Entry Title: " Colliders"
Name: Luca Casonato, Italy
Category: Professional, Industrial


Entry Description: The 20th century vigorously expanded the concept of artwork. I am convinced that in the near future the enclosure surrounding what may be defined as a “work of art� will become still more all-embracing, to the point of welcoming creations produced by the most extreme human technical-scientific skills, albeit with no aesthetic ambition or concessions to design. Set on the horizon is my project “Colliders�, a photographic documentation of particle accelerators.
There are infinitely large structures built to study the infinitely small. To photograph these particles accelerators I mainly chose to adopt perspectives with a central point of view, which seems intended to reveal all to the observer.
“Colliders� is a photographic elegy on the refinement of machines and technology.

Luca was born in San Donà di Piave (Venice) in 1977. After taking a degree in building engineering in 2003, he specializes in photography with the “Course in technologies and language of contemporary photography” at Centro Bauer (Milan) in 2005. In 2008 he takes part to the “Voice OFF” of the Photographic Biennal in Krakow. In 2007 with “Beautiful cities” he is finalist at the photographic prize “Italian atlas 007 landscape danger” held by the Ministry of Arts and Culture and by DARC – Department of Architecture and Contemporary Art. Always in 2007 he gains a mention on “laBUD: the social spaces of the vertical cities”, San Donà di Piave (Venice); he wins in the photographic section of the prize MunixWebArt held by the web magazine Namir and by the Municipality of Rome. In 2006 he wins a photographic competition “A click on the suburbs” held by the Bertold Brecht Centre (Milan). In 2006 he is finalist at the Visual Art Prize at Gallery San Fedele (Milan). In 2005 he gains a mention in “Netshot”, a photographic web prize organised by the Museum of Contemporary Photography (Milan). In 2004 he edits the re-exhibition of “In the other towns” by Gabriele Basilico at the Design Center in San Donà di Piave (Venice). He actually works together with some architectural magazines as “Ottagono”, “Rassegna”, “Progetti”, “Décor Living”, and teaches at a graduate professional school for digital photography in Milan. Solo Exhibition 2006, “All around the city of Milan by Emilio Tadini”, XII Festa dell’Arte, San Donà di Piave, Venice 2005, “TrashScape”, Fastweb Foyer, Milan 2004, “The sweet factory”, Ceggia , Venice 2003, “Landscape of dispersion”, Studio Arkema, Portogruaro, Venice 2003, “Spherical nightly”, spazio Juliet, Casier di Treviso, Venice 2001, “1/10.000.000 of the world”, San Donà di Piave, Venice Main group exhibition 2007, “Italian atlas 007 landscape danger”, MAXXI, Rome 2007, “Beyond the landscape”, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Florence 2007, “One first shot 2006”, Galleria Bel Vedere, Milan 2006, “The trip”, Art Gallery San Fedele, Milan