Robert Polidori
His large pictorial color photographs lead the viewer into a suspended dimension where stories overlap, revealing a pattern of the gradual passage of time.
works
Detail of the Salottino Pompeiano, painted by Antonio Niccolini, Capodimonte Museum, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 163 x 131 cm, ed. 10
Tree Fresco, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Peacock Room, detail #1, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Tree Fresco, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Peacock Room, detail #2, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
The Killing of Neoptolemus Fresco, House of Marco Lucretius Frontone, Pompeii, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Bird and Figs Fresco panel, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Bird and Figs Fresco panel, detail, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Villa dei Misteri, detail #2, Pompeii, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Villa dei Misteri, detail #3, Pompeii, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 90 x 73 cm, ed. 10
House of Marco Lucretius Frontone, Pompeii, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, 90 x 73 cm, ed. 10
Narcissus Fresco, House of Marco Lucretius Frontone, Pompeii, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Peacock Room, detail #3, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Basket of Figs, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Villa dei Misteri, detail #1, Pompeii, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Hercules Fresco, Villa of Poppaea, Oplontis, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Villa dei Misteri #1, Pompeii, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Piscina Mirabilis #1, Bacoli, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 163 x 131 cm, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di Santa Luciella, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Piscina Mirabilis #2, Bacoli, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, 90 x 73 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista delle Monache, Naples, 2018, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Casa di Romagnano al Monte, Salerno, 2018, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di Santa Maria Vertecoeli, Naples, 2018, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista delle Monache, Naples, 2018, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di Romagnano al Monte, Salerno, 2018, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa della Disciplina della Santa Croce, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa della Disciplina della Santa Croce, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Cripta della Chiesa di Sant’ Agostino alla Zecca, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Cripta della Chiesa di Sant’ Agostino alla Zecca, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di Santa Luciella, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, 90 x 73 cm, ed. 10
Sacro Tempio della Scorziata, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di Gesù e Maria, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 133,5 x 108 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di San Potito, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
Chiesa di San Potito, Naples, 2017, archival pigment print mounted to Dibond, 108 x 133,5 cm, ed. 10
video
Devotion Abandoned
Italy, 2018, 2’
catalogue
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Robert Polidori was born in Montreal in 1951 and has lived in California since 2015. He began his career in New York in avant-garde film making assisting Jonas Mekas in the Anthology Film Archives, an experience which had a profound impact on his approach to photography.
When he lived in Paris in the early 1980s, he began documenting the restoration of Versailles and has continued to photograph the ongoing transformations of the site for over 30 years. He has developed photographic projects in Havana, Chernobyl and documented the flooding in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and exhibited the resulting photographs at the Metropolitan Museum in New York. In his most recent projects, he has focused his attention on urban growth by photographing urban aggregates with very complex structures in continuous architectural and demographic expansion including Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro and Amman.
Polidori has exhibited in public and private venues all over the world, has received numerous awards and recognition and his works are in the collections of the most important international museums such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Musée d'art contemporain in Montréal, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. In 1998, he won the World Press Photo Award.
He has been working with Studio Trisorio since 2017.
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Robert Polidori è nato a Montréal nel 1951. Dal 2015 vive e lavora in California. Ha iniziato la sua carriera a New York nel cinema d'avanguardia, assistendo Jonas Mekas negli Anthology Film Archives, un'esperienza che ha segnato il suo approccio alla fotografia.
Mentre viveva a Parigi nei primi anni Ottanta ha iniziato a documentare il restauro di Versailles e ha continuato per oltre 30 anni a fotografare le trasformazioni del sito. Ha realizzato progetti fotografici a L' Avana, a Chernobyl e ha documentato le conseguenze dell'allagamento dopo l'uragano Katrina a New Orleans esponendo queste fotografie al Metropolitan Museum di New York. Nei suoi ultimi progetti Polidori si è focalizzato sulla crescita urbana fotografando aggregati urbani con strutture molto complesse e in continua espansione architettonica e demografica, tra cui Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro e Amman.
Ha esposto in spazi pubblici e privati in tutto il mondo, ha ricevuto numerosi premi e riconoscimenti ed è nelle collezioni dei più prestigiosi musei internazionali come il MoMA e il Metropolitan Museum di New York, il Victoria and Albert Museum di Londra, il Centre Pompidou di Parigi, il Musée d'art contemporain di Montréal, il Walker Art Center di Minneapolis e il Paul Getty Museum di Los Angeles. Nel 1998 ha vinto il World Press Photo.
Collabora con lo Studio Trisorio dal 2017.