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Photography
Available: January 2013
ISBN: 9788895157382
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Format: Hardback
Pages: 84
Illustrations: 36 col photos
Size: 280 x 280 mm
Language: English/Italian
Category: Photography
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Available: January 2013
ISBN: 9788895157399
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Format: Hardback
Pages: 112
Illustrations: 56 col photos
Size: 280 x 280 mm
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Category: Photography
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10 JOHN RULE Spring 2013
Roberto Kusterle: Stone Marks
Roberto Kusterle
It has often been said that Roberto Kusterle is not just a photographer,
but we should repeat it again while presenting this new work. It requires
a meticulous observation of nature and the establishment of a dialogue
with its elements, in this particular case, stone. Simple and humble
stones that he seeks out, chooses, collects with patience and curiosity
and photographs, appreciating their shape, surface, texture, design and
colour. He appropriates all these aesthetic values and transfers them
on to nude bodies and his models’ skins, adapting to the materials they
are wearing, to form a single entity. In this way surprising and surreal
connections are created between man and element, smooth and rough,
hot and cold, living and dead. Sometimes, the sensation is that of
osmosis and complicity, other times of contrast and hostility. In other
cases, the figure reflects the element itself, melting into it.
Damson: Life, Death, Love, Loss
Melissa Wauchope
“Nothing afflicts us like pain; nothing is feared, held distant or removed
like pain or death” says Melissa Wauchope, in art “Damson”, the
Australian artist who for many years has been based almost exclusively
in Italy. Our culture hides that which is considered disagreeable. We
hide the non-decorative, the unproductive, that which repels or brings
to mind uncomfortable truths. Women hide even better than others.
We hide our blood, our age, at times the bruises we collect; we hide
our fear, our bodies if they don’t correspond to imposed ideals.. In
this recent series of works, Damson pauses to analyze the dialogue
that each person undertakes with love, death, life and loss. Each
such encounter appears in the form of ritual. She uses photography
and collage, luminous, informal installations which combine video,
graffiti, words, alphabets, items of clothing, to interrogate our culture’s
relationship with death.