"My way of photographing is the same as my way of remembering, thinking, dreaming, and hoping: everything comes about by temporal and spatial superimpositions". This is what the Sicilian artist Davide Bramante has said about his photographic work, which are at times compared to Futurism. But this is only a formal similarity.
His are simultaneous visions in which he recreates situations and abolishes the temporal categories of past, present, and future. His images of Dublin are part of a series, begun in 1998 and called My Own Rave, which undermines the Catholic and moral values of the city through the representation of provocative sexual icons.
For Bramante, the eternal wanderer, his works are a mirror of contemporary society. "The stratifications and veiling to be seen in each image take me back to my land and my people: in part we are Arabs, Normans, Byzantine, Spanish…". (see biography)
MY OWN RAVE - Guardando al Bellotto #1 – 2008
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75 x 110 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - Guardando al Bellotto #1 – 2008
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75 x 110 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - Guardando al Bellotto #3 – 2008
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75 x 110 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - SHANGHAI MOGANSHAN ROAD – 2007
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120 x 187 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - SHANGHAI PANNELLO – 2007
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120 x 187 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - SHANGHAI CELESTIALE – 2007
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120 x 187 cm
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MY OWN RAVE-PECHINO Digital Delights – 2007
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120 x 174 cm
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MY OWN RAVE-PECHINO Lanterne & Longines – 2007
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120 x 174 cm
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MY OWN RAVE-PECHINO Avanti – 2007
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150 x 100 cm
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MY OWN RAVE -ROMA Colosseo+Impero – 2007
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120 x 189,6 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - NAPOLI x ISCHIA – 2008
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100 x 162 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - La Piazza e il Castello – 2008
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100 x 150 cm
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MY OWN RAVE-BERLINO Porta di Brandeburgo – 2005
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73,7 x 108,7 cm
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MY OWN RAVE-MADRID Parco del Buon Retiro – 2005
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150 x 255 cm
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MY OWN RAVE - New York e Las Vegas – 2006
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120 x 189 cm
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MY OWN RAVE-CAIRO GizaPiramidi/ Vista di Zamalek – 2006
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120 x 199 cm
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