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Inkjet print
cm 48 x 34 (cm 33 x 26,2 picture) | 18.9 x 13.4 in. (13 x 10.3 in. picture)
Signed and dated in black ink on the white inferior recto margin
Giovanni Gastel (Milan 1955 - 2021) was born into a family where nobility is also expressed in the love of art. Self-taught, in the early 1970s he worked for Christie's, but in 1981 his meeting with his future agent Carla Ghiglieri, who introduced him to the world of fashion, turned his career around, leading him to work for Vogue Italia and then, thanks to Flavio Lucchini and Gisella Borioli, with Mondo Uomo e Donna. In the 1980s and 1990s he signed prestigious international advertising campaigns, but he also decided to devote himself to personal research where he experimented in the artistic field with the themes of the figure, portrait, and still life already widely used in commissioned work. The major solo shows in Milan curated by Germano Celant and the one at MAXXI in Rome certified him as a well-rounded author.
cm 48 x 34 (cm 33 x 26,2 picture) | 18.9 x 13.4 in. (13 x 10.3 in. picture)
Signed and dated in black ink on the white inferior recto margin
Giovanni Gastel (Milan 1955 - 2021) was born into a family where nobility is also expressed in the love of art. Self-taught, in the early 1970s he worked for Christie's, but in 1981 his meeting with his future agent Carla Ghiglieri, who introduced him to the world of fashion, turned his career around, leading him to work for Vogue Italia and then, thanks to Flavio Lucchini and Gisella Borioli, with Mondo Uomo e Donna. In the 1980s and 1990s he signed prestigious international advertising campaigns, but he also decided to devote himself to personal research where he experimented in the artistic field with the themes of the figure, portrait, and still life already widely used in commissioned work. The major solo shows in Milan curated by Germano Celant and the one at MAXXI in Rome certified him as a well-rounded author.
If anyone had expected classic images in the sense of traditional, it would have been useless to turn to Giovanni Gastel who, instead, preferred to convey to his photographs a dynamism and liveliness that made them unique. This characterized him both when he carried out personal research as in this portrait which, while changing the shape of the face, retains its elegance, and when he worked on commission. For the magazine Donna he creates another type of portrait where only the reference to the features of the elegant profile remains of the model while the face is superimposed soft plumage that surprisingly ends up enhancing the whole.
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