So–Milano presents Waiting for the drama

Do you remember Michele Bressan? We talked about the Italian photographer on the occasion of the presentation of the first issue of Edicola, where he was presented with his photographic series Waiting for the drama.

His particular taste for colors and digital virtuosity have also been noticed by the new Milan-based reality So-Milano, a space designed to be an exhibition space of the new dwelling kaleidoscopic codes and languages of contemporary fashion. The twelve beautiful windows on their store in Piazza Risorgimento, are now adorned by Michele Bressan’s shots of which you can have a preview in the gallery below.

We contacted Michele Bressan to find out more about this encounter between art and fashion.

#1 We have met you through the photographs of Waiting for the drama. Where and how did this idea has born?

As in my other projects, I wanted to represent an everyday routine, explore something accessible to everyone, like a movie theater. Usually, theater’s rooms are only known thanks to their function, always being portrayed with spectators. By photographing empty and illuminated cinemas, during the 'dead time’, a result of the break between the projections, it moves the center of interest, earning importance to these neutral spaces, making them the first time players. Spaces usually known in the dark, reveal their own visual and surprising  identity. The project becomes a memento, since the most photographed rooms doesn’t exist anymore. They closed or have been transformed to accommodate a different type of activity. All rooms are photographed in Bucharest, Romania. All state propriety, dating back to the 70s and 80s, failed because as obsolete equipment and design, especially compared to modern multiplex, Mall & Co.

#2 From Edicola to So-Milano, and your project exceeds honors in the transition from digital to print. What is your ideal size?

I photograph using film. The ideal size is the now with which I can propose the best level of detail. The series Waiting for the Drama was shot a in 6x7 format, getting the best prints to 80x65cm. Few other projects I realized, are made with large format equipment. The resulted prints from their 4x5 negatives, are a 100x80cm format, and are truly spectacular.

#3 Fashion meets photography on the windows of So - Milano, what do you think of this union?

Fashion is an aesthetic discourse, visual, such as photography and all art in general. I don’t see any conflict in it, just a happy symbiosis.

#4 We know that your new book is going to be released soon. What can you tell us about your future projects?

My last project is called RAPI (Romanian Archeological Photography Index) and is about the link between landscape and history. During the period 2014 -2017, we photographed remote areas of Romania, areas where during the First and Second World War, there was activity. From these areas, we have recovered several artifacts that confirm the story, creating a three-dimensionality of the landscape via a bridge between space, time and memory. My new book, RAPI, is a project carried out in collaboration with Bogdan Girbovan. It was recently presented in Bucharest. As future plans, I will continue another series I’m working on, Familiar Views. Here, the protagonists are the landscape and everyday life either.

Waiting for the drama by So-Milano and curated by Edicola and Walter Giordano, will be visible to the public until mid-May in Piazza Risorgimento, Milan.

gallery credit Any Okolie