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andrea zanatta was born in Treviso the more he succeeds in making us per- allows him to characterize in a unique
on the September 3, 1967. Since child- ceive reality in a different way: in that way even parts of the world and events,
hood he has shown a great interest in the variation, however small, resides his which have been the subjects of other art-
world of art. He has visited exhibitions poetic vein, his style.” And if style signi- ists’ photos. This happens because each
and museums, in an attempt to under- fies the thoughts of an artist about the artist infuses his work with his own life
stand what art is and, above all, what world, then Andrea Zanatta is an artist. experience, and his own vision of the
distinguishes a “normal” person from an These thoughts cannot be the world.
artist. He wanted to be an artist but he same as another person’s because, other- By looking at his photographs
did not feel like one. wise, they would already be portrayed in we understand his poetic vein, which is
After his first disappointing attempts at a previous photograph, and there would not expressed by focusing on a precise
painting, which did not satisfy his thirst be no reason for taking that photograph subject matter, because life is expressed in
to express himself, he was struck by a again. many different forms. As a result, Andrea
phrase written by the Spanish writer San- A photograph, if it is a work loves taking photographs of the coun-
tiago Ramon Y Cajal, who says: “The of art, offers us a different view of the tryside, taking portraits, photographing
camera lens alone can satiate the thirst world. By means of a photograph we see architecture, still life events, in a press
for beauty for those who, born artists, the world as we have never seen it before. fashion, because he says “everything
have not had the time to practice their For this reason, each artist is which is around us is part of and is also
art methodically, to the point where they different from any other, because his style the essence of life”.
become ‘maestros’ of the paintbrush and I believe that in photography
the palette.” he has found the way to liberate his feel-
This sentence almost seemed to ings and to express himself uncondition-
justify Andrea’s inability to paint and ally. Andrea Zanatta’s photographs con-
gave him the necessary strength to try tain the primeval instinct of the cave
photography with new and unexpected painters; that necessity which makes pho-
energy. He thus found in photography the tography a physiological need, maybe
answer to his questions on the subject of because it satisfies the need to leave a
“real” art. How can one be original and trace of himself for posterity and there-
create a new piece of work and therefore fore acquire a form of immortality, but,
be a “real artist” when everything seems above all, because it is essential in order
to have already been said, invented or to “live” and not to “survive”.
photographed? V. Sgarbi, an Italian art It is perhaps the exceeding vari-
critic says: “a new work of art exists ety of his subjects, which expresses his,
when we see in it a different way of pHoToGR apH BY AnDReA zAnAT TA© will to overcome any obstacle and to
perceiving reality. If we are used to per- knock down any barrier, of participating
ceiving reality in accordance with certain in any manifestation of life.
models, when we discover a new artist we Andrea Zanatta is living and
will know that that artist is the greater working in Venice at the moment.

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