforementioned term, a written notice to the geographical address of the supplier's registered office by means of a registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. The communication may also be sent, again within the same deadline, by means of a PEC or facsimile.
    The consumer shall enclose with the communication all the references of the order (order date, order number, precise references identifying the party concerned, company or private individual.
    The goods you wish to return must be undamaged and in their original packaging.

    The consumer must also supplement the communication with his or her complete bank details in order to obtain reimbursement of the sums paid (current account number, ABI and CAB, CIN code; for foreign countries, the BIC and IBAN codes), which will be carried out as quickly as possible and in any case within fourteen days of the date on which the supplier became aware of the consumer's exercise of the right of withdrawal. As the only charge for exercising the right of withdrawal, the consumer shall bear the direct cost of returning the goods. In the case of payment by credit card, the sums shall be returned net of bank commission charges (2.5%).

    In the event of a dispute, reference will be made to the competent court.