Artificial Infinite

• Photographer
  Fernando Maselli

Edmund Burke, on his book The Sublime and the Beautiful, pragmatically examines certain physical aspects of nature and its effects on the mind, to try to explain the situations that produce in a man the sense of sublimity. Maselli appropriates some of these concepts to develop his own investigation into the sublime, elements such the immensity, the darkness, the vastness, the infinite serve to recreate imaginary landscapes using complex photomontages composed of fragments of previously photographed natural ranges. These serie is the sum of a conceptual and physical labor, in which the artist lives close to the essence of the virgin nature, and where he manages to instill in to the viewer the experience of the sublime, starting from an invented nature, which is artificial but also infinite.