The length of a total eclipse is seven minutes and a half at the most.
The clown slept and did not realize it, as the trumpet player announced the event; the men who walked with their gaze to the ground did not see it; those who looked up to the sky did. Some stopped to think, but it didn’t last long enough to complete their thoughts.
Creator and spectator at the same time, Paolo Ventura adopts an unconventional chromatic palette, as unusual as the pictorial perspectives that in his works evoke and suggest distant, enigmatic worlds beyond reality.
In 2018 Paolo Ventura received a large solo show in Armani/Silos in Milan "Racconti Immaginari (2018).
Giorgio Armani: ‘I’ve observed Paolo Ventura’s works with much interest and have been fascinated by the narrative power of his creations, and his ability to transform evocative, imaginary landscapes into photographs'.
Ventura studied at the Milan’s Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in the early 1990s.
Solo exhibitions include the Forma International Center for Photography, Milan; Museum of Contemporary Art of Roma (MACRO), Rome; The Hague Museum of Photography, The Hague; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles and Armani Silos, Milan.
He was selected by curator Vittorio Sgarbi to create a series of works for the Italian national pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale.
Other exhibitions of his work include Les Rencontres de la Photographie en Arles, Auditorium della Conciliazione, Italy; Camera Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Torino, Italy; Museum Het Valkhof, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Fotokino, Marseille and many more.
His work is included in the collections of the MAXXI museum, Rome; Boston Museum of Fine Art, USA; Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., Lowe Art Museum, Miami, USA: MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy; Maison Européen de la Photographie, Paris, France: Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy and Instituto Centrale per la Grafica in Rome, Italy.
Ventura graduated in 1991 from the renowned Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan (founded in 1776), where he was immersed in Italian history, techniques, and one of the most respected collections of Italian Renaissance paintings at the Pinacoteca di Brera.
Armani / Silos museum:
https://www.armanisilos.com/exhibition/paolo-venturas-racconti-immaginari/