Beauty always hides where you least expect it. This time it's the industrial landscapes portrayed in winter and in black and white by David Lynch, the brilliant North American director, who arrives at the Mast in Bologna with an exhibition in 111 shots of factories, chimneys, broken glass, echoes of an industrial archeology that it is not known whether they represent our past or our future.
“Ruins of a disappearing world – claims a note from the gallery – in which factories were milestones of proud progress and not desolate places, sets for stories full of that emotional aura characteristic of Lynch”.
These are photos that the author of Blue Velvet has taken since the 80s in Berlin, Los Angeles, New York City and parts of Poland, England and New Jersey.
“It is as if the soot, the vapors or the fine dust that enveloped those places – adds Mast – had settled on the surface of the paper: the result are images of extraordinary sensory power, like drawings made in charcoal, in which the black load of clear, graphic lines, cuts the dark gray of the fields. Lynch's unmistakable character is revealed in a suggestive way in the chosen subjects, in the atmospheres, in the color nuances of arcane and surreal worlds, in the dreamlike sequences that evoke the labyrinthine and enigmatic vision of his films”.
The exhibition is completed by a sound installation by the artist and a selection of his first short films, unknown to the general public. Title of the event is “David Lynch The Factory Photographs“, headquarters of the Bolognese “Bobour”, the Mast (Manufacture of Arts, Experimentation and Technology) wanted by the entrepreneur Isabella Seragnoli. Admission is free and the exhibition, curated by Petra Giloy-Hirtz, opens today and closes on 13 December.
