Mario Daniele. White snow, the metaphor of silence

The exhibition features a dozen photographic works (2010-2014) drawn from research on the winter landscape of Mario Daniele, along with a series of portraits. Portraits and landscapes of ethereal transcendence, so as to evoke delicate and soft pencil drawings. Pictures of elegant minimalism, where the white of the snow reveals the essence of the shapes.
"Snowscapes wrapped in a soft light, soft, muffled, where the presence of trees and the geometries of the rows of vines not stand out, but appear and vanish, appear mild and intense in the fog, among the mists, in the whiteness of the snow. Images suspended in a timeless time, almost fairy-tale, delicate like a pencil drawing on a white sheet with a few light strokes that do not want to impose, but to suggest the magic of the land and non-revealed.
Pictures almost evanescent, evocative and never purely descriptive, which feed on the emptiness and the silence in which it is possible to bring out the voice of the earth without dissipating the secret, without betraying the language. Mario Daniele offers us his poetic landscapes and personable, as a gift born of a look that knows how to be loving and patient acceptance and listening, which turns into an emotional, mental and emotional, in the face of nature. A gift that can remove the noise of the world and the anxiety of that time is pressing, for us again to hear the silent voice of the earth, to save it from oblivion in which more and more we relegate. Similar metaphors of silence, his images invite us to a comforting silence, to thoughts floating similar to daydreaming, fantasizing a sweet and deep.
A call that seems to crop and re-launched the tiny portraits, as mild counterpoint, accompanying the images of his snowy landscapes. In turn evanescent and lightweight, these portraits of faces often hidden suggest loving looks, moving towards an elsewhere or to an inner calm and thoughtful. How to guides kind, such images of faces hidden and looks suspended invite us to a possible path towards silence as a space of listening to him and meeting with a landscape that is not inert in front of us, but we re-look and through us".
Gigliola Foschi

Mario Daniele was born in 1950 Lives and works in Savigliano (CN).
In 2006 he began his research on the theme of landscape. In 2008, with the series Océan, dedicated to the Atlantic coast of France, received the first prize at the LuccaPhotoFest; in conjunction with the festival, the series was exhibited at the Palazzo Guinigi (Lucca). In 2010, during the SI Fest in Savignano, work Winter, produced between the snowy hills of the Langhe, is seen and appreciated by the collector Fabio Castelli. From that comes the invitation to participate in the following year, the first edition of MIA Fair (Milan Image Art Fair), of which Castelli is founder and artistic director. The research landscape continues That trail to the lake, poetic investigation on alpine lakes and mountains, which is presented at MIA Fair 2013 In parallel, from 2010 continues the series in museums, one dedicated to living within museum spaces.

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