Photographs by Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunert – ‘Dante’ project

These photographs by Kai-Uwe Schulte-Bunert are part of a project entitled ‘Dante – A Farmer’ (2019/2021).

Kai describes the project as follows:

“Dante lives in the countryside of Poviglio, in the province of Reggio Emilia, and for almost thirty years, since his parents passed away, he has been running the small farm where he moved with his family at the age of six.

He appreciates the freedom he enjoys and would not give up his life for anything.

But now, at the age of 64, he has to leave his home, his land and give up his farming business.

I was interested in recounting an extremely consistent and conscious life trajectory, guided by a constant search for independence from the obligations of dependent work, social conventions or family conditioning.

These are values that I share, and they have allowed me to interpret this work in a profound way.

With this project, the photographer accompanies Dante in his last year of work, with the intention of leaving a document that bears witness to a form of agriculture that is disappearing along with its oldest representatives.

The photographs on display are respectively:

a beautiful series depicting three landscapes:

one represents a road that fades into the horizon, giving continuity to the image; then there are the pole and the electric wires, as graphic details that punctuate the scene
the other depicts the farmhouse immersed in the whiteness and silence of the snow; here too we find graphic details such as the tree, which interrupts the whiteness of the image, and the electricity cable and pole;
Finally, there is a poetic, delicate and refined image of a landscape with ears of corn and sky, also punctuated by poles and electric wires…

The other series consists of four images, in 32 x H 46.5 format; each one depicts a window with wooden shutters, clearly belonging to an old house.

Small details, such as the crooked shutter and some pieces of wood leaning against the wall, distinguish one from the other.

All these images have a very unique graphic appearance, with neutral, dusty colours. They have a strong sense of authenticity and a flavour of the past, yet made contemporary by the photographer’s interpretation, which makes them unique and refined works… perhaps also due to the particular choice of inkjet printing on matt paper.

The photographs are ethereal, textured and have an appearance that makes them “paintings depicting reality”.

The frame is made of wood.

Photographs are on sale at our showroom.

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