Two old friends - Félix Curto

Color photographic print on 100% cotton Hahnemühle Glossy Fine Art 315 gm paper

Sheet size 59.4x42 cm

Print size 50x34 cm

Ed. 15 signed and numbered

2008

In Curto's photographs, the idea of travel is explored in both its physical and imaginary dimensions: motels, old cars, highways, and landscapes are recurring motifs in his work. His images not only recount the artist's physical journeys, but also the inner ones that take place within him.
In this journey, travel and life "on the road" are the most evident themes, but Beat poetry and American music of the 1950s and 1960s are also intertwined. Curto observes the world as if he were a visitor for a single day after the catastrophe, as in this photographic series. He scrutinizes the space around him with attentive and intense listening, a dogged collector of fragments of times and places.
His photographs – understood as true albums of his personal passions – are subject to continuous variations, in the awareness that this is one of the tensions of the art of our time, as if waiting to conclude cycles that, in their becoming, capture the gaze and attention.