The Galleria Browning is pleased to inaugurate the new 2013/2014 programme with ‘Sonbahar’ the first international exhibition of the Brazilian photographer Daniel Marques.

The exhibition presents a series of a kind of monotype of dried leaves collected by photographer in various parks and squares of his city, São Paulo, since 2010. This printing method is a process that makes each “image” unique, as many leaves (matrices) will perish when used in the ink transfer process.

The impression is made on Japanese paper, to which the author is personally attached after having grown up in Liberdade, a neighborhood with a large Japanese community.

Everything in this project, the use of fallen leaves, the black and White tones, the delicate printing paper, the printing process and the title itself – ‘Sonbahar’which in Turkish means Fall - communicates the sense of the transience and hopelessness of time.

Beside these engravings, the exhibition shows a series of urban landscapes photographed in black and white, and printed on the same Japanese paper. The images are taken with a pinhole camera that Daniel Marques has built himself, using special filters to increase the turbidity of the landscape. The effect produced by these images seen side by side gives shape to a new emotional landscape. As the author says: «My personal research has a strong relationship with the city where I live - a city that is very large and dispersed - and with its architecture. This photographic project portrays some city parks, without identifying them, thus leaving the viewer free to imagine the places».

Daniel Marques possesses a lyrical vision, soaked with highly personal notes that are echos of his family, his memories, and his human experience of the city and its neighborhood. All the work of the Brazilian photographer manifests this desire to understand and to love his place, his hometown, and to find the poetry and beauty even in its most obscure, uncertain and contradictory features. His research is strongly influenced by literature, an indispensable reference for the author that is evidenced by several pages of his diary being included in the exhibition. For this reason the opening will feature the literature teacher Anna Branciforti who will recite lyrics inspired by Autumn and Daniel Marques’s work.

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