Monica Carocci Biography
Monica Carocci is an Italian photographer born in Rome in 1966. She currently lives and works in Turin. Throughout his artistic career, he stands out for his continuous experimentation and search for unexpected and unconventional artistic languages.
During the 80s and 90s, Monica Carocci was formed in the Italian cultural context. In this period, contemporary art is questioned for its ability to represent the great transformations of the period, such as the digital revolution, globalization and political debate. Through his vision of urban infrastructures and everyday objects, the artist emerges as an expression of that period, translating his point of view into emotional geometries distant from objective reality.
Monica Carocci's artistic work does not focus on the technical and formal perfection of photography, but on the final image, the result of subsequent pictorial manipulations, abrasions, additions, deletions and chromatic variations. The portrayed subject therefore undergoes a sort of metamorphosis generated by the artist's process of mental abstraction.
By adopting a rigorous choice of black and white, Monica Carocci's shots aim to focus attention on the essentiality of the external message, discarding the details that usually accompany the overall frame. The abrasion of the contours erases a part of details considered superfluous, the calibrated introduction of shades incorporates overlapping errors.
His work ranges across many themes, from the geometric and symmetrical representation of the urban environment to the human figure, portraits, natural landscapes and animals. Monica Carocci has exhibited and performed in galleries, art fairs and museums around the world, including the 88 Room Gallery in Boston, the Louisiana Museum in Denmark and the MAXXI Museum in Rome.
