Renato Pasmanik. Un regard silencieux

For Renato Pasmanik, fourty-four years old brazilian, photography is a lifelong passion.
Since 1998 he has gradually constructed a photographic oeuvre that combines both dream and reality. His work goes beyond the notion of time and his photographs bear witness to the immensity of nature and of human warmth.
He has created portraits of the leading directors and maîtres d’hôtel of Sao Paulo’s gourmet restaurants.
And, bound by the magic of earth and space, he has photographed the Antarctic, the Lençois Maranhenses, a desert region of Brazil, the Pantanal, the world’s most humid region and, lastly, the African continent.
Unlike Arthus-Bertrand, who is obsessed with the search for explanations, Renato Pasmanik calls for a contemplativo that is constructive rather than dazed, as if the eye that looks at his photographs were trying to find again original purity and the earth’s substance.
There is in the contemplation of Renato Pasmanik’s work a kind of equanimity, a serenity and plenitude, but also lucidity.
These qualities are to be found in his latest work, Un regard silencieux (A silent gaze), where the beauty of the landscapes relates to the human consciousness.
 The exhibition at Officina delle Zattere in Venice presents different steps of this immense adventure: Namibia, Pantanal and Lençois Maranhenses.
It introduces mainly his recent work of artistic photography from Jalapão, a tropical savannah ecoregion in the middle of Brazil, 1700 kilometres away from Sao Paolo, cut off by a web of rivers, streams and creeks.
This is a very new sequence of Renato Pasmanik’s glance on ground landscapes: Un regard silencieux, looking for peace in our today’s hectic world.

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