Guilherme Bergamini

Brazil

“Eddie Adams, Saigon, 1968”

Color Reproduction of drawings inspired by photographs 

30x45cm 

2020

Artist Statement:

Color / Reproduction of drawings inspired by photographs / 30x45cm / 2020. The series consists of the appropriation of eight iconic photographs, which marked an era and make history for their social and political relevance. At the Belo Horizonte International Photography Festival (FIF-BH), in 2013, I had the opportunity to get to know the work “Most popular of all time”, done by English photographers Clare Strand and Gordon Macdonald, which brought these historic images in format monochrome designs with numbered dots and lines. A didactic format, which refers to my childhood drawing games, connecting dots and numbers, giving shape to the drawing, like those children's activity magazines. I showed these images to my four-year-old daughter Malu and proposed to her to color each drawing as if it were more of a homework assignment, in her time and disposition. The purity of a child in coloring without visually knowing the original photographs in their contexts and authors provided a beautiful result, giving new meaning to each of these historical moments. In this experience of confinement and social isolation, due to the pandemic of the new coronavirus (COVID-19), in 2020, reinventing is a unique and particular necessity for each one of us.

Bio:

Reporter photographic and visual artist, Guilherme Bergamini is Brazilian and graduated in Journalism. For more than two decades, he has developed projects with photography and the various narrative possibilities that art offers. The works of the artist dialogue between memory and social political criticism. He believes in photography as the aesthetic potential and transforming agent of society. Awarded in national and international competitions, Guilherme Bergamini participated in collective exhibitions in 30 countries.