Impersonalism

The young photographer Luca Arena reads Tenerife, one of the Canary islands, as if it was uninhabited to underline its colors and the architectures geometries.

Impersonalism: Tenerife is a photographic project made in 2016 during a 7-day trip in the island of the Canaries. The purpose of this project is the attempt to achieve near-zero the presence of people on the island through a non-anthropocentric approach to the environment, highlighting the colors and shapes of architectural structures.

Here, typically Spanish living styles, with flat-roofed houses, white or brightly colored blend with the need to want to represent, at least hypothetically, the urban sprawl of the great European capital, with modern tourist residences, impersonal and very similar to each other built in the middle of unspoiled places or at the very tourist beach resorts.

The passing travelers were oblivious to the fact that the buildings are all the same, being able to enjoy the security in having found that provision of sufficient space to them. Although limited, this phenomenon tends to occur especially in suburban areas, and between the main effects is impossible not to detect a high consumption of the soil and, consequently, a reduction of green spaces. Due to the relentless and accelerating pace of expansion of cities and the demand for new buildings, the buildings tend to be similar to each other, characterized by the extreme homogeneity and by a predominantly uniform design environment built.

Every city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order and distances. The desire to escape completely from these stylistic choices, translates into an intimate investigation, on one hand of the acceptance as now present on the other in the refuge in places not-places consisting of linear geometries, reassuring and familiar as a soccer field or a swimming pool overlooking the sea in a small village of Spanish fishermen.

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016. Garachico’ Swimming Pool

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016.

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016.

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016. Auditorio de Tenerife “Adán Martín” di Santiago Calatrava

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016. Sprawl, El Medano

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016. Santiago del Teide

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016. Garachico

Luca Arena, Impersonalism: Tenerife, 2016. Repsol Gas Station

Luca Arena (1988) was born on the first Spring day at 9:00. He is a color-blind person since 28 years and every day tries to deal with it. He graduated in Economy and Marketing at Pisa University. His photographic work is focused on buildings and windows, architecture geometries and colors. His work has been exhibited in several group and solo shows.

Impersonalism

The young photographer Luca Arena reads Tenerife, one of the Canary islands, as if it was uninhabited to underline its colors and the architectures geometries.

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