Masterfully challenges traditional academic environments by converting a wild open-air woodland into an authoritarian, architectural statement within the discipline of international contemporary landscape photography collections. Part of Salvatore Arnone’s critically acclaimed Paranoia series—built specifically as the first chapter of a larger work exploring recurring themes of disenchantment, melancholy, and a personal idea of beauty—this unique physical creation treats a premium Hahnemühle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth paper substrate as an analytical laboratory for spatial dynamics, letting raw light gradients, organic vegetation captured between 2014 and 2021, and strict environmental proportions converge without the restrictions of a rigid decorative artifice. The horizontal arrangement tracks a powerful graphic rhythm where the centralized dense jungle texture splits the frame, transforming the interaction between representative constraints and contemporary isolation into an undeniable architectural gravity.
Paranoia is the first chapter of a larger work that explores some of the recurring themes in the artist's work: disenchantment, melancholy, and his own personal idea of beauty. The images were collected between 2014 and 2021 on different occasions, while he was working on his fashion editorials or traveling the world, and were organized (and often edited and post-produced) just a few years later.
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Contemporary Landscape Photography - Forest, 2018. By Salvatore Arnone
Forest, 2018
From Paranoia series
Digital print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Ultra Smooth
Limited Edition
Unframed
Production time is 2 to 3 weeks.
Italian artist Salvatore Arnone lives and works in Paris since 2014. After a debut of career as an engineer, he moved into jewelry design and worked for different brands around the world for almost 10 years. Despite this immersion in the creative field, at some point he felt the need to dedicate himself solely to photography and focus on his own vision. In 2010 he got published for the first time on Vanity Fair Italia and over the years his work has been displayed on several magazines and exhibitions all over the world. From the age of 25, he began to experience progressive hearing loss due to genetic cellular degeneration that forced him to use hearing aids. The lack of one sense deeply affected his perception of the world around him and his social relationships pushing him to a slow but constant process of self isolation that is well visible in all his production.
