IL SILENZIO DELL’OMBRA

Photo Exhibition by Rodolfo Fiorenza

S. Maria dello Spasimo, Palermo

July 22nd – 29th 2007

This fruitful encounter with Turkey was born from various assignements on behalf of Università della Tuscia, first through an extended photographic study on the 6th century church, on the small isle of Tavsan, then in Cappadocia. The black-and-white images study the oddly eroded rocks, and the naturally/unnaturally shapes of the Camini di Fata (Fairy’s Chimneys), discovering yet denying the presence of humans. Here, man and nature converse in a deafening silence; the saturation of black makes the atmosphere tangible, with decisive pictorial effects in the longer shots, whereas close-ups reveal details, crevices, and curves which chase each other about the large boulders.

RODOLFO FIORENZA

Rodolfo Fiorenza lives and works in Rome. Since the ‘70s he has been a photographer, in a variety of areas of interest. As well as photographing locations in Sicily, Matera, and the USA, he also closely studied artworks and most specifically the making of these artworks. His style later developed along the lines of enlarging and replicating a single detail, to the point of abstraction. He sometimes manipulates the images pictorially, reinterpreting the subject matter. In 1986, 1990, and 2000 he participated in the Biennale Internationale pour la Photographie d’Art et de Recherche, Paris. His latest individual show, Elogio dell’ombra, takes place in the Galleria Studio Trisorio in Rome, in occasion of the Festival Internazionale della Fotografia Roma 2007.