Galleria Gottardo is continuing the research into photography that it began more than ten years ago: from the classic works of Frank, Lartigue and Penn to more contemporary photographers. The exhibition of the works of Antonio Biasiucci is titled
RES.Lo stato delle cose. It is one in a long line of exhibitions on contemporary Italian photography that Galleria Gottardo has shown since it first opened its doors. The exhibitions over the years have shown the most important and interesting of Italian photographers.
“The photography of Biasiucci is an ambiguous art, as is all art that has to do with appearance, appearance that translates the corporeality of the real into a fantasy imprisoned by a scale of perceptions that goes from the blinding white of lightning to the black of the depths of night, to the protection of matter that absorbs all light …..”, writes Giuseppe Montesano. |
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Biasiucci’s ambiguous art has put him in a continuous struggle to resist the fascination of appearances. Not satisfied with that which appears to be an indisputable fact, he is searching for another element of reality, one that is in some ways invisible and allusive, like the one that lives within things and that manifests itself occasionally in the unconscious babble that things emit. Biasiucci is not content with appearances. He works with photography as if it were an etching, the etching as an engraving, the engraving as a sculpture and the sculpture as a body, imbuing them with a darkness that is ready to negate all appearance. Solitary and erratic, with RES Biasiucci delves even more deeply into his forest, in that landscape of living things which, as in the forest of symbols of Baudelaire, observe the landscape with familiar eyes. |
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RES. Lo stato delle cose, is a European premier that has been preceded by other exhibitions of Biasiucci’s research: Vacche, ancestral memories of the original animal; Corpus, a journey into the origins of the world and its objects; and Magma, volcanoes seen as an embryonic form of energy still in a state of evolution. Biasiucci comments on his own work in this way: “…through matter I try to fuse water, earth, air and fire. In my photographs I try to bring together the four elements with a certain degree of ambiguity….”
Antonio Biasiucci was born in Dragoni (Caserta) Italy in 1961. His interest in photography was linked to anthropology and rooted to topics pertaining to rural life in the south of Italy. This interest soon brought him to the study of suburban locations. |
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For many years he pursued a project on the evolution of culture in southern Italy that gradually became a journey through the primary elements of existence and personal memory. He works strictly in black and white “…I was born with black and white and with it have constructed my imaginary world…” In 1987 Biasiucci met the actor and theatre director Antonio Neiwiller, with whom he worked together until 1993, the year of Neiwiller’s death. In 1992 Biasiucci was awarded the European Kodak Panorama prize in Arles. Many of his works are in permanent collections at museums and institutions, including: Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris; Departamento de documentaciòn de la cultura audiovisual in Puebla, Mexico; |
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Centre de la Photographie in Geneva; Château d'Eau in Toulouse; Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris; Fondazione Banca del Gottardo in Lugano; Musée de l'Elysée in Lausanne; Galleria Civica in Modena, Italy; Fondazione Banco di Napoli; Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte Contemporanea in Guarene, Italy; and Galerie Freihausgasse in Villach, Austria. |
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