Stefano Cerio by Stefano Chiodi
The ground is covered in snow, the horizon a dark line of mountains; low milky clouds hide the sky. In the foreground, a shapeless form, a strange sagging mass of bright colors-red, blue and yellow-stirs as it fills with air. In less than a minute a popular fairground attraction appears: an inflatable, rotund form, awkward and genial, shaped like a double slide or a springboard, the kind often seen in children's play areas, at fairs and village gatherings. Along with other inflatables in the same vein-a chubby castle complete with dragon, a football pitch-the slide is part of the bizarre landscape conjured up in Stefano Cerio's Aquila, a series of photographs taken in Abruzzo at different times of year and in highly impactful settings not far from L' Aquila, on the plains of Campo Felice, Campo Imperatore and Pescasseroli.
Stefano Cerio lives and works in Rome and Paris.
He began his career as a photographer at the age of 18, contributing to the Italian
weekly L'Espresso. Since 2001, his interest has gradually moved towards explorative
photography and video.
His work increasingly focuses on the theme of representation, exploring the boundary
line between vision, recounting the real and the spectator's horizon of expectation, the
staging of a possible reality that might not be true but is at least plausible. In this sense,
projects such as Sintetico Italiano (Italian Synthetic), Souvenir, Aquapark, Night Ski,
are stages in a coherent artistic development which finds in the concept of memory, in
the other place as a catalyst for present desires and future memories, in the idea of
holiday and entertainment, that suspension of daily life which the author studies and
recounts in images.
His works are to be found in many public and private collections.
He began his career as a photographer at the age of 18, contributing to the Italian
weekly L'Espresso. Since 2001, his interest has gradually moved towards explorative
photography and video.
His work increasingly focuses on the theme of representation, exploring the boundary
line between vision, recounting the real and the spectator's horizon of expectation, the
staging of a possible reality that might not be true but is at least plausible. In this sense,
projects such as Sintetico Italiano (Italian Synthetic), Souvenir, Aquapark, Night Ski,
are stages in a coherent artistic development which finds in the concept of memory, in
the other place as a catalyst for present desires and future memories, in the idea of
holiday and entertainment, that suspension of daily life which the author studies and
recounts in images.
His works are to be found in many public and private collections.
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| ISBN 13 | 9783775753203 |
| ISBN 10 | 3775753206 |
| Titel | Stefano Cerio |
| Autor | Stefano Chiodi |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Hatje Cantz |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2022-09-29 |
| Seitenanzahl | 96 |
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