Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli.
06/10/2014.
In Focus. [PAR] France.
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La Défense in Paris is one of the largest business district in Europe: its construction begun in 1958 under President De Gaulle. In this story or photo essay by Claudio Cerasoli, shows the double face of this project: the creation of a new financial city as a brand image for the city of Paris and the discontinuity of real life.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
Esplanade de la Défense by Claudio Cerasoli. Click above to see larger image.
The "cold" with which life happens in this new district is categorically reflected in the images by Claudio Cerasoli, and in the following words:
Exploring La Défense you can experience a sensation of emptyness: movement and chaos are confined to shops, commercial buildings and metro stations. Besides that is like floating in an uncertain reality, in the model of a futuristic town inhabited, but not really lived.
They decided to create a completely new area to fulfil the need of a postwar development (motors, traffic, service industry) and to guarantee the birth of a new financial district able to compete with the City of London.
56 years later here the numbers of La Défense.
12 sectors.
310,000 square meters of pavement and sidewalks.
111,000 square meters of green.
1500 businesses.
3,000,000 square meters of office space.
150,000 employees.
30,000 residents.
Only 30,000 residents, in a city corner that seems to be disconnected from the rest of the urban fabric, and that only during the working hours is populated by 150,000 employees and businessmen.
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CLAUDIO CERASOLI
Claudio Cerasoli (L’Aquila, Rome, Italy, 1986). He graduate in 2013 at the ISFCI (Istituto Superiore di Fotografia) in Rome, Italy. He works as a freelance.
Exhibition, publication, award, project.
- The Trilogy - Mourning Becomes Electra curator by ALAGroup, with VOID ART SCHOOL, VOID Gallery and ISFCI (workshop/exhibition in progress).
- UNSEEN, notes from the invisible worlds, a project by Ottavio Celestino, Spazio Cerere, Rome 4-8 July 2013.
- Young Creative Chevrolet 2013, 3rd Place, in collaboration with the students of the third year ISFCI 2013.
- FindYourCorner #1_Hanasi Design, curator by Strato, 4-5 May 2013, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome.
- E-picentro, organized by the department of architecture and design university of La Sapienza di Roma and Teciche Univeritat Darmstadt. Biennale di architettura di Venezia 2010.
