“Alpha City #02”
Alpha City #02
(SKU. 10995)
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Date
2018/2022 -
Technique
printing on 100% cotton paper and aluminum adhesive -
Dimensions
(H x W x D) 112 x 150 x 4 cm -
Edition
15 + 2PA -
Comes with certificate of authenticity
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"Comparing photographs of São Paulo, I was surprised to realize that the city has in fact become more wooded only in the last 50 years. I also realized that disorganized progress, combined with the schizophrenia of Brazilian architecture, has caused the city of São Paulo to leave its expressive trees completely at the mercy of luck, man and time.
With this in mind, I developed Alpha Cities : perfect cities, metropolises built around the power of nature. Natural landscapes in their original form, right next to large buildings and dense populations. Each final image is composed of two different frames in order to create, even if only in two dimensions, the city that we could have actually built, efficient and in harmony with nature."
Lucas Lenci
Biography
Lucas Lenci
Lucas Lenci studied Industrial Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in São Paulo and Photography at the Panamerican School of Arts. He worked for many years producing images with important names in Brazilian and foreign photography, both for the advertising and editorial markets. In 2005, he lived for a while in New York, a period that had a great influence on his personal work.
His work has been exhibited in important institutions such as the Palais des Nations (Geneva), SESC Santana (São Paulo), the Novíssimas Escuelas Latinoamericanas de Fotografia Creativa (Madrid), and the Museu Brasileiro de Escultura (São Paulo). His book "Desaudioä (2013) was a finalist for the 2014 Jabuti Prize and third place in the Prix de la Photographie de Paris.
As an author, he has published four photobooks, all of which have been internationally acclaimed, having been launched in Paris and New York.
He created the "Quarentena Books" project, where 8 photographers and 8 designers created books remotely during quarantine, and whose profits were donated to communities most exposed to the pandemic.
He currently divides his time between working as an executive at the Stickel Foundation, a non-profit organization in São Paulo that promotes improvements in the education of the most vulnerable people through the arts.
Representative galleries
Mario Cohen Gallery , Sao Paulo
Destaques da carreira
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"Foz do Iguaçu", 2012 - da série "Desaudio".
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"Praia do Arpoardor, Rio de Janeiro", 2013 - da série "Desaudio".
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"Alpha Cities" | 2018 | Galeria de Babel, São Paulo.
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"Alpha Cities" | 2018 | Galeria de Babel, São Paulo
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"Still Life" | 2020 | Babel Gallery, Nova York, EUA
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"Still Life" | 2020 | Babel Gallery, Nova York, EUA
