Curtis Mann. Verso

On January 15, Curtis Mann inaugurates VERSO, his third monographic at Light Gallery, confirming his great interest in the physicality of photography; Mann infact makes use of photography similar to the material used in sculpture and, over the years, has pushed the physical limits of photography.
The exhibition, site specific, will be composed of images taken at the gallery in Turin, details of objects or people, then printed and on which the artist has intervened with cuts, folds and fissures through which yet in sight, blurred, l 'primary object of photography.
The vision of these successive layers of reality, one above the other, depends solely by the observer, from his point of view, from the corner where you place, thus opening the work to multiple interpretations and readings and giving us the complexity of 'viewing experience and beyond. The visitor is in fact surrounded by pictures that the space in which it is located, but modified so as to produce a particular effect of estrangement. The gallery becomes a shared space, a place where the works stimulate reflection and vision, but also an area where everyone can be mirrored and, once the confusion, find themselves.

Curtis Mann likes to use the word confusion when describing his work and, in fact. often undergoes a destabilizing effect of shifting boundaries in front of his work, mainly confusion between photography and sculpture. Mann intervened in the early works of images found on the net, which modified using photoshop or mechanical work; Today, especially in this exhibition in Turin, the artist makes a next step portraying himself the world around him on which then intervenes with cuts and ripples, thus opening a window - or many - the reality portrayed that, depending on the point of view of the observer, is transformed. A pretty obvious symbolism built with the lightness and playfulness that characterizes this artist born in 1979 in Ohio, a teacher of Photography at Columbia University, for which their work is an eternal work in progress, which is transported from its always a curiosity little 'farther and that, for this, never repeats.
With TO, the exhibition site specific at Light Gallery, for the first time Mann builds a game of boxes and variations on the theme of space that contains it, a visual and sensory experiment that certainly will not leave the audience indifferent.

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