Carlo Valsecchi

Main exhibition

Overwhelming industrial architecture; cranes, pipes, cables and piled up objects; high-tech laboratories; broad areas of South-American agri-food sector… The Italian photographer Carlo Valsecchi alters close-ups with distant views. His large-sized images devoid of humans seem to float between documentary and abstraction. Resulting from long and carefully calculated exposure, they offer an unusual point of view that disturbs our perception and invites us to actively interact with the image.

Although his work is partially rooted in the industrial landscape tradition developed by the German school, Carlo Valsecchi has paved his own way by making images that sometimes lean towards the monochromatic. His production reveals acute awareness and particular sensitivity to colour. The photographer’s palette is smooth and withheld.

The exhibition covers ten years’ of photographic work. Thanks to the generous support of the Cercle des Amis du Musée de l’Elysée, a publication in French and in English has been published by Hatje Cantz. The exhibition and the publication have also received support from the GF Group and from the collection Elena et Fausto Radici.