Prof. Exhibition

                                 

                                     COMUNICATO STAMPA

                                   

                                       Serafino Amato   

                                                                                           

                           “Fuori dal circo!” Letterale!                                                            

                                   18  -  31 ottobre 2013

                                    Inaugurazione 18 ottobre ore 18.30

  Galleria Monty&Company, Via della Madonna dei Monti, 69, 00184

Orari: dal martedì al sabato dalle ore 16.00 alle ore 20.00 e su appuntamento cell. +39 328 7623389­­       

      

                                                      

"Out of the Circus!" Literally!

The elephant was walking at one meter from the road, rather dangerous I thought, and not only for him.  There was just a thin rope separating him from the passing cars and his  guardian was distractedly playing with his cell phone… but guardians and city outskirts are all the same at all latitudes and that indian elephant could have been in any city or suburb of the east or west.

I took the photos of the pachyderm  on Christmans day.  I was with my son, wasting away some time while we waited for the Christmas Dinner which every year was becoming leaner and lonelier.  I used a 1951 Kodak Retina camera, very silent, but nonetheless, at the click, the elephant jumped as if frightened.  A gigantic animal, made up of many parts… solitary, "sadly" and by now commonly urbane, a huge desk of arid grooves and deep wrinkles that accepts caresses that seem like slaps, until…

  The central photos were shot with an old ZeissTenax, a german camera from the forties.  A small instrument with a minuscule lens,but extremely precise.  A camera that disturbs me when I use it, maybe because it was produced during nazism, but I hope, mine at least, right after the war.  Do lens have memories? I fear they do.

These are simple photos…that look more and more like my early work, attracted as I am by the force that is produced by what grows, appearing or distractedly disappearing, things that when touched by light, for a moment gain beauty.

And this elephant,  bound to a proximity with highways, who adores silence, has set in motion desires… my own, his, it doesn't really matter, gentleness, memory, and an agitation that only the "minimum" can give.

Digital prints on cotton paper

The format of the photos shown in oak frames is 60 x 80 cm.

S.A.

1958.

Serafino Amato, Rome 1958. He formed his experience in the field of experimental theatre in the early eighties. He then dedicated himself exclusively to photography. “Segnavia”, 1989. “Der Professor, der Assistent und” 1997. “Pallido Pallido” 1998. “Appunti per operette morali” 2002. “Fogli dei giorni” 2008. 

Since 2000, he has been working in video as well. “RLC scrittore d’acqua” 2005 a video with Raffaele La Capria, 2005. “Racconti bislacchi” 2006. “Racconti melanconici” 2008. 

In 2008, together with Lorenzo Pavolini, he published “Ecatombe - i girini della storia”, (ed. Headmaster) “Fogli dei giorni-leafing through the days”, 2012 (ed. Headmaster)

He teaches photography at John Cabot University - Rome.

Galleria Monty&Company, Via della Madonna dei Monti, 69, 00184

Orari: dal martedì al sabato dalle ore 16.00 alle ore 20.00 e su appuntamento

Info: artstudio@montyecompany.com;  cell. +39 328 7623389­­  www.montyecompany.com