Title: TOROS, THE MARKING OF A TERRITORY
Photographer(s): Maurizio Montagna
Writer(s): Ethel Baraona Pohl, Elisa C.Cattaneo
Designer(s): Nicolas Polli
Publisher(s): Artphilein editions, Lugano, Switzerland
Year: 2022
Print run: 400
Language(s): English
Pages: 352
Size: 21 x 27 cm
Binding: Softcover
Edition:
Print: Grafiche Aurora, Verona, Italy
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Spain, 2012 - 2021
ISBN: 9788894518689
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The unmistakable silhouette of the Osborne bull is so deeply rooted in our minds, it has become a vernacular object in photography: widely used in art and cinema, due to its widespread recognizability and the powerful image it evokes, they could be considered one of the most potent images of the recent decade. In Montagna’s photographies, the big Osborne signs an articulate and controversial dialogue with the surrounding areas. They become a means to describe the landscape, opening a diatribe with the social and natural environment and revealing the role of images as interference between public/and private, power/perception, politics and people. Montagna's images unveil the mechanisms of forming a disputable meaning in the landscape.