graphite drawing on expanded PVC and mineral pigmented inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Baryta 300g paper
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125.0 x 123.0 (cm)
49.2 x 48.4 (inch)
7.6 kg
The series Gigantica Amazonica has as a starting point an immersion trip that Moscheta took trough the Amazon. In the series, the artist works with photographs by Albert Frisch, creating a game of fiction on the monumentality of the Amazonian botany. Moscheta makes digital assemblages over Frisch’s photos, adding gigantic foliage over them. Beside the photos, the artist shows a "real-size" drawing of the leaf that appears in the images. The story of Frisch himself flirts with fiction. Born in 1840 in Bavaria, the photographer was, until the end of the 20th century, a mysterious personage of Brazilian photography and many assumed that he had never existed. Frisch made, in 1867, a series of 98 photographs in the Amazon, from an expedition in the region.
