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Opening Saturday April 3rd - Michael Kenna: Il Fiume Po (The River Po)
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photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce Michael Kenna: Il Fiume Po (The River Po), an online solo exhibition by English photographer Michael Kenna. This exhibition corresponds with Kenna's recent photobook Il Fiume Po, published by Corsiero Editore.
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| Michael Kenna, Ponti di Spagna, Bondeno, Ferrara, Italy. 2018, gelatin-silver print, 8 x 8 inches, edition of 25, $3500 |
photo-eye Gallery is pleased to announce Michael Kenna: Il Fiume Po (The River Po), an online solo exhibition by English photographer Michael Kenna. This exhibition corresponds with Kenna's recent photobook Il Fiume Po, published by Corsiero Editore.
The delicacy of Michael Kenna’s unique photographic sensibility becomes particularly apparent in his series Il Fiume Po. Kenna's atmospheric images present the natural and man-made surroundings of the River Po through a captivating perspective that offers both mystery and stillness.
The photographs in this series contain an exact balance between the ethereal and corporeal. Through Kenna's subtle manipulation of relationships between airy white and rich black tones, the mirror-like surface of the river, overcast skies, and man-made objects, this body of work embodies unexpected visual contrasts that are of an almost otherworldly beauty.
Michael Kenna: Il Fiume Po (The River Po) opens online Saturday, April 3. It uses photo-eye’s revolutionary new VisualServer X website builder and is the fourth in photo-eye's series of online exhibitions.
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| Michael Kenna, Tunnel of Poplars, Boretto, Reggio Emilia, Italy, 2017, gelatin-silver print, 8" x 8", edition of 25, $3000 |
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| Michael Kenna, Moored Boats, Guastalla, Reggio Emilia, Italy. 2006, gelatin-silver print, 8" x 8", edition of 25, $2500 |
"The Po is ancient and I am only a fleeting visitor. I have always loved the Heraclitus quote that says No man has ever stepped in the same river twice; it is not the same river and he is not the same man. I like to apply these concepts to photography. Nothing, myself included, is ever the same. The river flows whether I am there or not, but I think there is some sort of energy exchange in every encounter. The Po has certainly influenced and changed me. I'm not so sure how I changed the Po, other than photographing it and exhibiting the works."
— Michael Kenna
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| Michael Kenna, Aquaculture Structures, Study 2, Sacca degli Scardovari, Porto Tolle, Rovigo, Italy. 2018, gelatin-silver print, 8" x 8", edition of 25, $3000 | | |
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| Michael Kenna, Night Power Station, Pila, Porto Tolle, Rovigo, Italy. 2018 gelatin-silver print, 8" x 8", edition of 25, $3000 |
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| Michael Kenna, White Boat, Guastalla, Reggio Emilia, Italy. 2017, gelatin-silver print, 8" x 8", edition of 25, $3000 |
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| Michael Kenna, River Po Waterfall, Pian del Re, Crissolo, Cuneo, Italy. 2019, gelatin-silver print, 8" x 8", edition of 25, $3000 |
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| Michael Kenna © 2009 Mark Silva |
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For more information, and to purchase prints, please contact Gallery Director
Anne Kelly or Gallery Assistant
Patricia Martin, or you may also call us at 505-988-5152 x202
