Stowe
Fragile Things
Gino spent a year as Resident Artist with Arts at Stowe. He drew, painted and photographed the grounds and buildings of both Stowe School and gardens. This work was subsequently exhibited then published in book form. During his residency he exhibited "Fragile Things" in the Sainsbury Gallery and delivered a summer masterclass on painting in the Watson Art School at Stowe.
Fragile Things represented the fragility of both nature and humanity.
Selected photographs from his residency later premiered in the Exposure Awards, The Louvre Museum, Paris, and the Scope Art Show, Miami, a selection of the photographs he took of Stowe were published in "A Meditation on Place" (2015), "The Voice of The Artist" (2015) and "Stories Within Images" (2016)
Gino printed small editions of selected photographs he made while at Stowe and these were published in an artist book "Fragile Things", Book of Photography, Artpressed, 2015
Gino found a constancy of interconnected spaces and forms at Stowe with an environment full of interactive conversations much like Rothko's paintings. Which are windows to a many layered world. Reminding Gino of his time spent in Oregon making drawings and paintings from the landscape.
Mirrors to the World
Through the looking glass Alice went and wonderful sights were beheld and Judy Garland sought home on the Yellow Brick Road in the Wizard of OZ. It is the possibility, the journey and the discovery which define an experience or reality. Gino captures through photography perceived experience, reality, stories to be told and the wonders of nature.
Many Worlds
Quantum physics proposes that there are many non interacting parallel worlds, whether this is accurate or not is up for debate. The potential for Many Worlds to be more active is far more interesting. All around us are amazing and perplexing combinations of worlds we see and marvel at as they journey through time with us. Contrasting, harmonies existing parallel to each other creating symphonies. We immediately see this when looking into water.
Fragile Balance
The fragile balance created by nature where the environment shares food, light, moisture and temperature to create sustainable living conditions is susceptible to small changes when climate Changs. Climate change naturally occurs throughout the life of planet Earth, our home. But the human destabilisation of the natural order of environments has created huge shifts in the climate and inevitably we see the enormous destruction this brings.
Ripples of Power
The human propensity for wealth, greed and power is undeniably one of the worst human traits. It consumes the human spirit and pollutes the mind. Instant transactions are all and a myopic view of the world prevails. The means become unimportant and the narcissism of greed gives pleasure and comfort to those who have power and control. The feelings of superiority, deserving and self aggrandisement strengthen their materialist and emotional world.
The present and only the present is unimportant and the future is an abstract concept to be looked after by others because it won't impact on their world.
Solar Sun
Sketchbook
Gino always carries a sketchbook because he likes to record perceived time and space, he feels the experience of looking is more indelible this way. Infiltrating the consciousness and capturing the cracks between the actual. What a photograph captures depends on the length of the exposure and feels like a space between the conscious act of looking.
The watercolours below give a sense of capturing the gaps between the actual whereas the photographs capture a momentary aspect of the world around us. The analysis each one needs is different and is individual to each medium.
