(Adnkronos) - "Di solito i miei lavori su commissione sono per architetti e riguardano edifici, città, luoghi e così via. Quindi, ero davvero entusiasta quando il Maxxi mi ha contattato un paio di mesi fa per lavorare a questo progetto; questo perché faccio sempre molte fotografie aeree, da edifici in città, per approfondire, ingrandire davvero e mostrare questa combinazione di città e paesaggio. Penso che le autostrade siano un soggetto davvero interessante”. Lo ha detto il fotografo olandese, Iwan Baan, rispondendo alle domande dei cronisti all’interno del MAXXI per la presentazione della mostra fotografica dal titolo: ‘Italia in movimento. Autostrade e futuro’.
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00:00Usually my commissions work is for architects and they concern buildings, cities, places and so on.
00:13So I was really excited when Max contacted me a couple of months ago to work on this project.
00:18This is because I always do a lot of aerial photography of buildings in the city,
00:22in this context to really deepen and enlarge and show this combination of city and landscape.
00:29Naturally to show how in the beautiful Italian cities this infrastructure intersects with all this,
00:34how it is placed on the landscape, how it is realized and all the rest.
00:38I think it's a really interesting subject.
00:49I know Italy well for its extraordinary landscapes, its cities, its villages.
00:53Usually highways run fast.
00:56For me it was also a kind of new discovery of the beauty of these infrastructures in extraordinary landscapes
01:03and it was also something that I tried to convey with the way in which I photographed it.
01:08Naturally from above, it is like composing an image with the subject, the landscapes, the cities, all the different ingredients together.
01:16Then I experimented like the images in black and white that you see here,
01:20with a special full-screen camera that allows you to discover the images through a different light
01:27and see how the artificial infrastructures are placed differently on the landscape
01:32and tunnels are dug through this.