New works focused on the study of classical and contemporary dance exhibited at Biffi Art Gallery

Through May 21, 2023, Biffi Arte Gallery in Piacenza is exhibiting Alessandro Vasapolli’s new photographic project entitled Dance Notes. After his successful debut in the Piacenza area with the DéVoilée series in 2018, the artist-photographer now takes a step forward in his reconnaissance of the photographic medium as a valuable tool for opening up to other, secret scenarios, in search of a phantasmal otherness that unhinges and disavows one of the original tasks of photography: the mimetic rendering of reality.

In Dance Notes, Vasapolli arrives at unprecedented results in terms of strength of vision and technical ability and enters into the complex dynamic between ephemeral and permanent, between stasis and movement: thus, reveries are born that presuppose all the ritual of classical photography but contain outcomes with remarkable experimental force: from color, expressed through a highly original algorithm that generates rare chromatics, to the use of a special shutter, made by Vasapolli himself, to printing procedures.

The new project is divided into six chapters, progressively accompanying precisely this transformation of the image from a stage where form is still individuated to pure luminous sign, a gesture imbued with light. Grace recounts all the grace of perfectly recognizable dancing bodies, albeit acted out in a dreamlike dimension in which the photographic medium seems to step aside to deliver a strongly pictorial image. In Dynamics there is a change of pace, the gesture widening into chromatic trajectories that seem like warnings of impending unhinging. Strength places the naked body on the scene, with its energetic tensions, its lines of force in constant opposition. Movement marks a dilation of time, which Vasapolli arrives at through the use of the particular physical shutter of his own creation, but it is Impetus that celebrates the turning point: here movement loses its levity, it becomes broad, portentous, reds burst in, like flames to unhinge space and volume. And it is somewhat poignant the disappearance of the dancer, in the last act of this process of transformation: in Time the body is absent in favor of a conceptual, sign-like writing; it is only traces of light, those we see, luminous synopies of movement in an increasingly fractured and visionary space.

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New works focused on the study of classical and contemporary dance exhibited at Biffi Art Gallery

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