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Vincenzo Sardone
Italy
Credits
Vincenzo Sardone @ Master Madi Iuav
Notes
Madagascar is an image that I created during the covid restrictions in January 2021. I'm a lover of travel, so my fantasy teleported me away from Italy. This a room of a colonial house, on a tropical beach. I wanted to play with a light to highlight the chair, the protagonist of the scene, as if it were a painting by Caravaggio. But if you look closer, you can see other details: the reflection on the wallpaper, the wooden floor, the fog at the bottom and the presence of an iguana, at the bottom right. I'm convinced that details can change the way you see things
Rendering Engine
V-Ray
School
MADI - Iuav University (Italy)
Sources of Inspiration and References
I think that light is the protagonist of my images and for this reason my inspirations and references are mainly art (specifically the painters who use light such as Caravaggio and William Turner), photography (Alex Webb, Luigi Ghirri, Franco Fontana), cinematography (Wes Anderson, Kubrick, Gondry) and the theory of color by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
I always try to create photorealistic images, capable of telling a story even only through the use of colors and light. I love the balances and contrasts that these two elements can create between them: together they can generate emotions and moods. The protagonists, when they are present, are alone: I try to tell their story in a precise moment of their life: for example, the old man who loses his wife, a garbage man who wakes up before everyone else.
Some of my references:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/Caravaggio_-_La_vocazione_di_San_Matteo.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/Joseph_Mallord_William_Turner_012.jpg
https://www.magnumphotos.com/arts-culture/society-arts-culture/alex-webb-city-of-hundred-names/
https://explore.mygobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/1.Alex_Webb.jpg
https://www.exibartstreet.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/the-suffering-of-light-exhibition-alex-webb-imp-padova-exibart-street-photography-05.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QAvwI0_Yaf0/UwoSTMGaxVI/AAAAAAAAJQ4/JYQvk9FqrBQ/s1600/ALEX+WEBB+01+(3).jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzUB1D5XQ_w
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