Piece description from the artist
The owl has been with me since my youth. It will be for my big eyes. It will be for my passion for the night and its loneliness. I always liked to live at night, so some friends call me owl.
I like the ability of this bird of prey to be there watching, in a meditation sort of, while nobody sees it, looking for his moment to open his wings and fly towards something that keeps it alive. The owl is known as wise, I don't know why. What I like most, for sure, is simply its look.
I arrived at Kruger Park with two small planes that were almost scary. I had never traveled in a 4-seat light aircraft and flying over the tropical bush without knowing very well where you are is a great faith experience. I came from Mozambique and before Angola where the circumstances of life had led me to live for a while. There, a Portuguese individual had given us unique and very precious advice on where to go, what to say and when to go to a special place in the middle of one of the best parks in the world.
Safari is an experience that marks you. Especially if you have the opportunity to do it in peace of mind. To us, luckily and daringly, we had to live it alone, with two excellent guides.
It was almost night. A few hours before we saw a cheetah hunt. We stopped to drink some water and chew dried meat near a small river. The light was beautiful. The nearby trees were full of vultures. A rhinoceros was at a proper distance so we didn't have to worry. The high head of a giraffe looked at us from above, beyond the last branch of nearby trees. The night went down completely, little by little. The cold became more intense and we left to return to the base camp. It was there that one of the guides, while the car crossed the dirt road at once, without saying anything turned off the car lights. With a very quick gesture he lit his powerful flashlight. He pointed to a branch that was slightly above our heads. All I saw were four huge circles that looked at us. Suddenly I felt a few meters from one of my myths. Fantastic owls. I didn't have to think about it, I picked up the camera, stopped, watched, praying that nothing changed at that moment and shot. I saw the two closest eyes blur and those behind were still, motionless. The first of the two a second later he gave me a new portrait.
I imagined from the beginning the pleasure of being able to live with these eyes. With the feeling of joy of having lived that moment. With the certainty that there is much to see, much to discover, that there are moments in every moment and that there are moments in every situation. You must know how to wait, like an owl and every time to fly again to hunt what keeps us alive.
Emanuele Giusto Kantfish is an Italian Madrid-based digital artist who works with images, videos, installations, films and writing. He observes reality by questioning everything. For him, reality does not exist without an observer. In his artworks the “real” becomes something inspiring “more than real”.
“““I like to place these art images in the spaces of daily life or exhibitions, to generate an immediate impact that inspires to break away in an intimate seduction that induces to dream.””” — says Kantfish.
His images are the result of photography and a personal digital technique. They are a mix of documentary elements, reports as well as creative solutions of lights and personal techniques. As a creative author he believes in the Renaissance idea of a broad and transversal culture. Deeply interested in anthropological research and philosophical points of view, he observes reality in its full complexity.
His images were published by the main media in Italy, Spain, UK and USA (El País, L'Espresso, XL Weekly, Guardian, Foreign Policy, etc.). Kantfish is a journalist of the Official National Association of Italian Journalists since 2002 and he has worked and collaborated with international magazines and media, TV, radios, publishers and national and international agencies. He holds a degree in Law (University of Higher Education of Perugia), thesis “The therapeutic cloning as a legal problem”. He completed the “International Master of Artistic and Documentary Photography and Image Technique”, at the EFTI School of Madrid. He has published a book with the important Italian publisher Feltrinelli and he has worked with important social institutions around the world, such as FAO of the United Nations (World Water Day official video). He was selected at prestigious prizes. His images are distributed by agencies, galleries and agents. He also works on publishing projects for brands and institutions.
Kantfish explores more fields in art and communication. In film production he has directed the feature documentary "El Dulce Sabor del Éxito", that offers a reflection about the concept of SUCCESS in our society. Featuring the tenor Placido Domingo, the actress Rossy de Palma, the philosopher Fernando Savater, the photographer Alberto García-Alix, the artist Pilar Albarracín, the psychologist Martin Seliegman or the buddhist Matthieu Ricard, among others. The film is in its post-production phase. He also produced and directed two short films, the non-fiction ALMAmATER and the documentary Nobody Like Athens.
He has eclectic experiences in different continents, from Africa to Asia, as a reporter, editorial and project manager.
In Spain he has also co-founded five startups, and he has directed or co-directed different projects in the visual field.
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