(detail) Guido Baselgia, Light Fall 56 Piz Languard, eine Nacht lang, 2./3. August 2013, N46°, Schweiz, Edition of 5, 2014 Gelatin silver print on baryta paper 96 x 120 cm. © Guido Baselgia.
Baselgia’s glacier works in neutral LED lightboxes are his most recent. The series transforms the analogue into digital images. Again, the artist has used a large-format camera; he also exploits the translucence of the silver grain.
Guido Baselgia is a photographer. But what pulls him is not the naturalistic reproduction of a landscape. Shouldering his large-format camera, he invests heavily in his works, the result of lonely marches across empty landscapes. In all weather, in complete silence and isolation he communes with what he sees, tenaciously struggling to achieve his vision.
The Swiss Engadine and the Bolivian Altiplano, Chile’s Atacama desert, the Far North with its fjords and polar seas, the world’s oceans, the sun and the stars provide his scenery and backdrops.
