| GUIDO ALBI MARINI |
Born in Naples, Italy, Guido Albi Marini studied photography
under Giovanni Thermes, and was encouraged to begin exhibiting
his work by Domitilla Sartorio, head of the Benetton Art
Academy. His photographs have been shown in Miami, New
York, Santiago del Chile, and at ARCO in Madrid. They are also
included in numerous collections, among them, the Cisneros
Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, the Fondazione Annali
dell’Architettura, Naples, Italy, and DC Corretora, Rio de Janeiro.
Albi Marini is known for his life-size color photographs of female
store mannequins, dramatically illuminated and in sharp focus.
Shown at close range and from intimate angles, the heads of
these body-doubles seem psychologically inhabited, yet do not
return the viewer’s gaze. Albi Marini gives each of these "portraits"
a name, adding to the unsettling sense that they are
somehow alive. Claudette 01, Claudette 02 and Claudette 03 are
part of Albi Marini’s series entitled Body Doubles, which was
exhibited in New York and Miami in 2003.
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