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The show

The Project Room of CAMERA - Italian Center for Photography, hosts Waterheave n personal exhibition by Francesco Bosso (Barletta, 1959), curated by Walter Guadagnini, director of the Turin institute.
Bosso investigates the natural landscape in its purest and wildest manifestations, isolating forms and elements to interpret uninhabited places and highlight the profound meaning of man's bond with his origins. Student of Kim Weston, grandson of the great master Edward, and of John Sexton and Alan Ross, assistants of Ansel Adams, for this occasion the Apulian photographer presents a work that comes from several series taken over the last few years, mainly dedicated to seascapes . Water as a creative force is at the center of twenty photographs also characterized by a meticulous printing process, which intensifies the cleanliness of the whites and the depth of the contrasts. With its constant flow - says Bosso - water represents the primordial liquid that creates, shapes, modifies the world, in a continuous and eternal motion of transformation. Waterheaven is a journey through images through the fascinating "creative force" of water, between vision and reality, a succession of evocations and fragments of memories.
Some examples of Bosso's great ability to tell a lyrical and harmonious reality of pictorial matrix through light and form are the images of the waterfalls made in Iceland , included in the Golden Light series (2012), or the views of Last Diamonds (2015), series made in the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier, near the village of Ilulissat, in Greenland. While in the first case the author enters into a relationship with the space and makes the intimacy of a place visible through photography, in the second he has collected strong emotions, the fluidity of such a natural landscape [...] shocking, in order to document its fragility and warn about the harmful consequences of global warming - continues Bosso. Furthermore, the images of Waterheaven are included in a monographic volume published by Silvana Editoriale, accompanied by a critical text by Walter Guadagnini. The publication enriches an already vast portfolio of editorial projects by the author, including: Last Diamonds (Skira, 2017), The Beauty Between Order And Disorder (Centro Culturale Candiani, 2015), Sassi e Calanchi (Castelvecchi, 2006), Swahili African portraits (Electa, 2003) and others. Through the photographic medium - comments Walter Guadagnini - Bosso communicates an ethic of protection and preservation of the natural landscape: with a skilful use of shades of black and white he celebrates his subjects and at the same time warns the viewer about fragility and uniqueness. of this patrimony. Phenomena such as massive urbanization and the concentration of an ever increasing number of people in cities characterize contemporary life, expelling the natural landscape from everyday imagery. Bosso puts it back at the center of attention, also documenting the transformations and the deleterious effects of the carelessness with which man relates to nature. His works are part of important private and public collections, while his exhibition projects have been hosted in national and international institutions such as the Pino Pascali Museum (Polignano), the Candiani Cultural Center (Venice) , the National Museum of Photography (Brescia). and the Cultural Center Museum (Hong Kong).

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Via delle Rosine, 18
10123 Turin

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