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Talent of the Year 2020 - NOMINEE: Vincenzo Pagliuca
Alpine Wall
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In the years leading up to the Second World War the whole Alpine area was involved in the building of a complex system of fortifications wanted by the dictator Benito Mussolini to protect the Italian border against the neighboring countries.
A section of this defensive system, named Alpine Wall, was located along the border with Austria. Here, with an incalculable waste of resources, was completed the construction of about 350 bunkers. A huge architectural heritage that remained covered by military secrecy until 1993, year in which the structures were definitively decommissioned. At that time some of the bunkers were bought by private citizens and converted into agricultural deposits, others were demolished or definitively abandoned.
Today these spectacular structures continue to generate interest for their architectural characteristics and for the relationship they have established with the natural contexts in which they are situated.
About author:
Vincenzo Pagliuca was born in Italy in 1980. His artistic intention is to express through photography the personal perception of places he finds extraordinary, especially bringing the attention to rural and suburban Italian locations. With certain places he establishes a connection over time, a long-term dialogue from which a strongly internalized vision of landscapes and architectures springs.
His work has been featured in museums and festivals such as: Copenhagen Photo Festival, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Centro Italiano della Fotografia d’Autore (Bibbiena), Arcos Museum (Benevento), Galleria del Cembalo (Rome), Villa Pignatelli – Casa della Fotografia and MADRE Museum (Naples), Ulster Museum (Belfast). From 2015 to 2017 he has been member of Lab \ per un laboratiorio irregolare. In 2020 it is published his first photobook ‘Napoli Nord • Case Rom’ by The Velvet Cell.
A section of this defensive system, named Alpine Wall, was located along the border with Austria. Here, with an incalculable waste of resources, was completed the construction of about 350 bunkers. A huge architectural heritage that remained covered by military secrecy until 1993, year in which the structures were definitively decommissioned. At that time some of the bunkers were bought by private citizens and converted into agricultural deposits, others were demolished or definitively abandoned.
Today these spectacular structures continue to generate interest for their architectural characteristics and for the relationship they have established with the natural contexts in which they are situated.
About author:
Vincenzo Pagliuca was born in Italy in 1980. His artistic intention is to express through photography the personal perception of places he finds extraordinary, especially bringing the attention to rural and suburban Italian locations. With certain places he establishes a connection over time, a long-term dialogue from which a strongly internalized vision of landscapes and architectures springs.
His work has been featured in museums and festivals such as: Copenhagen Photo Festival, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Centro Italiano della Fotografia d’Autore (Bibbiena), Arcos Museum (Benevento), Galleria del Cembalo (Rome), Villa Pignatelli – Casa della Fotografia and MADRE Museum (Naples), Ulster Museum (Belfast). From 2015 to 2017 he has been member of Lab \ per un laboratiorio irregolare. In 2020 it is published his first photobook ‘Napoli Nord • Case Rom’ by The Velvet Cell.