“I achieve my goal when I have people finding something strangely beautiful that they would not think so. I guess art is there to open people’s eyes and minds on things that they could not think could be that way.” – Guido Mocafico
Hamiltons is pleased to announce the first exhibition with Guido Mocafico in eight years. The show comprises eleven large format, unique, pigment prints from Mocafico’s highly acclaimed Serpens series.
What animal has inspired as much dread, as many legends and, indeed, as much revulsion and terror as the snake? Demon, divinity, sacred animal protector, ancestor – the nature and importance of this creature’s role has changed throughout history. Among the 2,700 known species, few are dangerous, let alone lethal, to humans, but prejudices prevail.
“There is minimalism and maximalism in my images. They are straight to the point but they are very complicated. I like the troubling aspect of doing something that is at once a very simple and yet complicated image.”
Guido Mocafico, Elaphe guttata, 2003; Guido Mocafico, Morelia viridis, 2003; Guido Mocafico, Bothriechis schlegeli , 2003 © Guido Mocafico
