Renato d'Agostin, The Beautiful Cliché - Veneziaexhibition running from November 3 - December 7, 2011opening reception: Thursday, November 3rd from 6pm in presence of the artist and presentation of the eponymous book published by édition Silvana (IT)Texts of the photographer and italian historian Italo Zannier and curator Chiara Casarin.Foreword by Renata Codello, Superintendent of Culture of the City of Venice.exhi…

Renato d'Agostin TOKYO UNTITLED For his first solo exhibition at PHOTO4 gallery, 25 gelatin silver prints from the « Tokyo Untitled » serie will be presented. In Tokyo Untitled D'Agostin isolates himself in the geometries of the Japanese city. He narrates his journey through his experience of the street, describing with the language of abstract images, charged of deep blacks and sharp edges. Dislocating subjects from their realities, D'Agostin depicts his perception of the space arou…

Venice, Casablanca, Paris and Washington, that's where each of them started his own photographic venture.  Here we meet with four points of view, four sizes, nevertherless each of them aiming at the perfect detail, enhancing so their work. Those works are so intermingled with their breathing, here is the mysterious link running through this exhibition.   Renato d'Agostin in his 25th year, lives and works in New York. His show (Metropolis) just ended at Leica Gallery in New York (june 20…

Scenes from ordinary life, improbable encounters, miracles of an instant...whatever the period or geography of the location, these photographs, taken by people of different nationalities and of different generations, transform our universe into a very singular place. The street is, for each of us, so very banal when we walk down it every day…until the click of a photographer's camera transforms the place we thought we knew into complete novelty; because that particular day the vision is pure,…