Signed Dairo Zucchi Photographs Claudia Bohn-Spector Exhibition Catalog HC w/DJ

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Dairo Zucchi
Photographs
by

Claudia Bohn-Spector & Alberto Pasolini Zanelli

Hardcover. 4to. Privately Printed, 2002. 70 pgs. Profusely illustrated with color photographs. Limited edition number 471. Signed by Dairo Zucchi on the FFEP.

DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present.  Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid.

 Dario Zucchi explores those brilliant, generally unrecognized connections between modern art and its admirers. The photographer's search for visitors displaying the perfect combination of colors, shapes, textures, and attitudes to be juxtaposed with paintings and sculptures, yields the delight of surprise and the shock of recognition. Introduction by Eric Denker and David Gariff, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Musical performance by Duff Davis, guitar & David Ludman, saxophone & flute. "The Milanese-born Washington photographer Dario Zucchi explores those brilliant, generally unrecognized connections between modern art and its admirers. Zucchi is fascinated by the subject of people looking at art. However, he reaches beyond the simple act of observation to investigate revealing segues between the observers and the observed. Zucchi is a modern big-game hunter armed with a camera who stalks his urban prey, the unusually dressed museum patron whose taste for art, perhaps unconsciously, parallels his taste in fashion. The photographer's search for visitors displaying the perfect combination of colors, shapes, textures, and attitudes to be juxtaposed with paintings and sculptures, yields the delight of surprise and the shock of recognition. His observers are rarely posed, but caught surreptitiously in the act of looking. Zucchi's imagery is inspired by his affection for modern art in the great collections of museums in New York, Baltimore and Washington. With a firm knowledge and awareness of the collections, he waits patiently hoping to capture the happy conflation of observer and object central to his vision. This confrontation between observers and art works is at the core of the photographer's vision. As viewers we perceive the creative and illuminating brilliance of the juxtapositions. Dario Zucchi's photographs reside at the periphery of life and artifice, characterized by humor and a passion for modern art. The imagery may be playful, the equivalent of visual puns, but they are also always provocative." Eric Denker *COVER IMAGE: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 26 February 2013 – Roy Lichtenstein