Sergio Castiglione
Bio
Architect and photography artist. He developed activities in the field of
the creation and management of art as assistant curator for the 50th anniversary exhibition of the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1985 and for the Palanza Prize in 1986.
He worked as a researcher for the architecture supplements of El Cronista, La Nación, Revista Summa and D & D from 1986 to 1990 and living abroad, between 1990 and 1993, he was a correspondent in Europe and the United States.
He toured more than two hundred cities around the world, documenting in his photographs what makes each metropolis unique from his artist's vision.
His work has been highlighted with the Windows to the Future Photography Award in 2014, sponsored by Parex Group and the CAyC.
He has made numerous collective and individual exhibitions. In our country in Buenos Aires, La Plata, Tucumán and Rosario; in Brazil in the cities of Florianópolis, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo; Montréal, Canada; Mumbai, India; in the United States he exhibited in Atlanta, Chicago Miami, New York, Palm Beach and Washington; in Italy he showed his work in the cities of Livorno, Lucca, Milan and Viareggio; Switzerland, at Swissartexpo, Zurich and in the United Arab Emirates, he exhibited in Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah. He currently resides and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Statement
The urban profile of a city is like its DNA, a unique means of visual identification, an image so strong and iconic that it will remain in our memory forever. Each city is a mixture of architectural elements shaped over several centuries, which, combined with the peculiar topography of each site, tell the stories of its inhabitants, of how they have lived, worked or played.
In the segMOments project, I propose a reflection on the city and the current ways of contemplating it; It is a contemporary portrait of the city that does not show a static profile but rather acquires dynamism and allows us to see a different picture from second to second.
Space and time are formal axes of this photographic production, to which I include an architectural and urban perspective, questioning myself and also the viewer about how a city should be observed, what would be the virtuous way? Under the sunlight? A night vision? Or through all of them? I work as an archaeologist of time studying the moments of the day, valuing them as aesthetic elements that could lead to a refinement of the power of observation under the idea that a city cannot be fully seen if it is separated from the passage of time.
The fragmentation of the horizons dividing the images with vertical cuts generates a different way of looking that contains the visual presence of time in constant evolution; a concretized temporary utopia, projected as a photographic installation, which invites the viewer to reflect and actively contemplate. This thoughtful look at the communion of urban architecture and the environment traversed by time establishes a dialogue between man and his ecosystem, a habitat of integration that deserves to be contemplated.
