Microcities

Matteo Procaccioli captures the complex passages between tradition, history and the present in photographs that only feature Man’s presence via the mark of human passage through the boundless voids of silent landscapes.

Matteo Procaccioli, Microcities
“Microcities” opens at Milan’s Museo della Permanente on 5 February and is “an ambitious and serial project taking a bird’s eye view of the landscape.” writes critic Luca Beatrice.
“In the era of the drone, light years after the 19th-century exploits of Nadar and far removed from cameras strapped onto homing pigeons and kites, Procaccioli illustrates a now-familiar perspective but one that conserves the romanticism of a hot-balloon flight.
Matteo Procaccioli, Microcities
Matteo Procaccioli, Microcities

We have grown accustomed to Google Maps, satellite views and flight but, with their pictorial undertones, these landscapes feature abstract forms and signs that almost eliminate the identity of every shot, making them seem fictitious.

“Microcities” is an aerial atlas, the first to move like a modern globetrotter from the Po Valley to Cairo, from the French countryside to Casablanca, from the desert regions of Iran and Iraq to the golf courses of central Italy, from Naples to Miami and from Shenzhen to Dubai, passing via Rome, Hong Kong and the suburbs of Madrid. There is no ideal city, there is no difference and there is no localism. Here, the focus is the silence and void of micro-landscapes lacking all human signs: houses, buildings, rivers, embankments, mountains; there is no nature or urbanisation, no technology or progress. There are curves, lines, dots, geometric and boundless forms, repetitions of colour and light and dark, all traced on a planisphere perused far and wide. From this angle, the world looks small, a microscopic collection of the fabrics that progress has traced on its surface.”

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