Antonio Biasiucci: a Master of Language
The exhibition “Arca” at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Italy, brings together for the first time the different chapters of the artist’s “utopian poem”, developed in separate series over 40 years.
The photographer’s research has always focused on elements fundamental to human life. Light and shade strip the subject to its essence, creating images where birth, migration, the record of history, text erased from a blackboard or daily bread are transfigured by a personal and coherent vision.
Vapors. The ritual of pig killing 1983-1987
Cows 1991
Wooden body 2021
A series on the ancestral ritual of killing a pig is seen from the animal’s perspective. A section of a cut tree recalls the scale model of a cityscape. In the exhibition, curated by Roberto Koch, each series finds collocation into a grid or sequence with a distinct approach, but the sum of them shapes an intense, transformative view of life.
Matany 2015
Ghenos 2017
Res 1999
Solfatara 1993
The exhibition “Arca” is on view at Gallerie d’Italia in Turin, Italy, until January 6, 2025
