Alberto Flammer: la poetica della luce

When Alberto was planning an exhibition he would first prepare sketches on A4 sheets of what he was going to photograph and then proceed with the photographs. So, in this case, the sketches were ready, but not the photographs.
We decided together to exhibit two series of works done years before.
The first group consists of images from the series entitled ‘Dal Libro dei Morti degli Antichi Egizi’, in which details of the monuments Flammer had photographed on his 1988 trip are depicted. As Antonio Mariotti writes:
Flammer ‘aims to explore a world distant in both space and time’. And again: ‘Irremediably, however, what guides Alberto Flammer’s research is his desire to ‘dominate’ light at all costs, using it in the best way possible to realise his most intimate intent: that of surprising those who observe his works with a new point of view each time, a new contrast between light and shadow, between black and white’.
Words that also apply to the second group of images, which are images taken from the ‘Radiografie e Risonanze’ series: still lifes depicting vases and flowers made from medical plates, plus a special Self-Portrait.