Las flores de Catia, Caracas, 1968

Far from conveying a conformist image of Latin America, where he has spent most of his life, Paolo Gasparini (born in Gorizia, Italy, in 1934 and nationalized as Venezuelan in 1954) moves away from ethnocentrism through photographs that reflect his critical stance on social inequality. The Italian photographer has traveled extensively through cities like Havana, São Paulo, and Caracas, gathering an extensive artistic production through which he immortalizes their many different realities and strata. By confronting scenes from the first and third worlds he manages to establish parallelisms charged with contradictions in which he finds a unique and chaotic beauty...[+]