Nicolò Gemin – Photo Bio
Nicolò Gemin was born in Venice in 1978, since childhood had always ventured
through a discovery of reality by the medium of photography, his father Massimo
Gemin, professor of art history at the University Ca 'Foscari of Venezia, gave him
his first Pentax when he was 11 years old. In 1999 he founded Blow Up with some
friends, a cultural association of visual arts, inspired by the sense that Antonioni
gave to the English word ( enlargement ) in his eponymous film, a fascinating
meditation on the gap ( if there is one ) between fantasy and reality. In 2002/2004
he was student at I.S.F.A.V. Professional Photography School in Padua. In
2004/2005 he becomes a teaching assistant in a photography course at IUAV,
University of Architecture of Venice. In the following years, and in the latter was
engaged in various assistantships, creative projects, collaborations and services to
architecture and interiors, weddings, still life, musical and luxury events.
" Often what we know or think we know about life surprises us greatly once we
approached to look for a better understanding. "
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" Then the certainties waver. Colors change. Forms are stabilized. People ... are
more ... persons. Everything takes on a new meaning accomplished, a different
consciousness from before. "
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" Visual field narrows and the reality is all around us, in that times we would
run away ........ but not this time ... no ... not this. "
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