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Firebergs Series Cold 23 Th’ Ann Am Pròiseact Dealbh Àrainneachd by Patrizia Dottori

Firebergs Series Cold 23 Th’ Ann Am Pròiseact Dealbh Àrainneachd by Patrizia Dottori is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 Duais Airgid A' Design Award in Dealbhadh Dealbhadaireachd agus Atharrachadh Dhealbhan Competition Category.


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Firebergs Series Cold 23 Th’ Ann Am Pròiseact Dealbh Àrainneachd

by Patrizia Dottori

Client: PatIsHere

Duais Airgid A' Design Award Winner in Dealbhadaireachd Category

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The Design

About Firebergs Series Cold 23 Th’ Ann Am Pròiseact Dealbh Àrainneachd

Tha pròiseact an neach-ealain co-cheangailte ri cuspair an-diugh aig cridhe aire na cruinne an dà chuid aig ìre institiùideach agus àireamh-sluaigh: an àrainneachd. Anns na h-ìomhaighean seo is e an deigh agus a leaghadh am prìomh eileamaid. Chruthaich an neach-ealain e tro thionndadh cromatach bho adhartach gu àicheil, a tha aig an aon àm ris a 'bheachd air atharrachadh, a' riochdachadh fìrinn eile: bidh an deigh na theine, bidh na sgàinidhean gu bhith na bholcàno. Stoidhle ùr a dh'innseas an duilgheadas le bhith a' dèanamh anailis air Eigh-shruth Perito Moreno.

The Recognition

About the Duais Airgid A' Design Award

Tha Firebergs Series Cold 23 Th’ Ann Am Pròiseact Dealbh Àrainneachd air Duais Airgid A' Design Award a bhuannachadh, aithneachadh gu math urramach a bheirear do dhealbhaidhean den chiad ìre, àlainn agus drùidhteach. Tha buannaichean Airgid nan obraichean anabarrach boillsgeach agus gu math cruthachail a nochdas sàr-eòlas, tàlant agus geurchuis an luchd-dealbhaidh. Thathar an dùil gum bi Firebergs Series Cold 23 Th’ Ann Am Pròiseact Dealbh Àrainneachd na obair mhìorbhaileach, na sàr-eisimpleir a tha gu sònraichte proifeiseanta agus gu domhainn ùr-ghnàthach. Tha an dealbhadh seo a bhuannaich Duais Airgid A' Design Award na innleachd glè fhaicsinneach, ion-mholta a bhrosnaicheas crìochan ealain, saidheans, dealbhaidh agus teicneolais. Tha Firebergs Series Cold 23 Th’ Ann Am Pròiseact Dealbh Àrainneachd na chruthachadh air a bheil mòran eud, a dhùisgeas miannan, a bheir faireachdainnean math agus a thogas iongnadh is miorbhail.

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties
Project on the environment with ice as the primary element and its melting. Made through the chromatic inversion from positive to negative, which coincides with the concept of change, representing an opposite reality, fire and volcano. A surreal journey of unsettling images to tell the Perito Moreno Glacier in an absolutely unique way.
Dimensions & Packaging
The print dimensions are 100 x 70cm. to which is added a 5 cm black frame of depth.
Some shots have been printed to be exhibited in various exhibitions, on warm photographic paper in order to enhance the colours.
Tags
climatecrisis, environment, water, fire, volcano, glacier, cracks, volcaniclava, meltingglaciers, photography
Production Technology
The images were taken with a professional camera, Nikon D200, then post-production was performed with Adobe Photoshop and Camera raw to achieve the chromatic inversion.
Design Challenge
To photographically represent environmental issues, I climbed up one side of the Perito Moreno Glacier. There I associated cold with heat, which is the element that melts ice. Thanks to the knowledge of printing techniques, I imagined the solution in the inversion from positive to negative: this is how the glacier becomes a volcano, its lava cracks and the photographic solution reflects its concept, focusing attention on possible solutions.
Research
The research concerns a new way of narrating the problem of the environment to bring users closer to looking at the issue from a different point of view. I verified the chromatic inversion method on the spot using a Nokia mobile phone that shot directly in the negative and then I took the images with the professional camera that I worked in post-production. During the exhibitions people were very attracted by the visual impact.
Inspiration
Inspired by the glacier itself, with its blue cracks becoming tongues of fire, volcanic lava. Representing Nature with surreal images and using chromatic inversion to emphasize the concept of "negative" both as a technical meaning and as a conceptual meaning.
Project Duration
The project was born at the end of 2007 on the Perito Moreno Glacier, Argentina. It is a work in progress on the environment. To date it has been exhibited in 2008 at the Tarahan-Azad Art Gallery in Tehran, in 2011 at the Centro Cultural Borges in Buenos Aires, in 2013 at the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires, in 2015 at Galleria Spazio 88 and at Studio Arte Fuori Downtown Rome. New images are currently being worked on.
Operation Flow
This work, divided into series to create a path of reading and imagination, immediately evokes a volcano. A closer look, for example in image n.1, where the water seems to enter the lava, or in the images of the Walls and Scraps Series, creates a doubt and the observer wonders whether it is a volcano or of other. In unfolding, the positive-to-negative reversal, where heat burns ice, faces the issue of the climate crisis.
Patents
Copyrights belong to Patrizia Dottori, Year 2008.
Image Credits
Image #1: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Cold 23, 2008. Image #2: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Cold 12, 2008. Image #3: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Scraps 2, 2008. Image #4: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Walls 2, 2008. Image #5: Photographer Patrizia Dottori, FireBergs Series Walls 5, 2008.

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