Le livre de Vincenzo Pagliuca est un film B architectural situé dans les Apennins du sud de l’Italie. Les bâtiments solitaires qu’il a photographiés sont des maisons simples, composées de formes géométriques élémentaires. Pourtant, certaines habitations rudimentaires ressemblent à des pastiches pastel, miniatures de bâtiments historiques ou même avant-gardistes. Elles semblent déplacées, formées d’éléments architecturaux qui souvent ne s’emboîtent pas. Toujours photographiés d’un point de vue central et sous un ciel couvert, ils deviennent des sculptures de l’homme commun et nous font penser à comment et pourquoi les gens construisent, vivent et pensent ; texte de Giovanni Fiorentino.
Vincenzo Pagliuca’s book is an architectural B-movie set in the southern Apennines of Italy. The solitary buildings he photographed are simple houses, composed of elementary geometric shapes. Yet some of the rudimentary dwellings look like pastel, miniature pastiches of historical or even avant-garde buildings. They seem to be out of place, formed from architectural elements that often don’t quite fit together. Always photographed from a central perspective and under an overcast sky, they become sculptures of the common man and make us think about how and why people build, live, and think ; text by Giovanni Fiorentino.
Vincenzo Pagliuca (*1980) studied economics before turning to photography as an autodidact, eventually attending the master class of Antonio Biasiucci‘s “laboratorio irregolare”. His long-term projects focus primarily on the rural and suburban regions of his native country. Pagliuca‘s work has been exhibited and published internationally. “mónos” is his second book. He lives and works in Brescia.
