Cities are made of thin webs which occasionally reveal their essence: textures of a life flowing also underneath or inside concrete geometries. Carlo D’Orta explores the cities' surface, its glare and combined reflections. He draws on the concept of a web which gets wider and provides the real world with a new skin. Architectural geometries and the points connecting interior and exterior spaces are actually the DNA of a modern vertical city, as in a quest for an impossible integration with the environment. In D'Orta's photographs the buildings look light and aerial. They lose their nature of [...]

The photographic study entitled "Vibrations" was conceived as a whole in 2009. It focuses on the reflections produced by ground-based shop windows and, besides, the reflections produced upwards by skyscrapers, one reflecting into the other like modern Adonis. These reflections create a parallel world of magic shapes – either anthropomorphic or abstract – , deception, imagination and sudden light effects which appear and disappear as we walk further. Although seemingly virtual, this world actually exists: most of the times, we slide through it absentmindedly. But if we just stop for a while, we [...]

Warm colour tones blend joyfully with their neat contrasts, as in an ecstatic thrill. Surfaces quiver as if the photographer was focusing on jelly-like blobs. The lines separate from the objects and give rise to something new…an amazingly poetic flavour of architecture stems from his shots. The photographer manages to change the view of the object by using targeted angles. D’Orta delivers a new perspective by working on composition, colours, contrasts and light. Reflections, distortion effects, static-featured twists, a growing number of graphic items and, most importantly, emphasis on colours: [...]

Photographing the Landscape from a metaphysical and surrealist perspective: I draw on the lesson of Antoni Gaudì and Salvador Dalì, combining Niki de Saint Phalle's charming visions and the inclined or reflecting planes associated with Francis Bacon and Michelangelo Pistoletto. Such is the aim of the project I have been working on in the last couple of months. Here are a few ideas.
The project entitled “Surrealist landscapes” stems from the Italian landscapes and towns. It conveys that, as Italians, we go back to our birthplaces, that is places filled with classical culture and art [...]

I happened to be in Berlin a couple of times for business-related reasons. Too short a time.
In January 2010, I finally managed to stay there longer and get a feel of the city. I chose to stay close to Potsdamer Platz, as I wanted to start my tour from the metaphoric scar linking the two cities, once mirroring each other — like a separated couple living together — from 1961 to 1989. While walking slowly down the boulevards and the streets covered with snow, I'd try to plunge into the soul of this city. [...]

This section of the website presents a series of projects aimed at illustrating my photographic research, through exhibitions in both public venues and private galleries.
Currently, there are two ongoing exhibition projects, namely Parallel abstractionisms (together with Danilo Susi) and Architectural rhythms.

This section of the website presents other ongoing photographic projects along with projects which have been developed in recent years.

Photography is my means of artistic expression. Painting is nevertheless the means and the place for further chromatic and conceptual research; such reaserch is destined, sometimes rationally sometimes unconsciously, to be reflected in my photographic vision. I use oil and watercolour techniques in works, both figurative and abstract, whose common feature is the exploration of feelings in the metropolitan context.