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2/9/2010

Alex Barchiesi - Renato Silva

Cell63 artgallery, Berlin

The biggest stranger: yourself
a solo photography exhibition by Alex Barchiesi

To show what other people cannot see is the duty of research, in art like in other skills… and my starting point is the human being, lock in is fortress, on the wall, just a second before he could take a look above the bastions… that second is eternity: eternal waiting, follow by a revelation… a moment when the look get lost…

To observe a man observing, like an image reflecting herself many times, to become that man and observe myself .. discover myself looking at the unknown desert of my psyche… looking at the eternal instant when his looking far away, like I’m looking inside him…looking inside myself.

And this is what I would see: the nape, a zone of our body totally foreign, and so unique.
If I think of my nape I cannot create an image, while is the most unprotected point of my body that I offer to the worlds look. Sensual and so fragile, to her the murders used to point the blade.

….UNAJI is the Japanese word for her and in Japan is the only place where there’s a particular attention to this part of body which the Gheisha shows to others, emphasizing her, living her without any make up and free from airs.

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About Alex Barchiesi
Alex Barchiesi born in Rome on the 11th september 1977.
He take his degree in Physics of the elemental particles in 2008
I was teaching at the Chemical Faculty of the University LaSapienza in Rome and in the Accademia of Fine Arts in Rome.

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Childhood revisited
a solo photography exhibition by Renato Silva

“Childhood revisited” photography project was born from a personal need to confront the visual memories of a grown up man, an artist with the reality and how this reality he had left behind several years ago looks like today. It’s an attempt to give a visual form to something very personal and clearly not material; to transform the deep psychological and emotional value of those places into artistic work of a photographer.

Renato Silva was born in Portugal in 1980. In 2010, as a photographer he came back to the places that were imprinted in his memory – the beach, the swimming pool, the church; all of them had importance in Silva’s early years and they left a mental and visual trace in his memory.

The photos are the result of a double confrontation. The first is a psychological one - facing the objects and sceneries that had emotional meaning, significant only for him. The second is a visual confrontation – comparing the images that stayed in his mind with what the reality looks like at present- what the time as a changing factor has done to the appearance of the places and how it differs from the memories.

It is obvious for the artist only, we cannot witness the changes of the places – how they decayed and rusted, or how they got renovated. From the photographs we can only guess the meaning, the hidden memory or the story behind. Each photo is a personal memory, re-experienced by the artist.

They stayed like memories – not explicit, sometimes hidden and a bit mysterious. Just like memories they keep some space left - to add more, to imagine something that isn’t there or to believe in a story that has not happened. There are no people appearing on the photos, but they are not empty. Each photographed place has its own personality, however they are not shown as ghosts from the past. They don’t give a viewer a feeling of looking at abandoned, old and forgotten spaces; the sentimental feeling they bear is not in focus. On the contrary – they are sharp, strong images, and the beauty of the places, discovered and expressed by Silva is somehow competing with the sentimental side of them. As if the photographer didn’t seek for his past in the feelings that the sceneries might bring back to life, but searched for the objects to photograph as an artist, images of here and now and successfully managed to emphasize their strong visual and aesthetic side, something which was recorded and kept in his memory for years.

Image: Alex Barchiesi

Vernissage Friday 3rd September 18:30-22:30

Cell63 artgallery
Allerstr 38 Berlin
U8 Leinestr
Opening time: Wed-Fri 14h00-19h00 + 2nd and 4th Saturday of the month
free admission

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