Born 1949. Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland.
Romeo Vendrame’s photographic works are dedicated to the representational world: mainly subjects from nature, but also people and the world of things he created. The artist photographs analogue and then processes, alienates and abstracts the captured subjects analogue as well.
It is not about the faithful, “true” reproduction of the given, but about the reproduction of the personal impression of nature, people or object, of moods and atmosphere. In the processing of his subjects, the focus is on different aspects – light, forms, colour, materiality and their abstraction. The oscillation between the real and the unreal is always in the foreground and the blur plays a central role in most the photographs.
Vendrame’s works are represented in international collections such as Haus für Kunst Uri, Switzerland; First Advisory Group, Liechtenstein; Kunstsammlung des Kantons Zürich, Switzerland; Kunstsammlung des Kantons St. Gallen, Switzerland; Kunstforum Bad Oeynhausen, Germany; Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Milano, Italy.
