The metaphysics of black and white
The Arte and Cuisine aps association, in collaboration with the Management of Forte di Gavi and the Regional Directorate of Museums of Piedmont and the Patronage of the Province of Alessandria, the Municipality of Gavi, and the Municipality of Serravalle Scrivia, presents the photography exhibition “The Metaphysics of Black and White,” which will take place at Forte di Gavi, AL, in the months of May and June 2023.
I am participating in the exhibition with a photographic project dedicated to the Departures of unknown characters for unknown destinations.
The exhibition is a collective of artists/photographers who each present a different project in their own style on black and white photography, brought together by an artistic research that goes beyond the subject or situation portrayed, expressing an interiorization that is reflected in the exterior, then bringing the viewer back to internalization in a continuous, silent and circular communication between artist, photography and viewer. Artists often express the “time” they live in, and our recent time has coincided with a pandemic that has forced people to stay at home, metaphorically and literally. The condition of forced “isolation”, for some, has brought about moments of introspection, the reduced sociality has placed the “I” not in front of the other, but in front of itself. In this way, the individual, and in this exhibition the artist, places himself at the center of the world and rediscovers himself and his interiority, an interiority that lies beyond the duality of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, black and white.
Black and white represent opposites, while metaphysics means beyond physics, a beyond in which the external world corresponds to the internal world and the individual stands at the center. The exhibition therefore aims to showcase a research that transcends duality, offering a comprehensive vision both in the individual photograph and in the collective work of the artists.
We are not all one, but each of us is unique in our own world, the union of its infinite aspects. In this exhibition, the artist is unafraid to show this, without judgment or preconceptions, but in a completely authentic manner, each in their own style and way of expressing themselves and their vision of the world around them.
Participating artists in alphabetical order:
Alberto Pallavicini, Ilaria Berenice, Marco Mignani, Marzia Bernini, Massimo Tamiazzo, Mirko Tamiazzo, Paolo Amoretti, Stefano Tocco.
