Metamorphosis
Metamorphosis, intended as change, transformation from one object to another. Metamorphosis is movement, modification of appearance and essence of things. Nothing is created, nothing is destroyed, everything is transformed. Every object, every living or non-living form transforms, changes, and continues to live under another aspect. I've always been fascinated by plants, flowers, their changes, their withering to be reborn. Apparently static living beings but in continuous movement and change. In this gallery, I wanted to collect the sequence of this transformation. Photography, as a medium that records metamorphosis, captures the moments of change. With the sequence, the story becomes almost cinematic, also in movement, from one frame to another the plant or flower is no longer the same as the previous shot, the click of the camera immobilizes the metamorphosis for a moment, then follows its evolution, continuing to record the subsequent moments. A story that doesn't want to be an end, but a new beginning, a transformation, therefore a metamorphosis.
Capturing the essence
After years of commissioned work in which I sought perfection in framing and focusing, in these images I let myself be carried away by emotion, I tried to capture the essence of what I saw, capturing light and color, a true "writing of light" (photography, phôs-graphè from the Greek means writing of light). The contours are barely hinted at, you can glimpse something but the essence appears: a tree, a historic building, they are there before our eyes in all their beauty, full of light and color. Not something metrically perfect but that precisely in its non-perfection, in its mystery full of beauty strikes our eyes. Even time seems to expand, not a precise time, an hour, a year, but a time that will remain fixed in the printed image forever.
Look Up!
I am attracted by the graphics of things; signs, lines and shapes that I often look for with my gaze while I photograph. In this work I played with lines and geometries. Lines that delimit spaces, cut them, create them. Looking up, in the sky of Milan, you can see lines formed by the wires of electricity, trams and buses; these lines intersect forming triangles, rectangles, squares or they travel parallel, delimit spaces and cut them. Following them with your gaze they seem to take you around the city like signs on a map. I worked on abstraction and accentuated the graphic aspect with black and white. Dark lines that stand out against the white sky, like drawings on a sheet of paper. I liked the idea of a stylised representation of the city, with an essential aesthetic where, however, the urban element is still recognisable. In the gallery there are 5 compositions made up of 4 images and 9 single images
Staring at the sea
Horizons, umbrellas, swings, the Adriatic Sea and its beaches. Places I frequented with my family when I was a child, that represent carefree and distant moments for me. Walking on the beaches, taking photographs, means reliving those moments to preserve them forever not only in my memory, but also in the sensor of my camera. These places seem to have remained unchanged, like the sensations they evoke in me. My thoughts move at the same speed as my gaze, slowly among these calm lights. What has always captured my attention is the intersection of the lines, given by the verticality of the artificial structures, with the horizon of the sea. I like to look for them in the landscape and capture them with a shot. The lines cross the natural background, defining the empty spaces, only occasionally filled by some human figure in the background.