Artist presentation

Paolo Bonfiglio

I live in Milan, where I was born in 1961. I studied business administration and always worked for

international consultancy firms. Photography always played a parallel and essential role, deployed

through passion, dedication and fun. Throughout the years I attended some workshops, including a

one-week experience with Andreas Bitesnich about nude.

The backbone of my work consists of two elements. Firstly, the combination between the search for

different themes and languages and the focus on the connection between reality and its features,

particularly for those apparently concealed but revealing, regardless of subject: a person, an object, a

scene. Secondly, the attempt to connect to facts and tangible issues, also in those photographs which

are seemingly far from sheer reality. Everything is thought to preserve the real essence of photography

and fulfil its nature: capturing something which was there - like all of us.

In addition to photography, I am a passionate writer.

Reality shows itself through limitless ways. Thus, each artist tries to intercept it by exploring the most

adequate language. My curiosity has also spread over artificiality which pervades our lives. For us -

Europeans, a bit refined, yet outdated at the same time - it is easy to target some simple and desperate

expressions of the American way of life. “Worldsamerica” collections – hereby represented by a selec-

tion from the collections “Cars” and “Places” - summarize some of these aspects.

In particular, when it is possible to compare – within few miles – the dreams enclosed in a vintage car

gathering and abandonment of villages which spring up and fall down because of business: yesterday-

not there / today-existing / tomorrow-dead. Once again, the language of photography adapts to its

scenes: colours and full immersion against smoothness and distance. Fake colours for possible fake

dreams.

Theo Giacometti

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