The beginning.
1990. August. Paris, Marais. A bookshop, anyone.I go inside. I leaf through some books and pile them up, any books.A little further on a shelf, Photography. I read a title, then a name: Ernst Haas. I watch it. I go back through some pages. I start again with attention. Colours, Leaves. Cars running. Horses. Metropolis. An entire life spent observing, taking shoots.There’s everything to start. The quintessence of photography art. I think that this is the turning point. Like Haas, I have the same need of sharing images, the need to frame them. From that point I never changed, I side with the free expression, if possible. Someone told me that there’s an ethic problem at that point, about border stories. I mean: you cannot be really free without occupying some other territories. I wonder if these are only details, a priori fear, some piss to mark territory or raising barriers, to avoid any comparison, or worst, sad acceptation of controversial dogmatism. I’m not against but for. I’m not standing here or there, up or down, at least I’m staying over hasty judgement, in a limbo where I don’t care. I don’t care for dull criticism, even if I understand that it has to be, I prefer comparison and sharing. Neither labels, better the melting pot of tastes and themes, with some balance at least. I read a Toscani thought that says: if you are not excessive, if you are not extreme, you are lousy. Also Mario Mertz says: being excessive is art, being normal not. It’s true, you make Art when you are like that. But I also think that in our world everything and its contrary count. There’s no absolute true in art, and so in photography, for sure not one for everything. And because Art is the greatest freedom of expression, there’s no need to be worlds apart, you can be yourself without giving credit to rules. I found interesting this Tom Robbins thought: “it’s the letter between A and B, the number between 1 and 2. That’s the place most relevant where artists and truth seeker can found themselves”. In fact, there isn’t a place pret-a-porter, of easy access for everyone. Those are places for whom has an emotional pass, for whom wants to express himself at different level, a language understandable only for who possess it.
Credits in random order
To my Great Family, that includes everyone because all of you contribute to my being what I am now, to all the people I feel near me and made me happy during these years… also those who disappeared for any reasons.
To my father, the first great artist I met. To my mother, a mountain, the excellent model. To Patrizia, for being always here. To Mariella, for culture, knowledge, patience. To the grace and sensitivity of Giorgio Prevedi, for the essence of my photographic knowledge, in his memory. To Massimo Giugia, for the initiation to art world. In memory of Carlo Cassine, for the courage he left me in heritage, the courage of battle and, sometime, survive. To Vanni, for pushing each other, for pats on shoulder and so many words. To Silvia and Mauro, for having realised this project. To Luca Tedeschini, for our personal list of things. To Claudio Tizzani, one of the last dreamers. To Giacomo Aldè, for precision and rules, before him I was a wild photographer. To all the friends, many, that shared with me hopes and dreams, that contributed to my improvement, every day more. Berse, Ross, Massy, Olly, Mike and family, Cla, Laura, Luke, Sonia and the people from AnM, and to Tere for inner beauty and for not being “between the lines”. To Società Fotografica Subalpina, for the opportunities given to me. And to the new ones from whom I learn every day some freshness. To masters Haas, Klein, Bolondi, Olaf, Goldin, Höfer, Shore, Pollock, Wyeth, Richter, Chatwin, McCarthy, Inarritu Gonzales, Bukowski, Waits and many others, for exciting me and create different images in my mind, those that I tried to reveal in my photos in these years. To “Madiba” e Muhammed Alì for the model. To India. To master Franco Negro with whom I shared Art, his art, and some great drinks in his studio. To Andrea, because she is the future.
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