Guido Mocafico

Guido Mocafico is a specialist in still life photography. Drawing from highly symbolical elements of decay in Western culture such as flowers, snakes or spiders, Mocafico’s images blur the line between still life paintings and photographic immortalisations of pulsating jeopardy. In the tradition of the allegorical art of Vanitas, Mocafico confronts desire and death, eros and thanatos always accompanied by an undertone of superficiality and lure. 

Guido Mocafico's Movement concentrates on the concept of time; whilst time was originally measured by astronomical and seasonal movements, here Mocafico explores the precise movement of a mechanical system to measure time.

 

Mocafico has photographed pieces, which are in themselves a work of art, by Audemars Piguet, Breguet, Chopard, Gerald Genta, Greubel Forsey, IWC, Jacquet Droz and Patek Philippe. The motives for the choice of movements depicted within the series were made purely for aesthetic and personal reasons; these criteria led Mocafico to choose only round movements.

 

"In a horological movement, I find poetry meeting technology. The poetry of time elapsing, the change of seasons, astronomical movements, and technology which enables up to eight hundred mechanical pieces inside such a small volume, all working perfectly together, to reach the most accurate time calculation. Each one of these movements takes on a life of its own.", Guido Mocafico.