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Nazareno Crea / Erol Gemma

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Erol Gemma / Nazareno Crea

'Viewer's Digest', a newspaper in five editions ('LVX', 'MORI', 'DOCTA', 'QVEO' and 'NOX')

Graphic Design

Jury report

Concentrated Visual World
Viewer's Di­gest is a five-part news­pa­per se­ries based on pho­tographs and im­ages down­loaded from the in­ter­net and ma­nip­u­lated.

Cre­ated by Erol Gemma and Nazareno Crea, each issue has a Latin head­line in large let­ters on the front page. The se­ries be­gins with LUX (light) and is ded­i­cated to the his­tory of pho­tog­ra­phy, pre­sent­ing an in­ter­pre­ta­tion of the rapid de­vel­op­ment of the medium that has be­come so im­por­tant today.

The sec­ond issue, with the title MORI, re­volves around the ever-pre­sent issue of human van­ity. It ends with the words 'Me, My­self and I'. QUEO (mean­ing 'I can') shows the de­vel­op­ment of tech­ni­cal, sci­en­tific and so­cial in­ven­tions in an al­most py­rotech­ni­cally dy­namic pre­sen­ta­tion. Im­ages of Dolly the cloned sheep, cars and tech­ni­cal con­struc­tions il­lus­trate the human urge to achieve more, to go faster and fur­ther and to make things big­ger and bet­ter. The DOCTA (teach­ing) issue crit­i­cally ex­am­ines the cir­cu­la­tion, ac­ces­si­bil­ity and ex­po­nen­tial ac­cu­mu­la­tion of in­for­ma­tion in the in­ter­net age. The se­ries con­cludes with NOX (night / death), fo­cus­ing on the no­tion of trans­for­ma­tion into an­other state, from the ma­te­r­ial to the im­ma­te­r­ial, and com­bin­ing el­e­ments from all the pre­vi­ous is­sues. In Viewer's Di­gest, with its highly ef­fec­tive jux­ta­po­si­tion of po­tent, nar­ra­tive im­ages, these two graphic artists stim­u­late free in­ter­pre­ta­tion and mul­ti­ple as­so­ci­a­tions. Erol Gemma and Nazareno Crea pre­sent a view of our con­tem­po­rary vi­sual world that is both con­cen­trated and in­tense. Am­bi­gu­ity, oc­ca­sional ex­ag­ger­a­tion and his­tor­i­cal ref­er­ences are used to con­vey and crit­i­cally ques­tion the themes they ad­dresses.
Au­re­lia Müller

Biography

Erol Gemma / Nazareno Crea
Born in
1983
Education
designer HES en communication visuelle

Web

www.nazareno.co.uk

also in

2007

Erol Gemma
Born in
1980
Education
Photographer

also in

2007

2014

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