Metafisica Concreta / Concrete Metaphysics

• Prize
  Gold in Book/Fine Art, 1st Place winner in Book
• Photographer
  Giovanni Maria Sacco
• Agency / Studio
  Giovanni Sacco
• Photo Date
  2019-2024

Concrete Metaphysics takes the reader on a fascinating, unusual and metaphysical journey through Italy. Metaphysics is concerned with what lies beyond the physical universe we perceive. This can only be suggested through metaphors: here the camera becomes a tool to create them and, as the title suggests through an oxymoron, to describe a concrete metaphysics. Black and white photographs, many on large-format film, show mysterious and unsettling places. These include the rationalist ideal city of Tresigallo, Burri's Gibellina cretto and the esoteric constructions of La Scarzuola and Bomarzo. ​ Publisher: Contrasto 2024 Hardcover 29 x 24 cm 144 pages 101 duotone illustrations Italian/English texts ISBN 978-8869659751 Artist: Giovanni Maria Sacco Curator: Benedetta Donato Texts: Benedetta Donato, Flavia Concina, Giovanni Maria Sacco ​