Gianfranco Pezzot, Resorts
There is a metaphysical sense of emptiness in the closed rolling shutters, empty swimming pools and dwellings: this series is about holiday resorts after the season is over. Gianfranco Pezzot navigates the geography of the ideallic vacation places. Inviting scenery is isolated from its usual friendly connotations. Like ghost towns, they give us the feeling of an artificial aesthetic, built just for holidays then quickly abandoned. There is a kind of ancestral emotion, of something already stored deep within our soul, and the notion of something ending. In a contemplative atmosphere, time takes a rest.
By focusing on the shape of these places both phsyically and metaphysically and his own spiritual connections to them both real and desired, gianfranco pezzot demonstrates the acceptance of the inevitable. The shift of summer extends inside of the buildings as well exacerbated by pure white, perfectly still lines.
With no people in the photographs, only the faintest trace and suggestion of their influence, places appear as neutral sites. Nevertheless, there still exists an idyllic happiness of a season full of activity. Buildings become art, free to stand regardless of their new ambition to just be.
By focusing on the shape of these places both phsyically and metaphysically and his own spiritual connections to them both real and desired, gianfranco pezzot demonstrates the acceptance of the inevitable. The shift of summer extends inside of the buildings as well exacerbated by pure white, perfectly still lines.
With no people in the photographs, only the faintest trace and suggestion of their influence, places appear as neutral sites. Nevertheless, there still exists an idyllic happiness of a season full of activity. Buildings become art, free to stand regardless of their new ambition to just be.
RESORTS




