Yuri Catania. Moonlit Garden

 Erarta Museum presents an exhibition by the Swiss/Italian visual artist Yuri Catania, featuring 50 pictures taken in Palm Springs, California, and the photographer’s own garden at the foot of the Alps; an intimate photography project capturing the aesthetic perfection of hundreds of colourful flowers lovingly cultivated by the artist’s wife; and a metaphysical garden, remote from reality and particularly enchanting by night.

Born in Milan in 1975. Catania began his career as a fashion photographer and has collaborated with high fashion brands, including Chanel, Giorgio Armani, Philipp Plein, Ermanno Scervino, and La Perla, and international magazines like Vogue Italia, Numerò Paris, i-D, and Love. At the same time, he was working on his own art projects, experimenting with different media. The turning point came in 2013 when Catania’s works were noticed by a French curator who invited him to exhibit in Paris. Since then, Yuri has been creating art photography and mixed media artworks and doing exhibitions all over the world. Due to the countless trips and encounters with other cultures and landscapes, his outlook evolved quickly, to the point where the medium of photography became inadequate for his creativity that has branched out into new languages like artificial intelligence, 3D, painting, and collage.