Sandra Cattaneo Adorno: Scarti di Tempo

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While on press for her second book, Águas de Ouro, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno noticed the brightly colored metal plates used to make test proofs. The plates, called “scarti” (Italian for “scraps”), showed her photographs as monochromes in shocking pink, bright yellow, royal blue, and black, evoking the spirit of Andy Warhol. A jolt of recognition coursed through her veins as Cattaneo Adorno realized the curious way in which photography can be used to preserve — and rearrange — fragments of time.

When the pandemic brought the world to a standstill in March 2020, Cattaneo Adorno noticed time began moving in strange ways, stretching endlessly into some unknown beyond but, if not preserved, disappearing from memory as though it never occurred. She began to feel as though she were accumulating “scraps” of time layering upon itself. Determined to give this experience form, Cattaneo Adorno began traveling through the inner space of her imagination. Delving through her archive, she began collaging otherwise unrelated images to create a series of new work that blurs the boundaries of reality and illusion as a metaphor for the mind.

In her third book, Scarti di Tempo, which means both “time discrepancy” and “scraps of time,” Cattaneo Adorno offers a meditation on perception: how we experience time, memory, connection, and the boundaries between reality and illusion. Moving away from representation, the photographs dissolve into abstraction, transporting us into another realm, the one they share with music and poetry. The book also contains a QR code that links to an original score composed by the artist’s husband, which provides an opportunity to experience the overlapping harmony of image and sound. Scarti di Tempo includes an introduction by GueorguiPinkhassov (b. 1969 in Moscow), award-winning Magnum photographer who has covered international events for four decades.

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While on press for her second book, Águas de Ouro, Sandra Cattaneo Adorno noticed the brightly colored metal plates used to make test proofs. The plates, called “scarti” (Italian for “scraps”), showed her photographs as monochromes in shocking pink, bright yellow, royal blue, and black, evoking the spirit of Andy Warhol. A jolt of recognition coursed through her veins as Cattaneo Adorno realized the curious way in which photography can be used to preserve — and rearrange — fragments of time.

When the pandemic brought the world to a standstill in March 2020, Cattaneo Adorno noticed time began moving in strange ways, stretching endlessly into some unknown beyond but, if not preserved, disappearing from memory as though it never occurred. She began to feel as though she were accumulating “scraps” of time layering upon itself. Determined to give this experience form, Cattaneo Adorno began traveling through the inner space of her imagination. Delving through her archive, she began collaging otherwise unrelated images to create a series of new work that blurs the boundaries of reality and illusion as a metaphor for the mind.

In her third book, Scarti di Tempo, which means both “time discrepancy” and “scraps of time,” Cattaneo Adorno offers a meditation on perception: how we experience time, memory, connection, and the boundaries between reality and illusion. Moving away from representation, the photographs dissolve into abstraction, transporting us into another realm, the one they share with music and poetry. The book also contains a QR code that links to an original score composed by the artist’s husband, which provides an opportunity to experience the overlapping harmony of image and sound. Scarti di Tempo includes an introduction by GueorguiPinkhassov (b. 1969 in Moscow), award-winning Magnum photographer who has covered international events for four decades.

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  • Photography and text by Sandra Cattaneo Adorno
    Introduction by Gueorgui Pinkhassov
    Afterword by Rebecca Norris Webb

    Hardcover with acetate jacket
    9.75 x 13 inches
    148 pages / 62 images
    Trade ISBN: 9781942185994
    Signed ISBN: 9798890180506

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