“WATERHEAVEN”, Solenne Bellezza di WALTER GUADAGNIN 

” Acque placide, spesso immote, talvolta trasformate in pura campitura astratta, ad evidenziare una volontà di connettere due diversi ma non inconciliabili approcci alla natura: da un lato la sua trasformazione in pura ed eterea luminosità – che finisce per eliminare persino la linea dell’orizzonte, e qualsiasi elemento contingente dal cielo; dall’altro la percezione del reale legata sempre alla materia, alla sua concretezza fisicamente esperibile. In queste fotografie, dunque, si fa immagine il concetto stesso di fluidità, di divenire, che è stato anche alla base di alte riflessioni filosofiche e che qui si misura con la solidità delle porzioni di terra che costituiscono l’altro indubbio protagonista di queste scene.
Si stagliano da soli, talvolta, dominando la composizione, autentici totem naturali quando ripresi in primissimo piano, più domestiche apparizioni quando si affacciano all’orizzonte, sorta di sculture o di giardini sospesi sull’acqua, apparizioni di sovrannaturale grazia unita però a una non minore stabilità, dove risulta evidente un’ulteriore matrice iconografica, di stampo orientale, che costruisce il senso sul vuoto anziché sul pieno (14,26,29).
Oppure, vivono come personaggi sul palcoscenico costruito per l’appunto dalla superficie marina, ognuno con la propria conformazione, con la propria identità, verrebbe quasi da dire, salvo che nel caso di due fotografie in chiusura del volume, dove la nebbia impedisce la lettura della singola forma e trasforma le rocce in apparizioni fantasmatiche, in disegni la cui consistenza è pari a quella della luce, e non a quella della materia di cui sono fatte. E’, insomma, un autentico gran teatro del mondo, dal quale l’uomo è necessariamente escluso, invitato a guardare quale e quanta meraviglia esista ancora sulla terra, e a rendersi conto di quanto essa vada rispettata e preservata. Poiché, paradossalmente, oggi non è più possibile vedere una tale bellezza senza pensare al rischio che sta correndo l’umanità: non, dunque, un’estetizzazione del reale è quella che emerge da queste fotografie, ma una presa di coscienza, esplicitata attraverso il linguaggio dell’arte. Affinché anche i nostri eredi possano godere di una “solenne bellezza”. “

WATERHEAVEN”, Solemn Beauty by WALTER GUADAGNIN  (engl): 

” Calm waters, often immobile, at times transformed into a purely abstract flat grounds to highlight a determination to connect two different but not incompatible approaches to nature: on the one hand its transformation into pure and ethereal luminosity – which in the end eliminates even the horizon line and any incidental element in the sky; on the other hand the perception of the real that is always bound to matter, to its physically demonstrable concreteness. In these photographs, thus, what becomes the image is the very concept itself of fluidity, of becoming, which was also at the root of high philosophical reflections and which is measured against the solidity of the portions of Earth that represent the other unquestionable protagonist of these scenes. They stand out alone at times, dominating the composition, authentic natural totems when they are shot in the very near foreground, or more domestic apparitions when they appear on the horizon, like sculptures or gardens hanging over the water, apparitions with a supernatural grace that is however combined with a no less important stability, in which another iconographic matrix, of oriental stamp, that constructs the meaning on emptiness rather than on fullness becomes evident (14,26,29). Or alternatively they live like characters on a stage built precisely on the marine surface, each one with his own structure, one might almost say, except in the case of two photographs at the end of the book, in which the mist makes it impossible to interpret the individual form and transforms the rocks into phantasmal apparitions, into designs in which the substance is equal to that of the light, and not to that of the matter of which they are formed. It is, in short, an authentic great theatre of the world, from which man is necessarily excluded, invited to look at what and how much marvel still exists on Earth, and to become aware of just how much this deserves to be respected and preserved. Because, paradoxically, nowadays it is no longer possible to see such beauty without thinking of the risk that mankind is running: thus it is not a beautifying of the real that emerges from these photos, but a dawning realisation expressed clearly by the language of art. So that even our successors may enjoy a “solemn beauty”. “

Size cm 30 x 30
Hard cover – printed March 2019
Foreword by Walter Guadagnini
Text  Francesco Bosso
31 plates black & white
Publisher SILVANA EDITORIALE
Language: English, Italian
ISBN 978-88-366-4338-7
Signed copy by the author

THE BEAUTY BETWEEN ORDER AND DISORDER, 56^ Biennale di Venezia – PRESENT NEARNESS

The search for an artist of contemporary photography, where aesthetics meet technical rigor and conceptual caliber. Francesco Bosso presents a selection of works, from the latest series “After Dark”, together with a recollection from previous works, through a different reading, bringing out a transversal perspective never before revealed. A vision of the complex dynamics of Nature that we are accustomed to classify as ORDERS and DISORDERS, where apparently chaotic forms hide surprising rhythms of regularity, where moments nest in other moments, where fragmented landscapes, moving dunes, sculpted rocks, rough waters, they chase each other alternating moments of Order with moments of Disorder.

In the “visions” of Bosso there is a non-univocal perception where the scene is continually decomposed and recomposed, where one can glimpse by changing one’s point of view, the Order that governs Disorder.

His concept of landscape has the harmonious breath of romantic painting, metabolized and sized on the contemporary weight of photographic vision. He has always preferred the modular black and white, made up of many variations of gray and of the intermediate tonal scales. His expression thinks in a pictorial way, inside the powerful naturism of the uncontaminated landscape. A methodical and very slow view, the result of long waits in selected places, of precious materials on which to print, techniques with infinitesimal calibrations.

size cm. 24 x 20
soft cover – printed April 2015
foreword by Walter Guadagnini
58 photos black & white
Centro Culturale Candiani
language English, Italian

A White Tale

It is a world so high, compared to us, that we do not hear its sound …. This is why white strikes us, like a great silence that seems absolute to us. In this sense, white loses its color character, preferring instead the character of whiteness, abstract and open to linguistic contamination with terms such as “pure”. White as the absence of sound. The place of purity. Place of nothingness and of the invisible.

This time the style and the views of boxwood are unmistakable, known for his black and white photographs the result of years of research around the world. “Americas” is the turning point of the Artist iconography, from reportage to landscape loud at times sparse and open spaces shaped by wind and water or angles metropolis full of humanity, but devoid of human presence or known icons of the American landscape alternating to unpublished dreamlike visions.

“Boxwood interested in ethnology and the relations between nations presents us with its icons all humanity, sensitivity and delicacy of these. His images, with the depth of the tones and the ability to merge man with the landscape, remind me in some ways those of Salgado I hosted Sicof and I was honored to meet and follow on many occasions including the major exhibition Arles “. Lanfranco Colombo.

size cm. 22 x 22
soft cover – printed February 2017
foreword by Walter Guadagnini
texts Rosalba Branà, Antonio Frugis
Fonfazione Museo Pino Pascali
language Italian
ISBN 978-88-942413-0-3

Last Diamonds

Inspired by the aggravating damage of environmental pollution, the project’s aim is to denounce the melting of glaciers due to climate change. In light of such issues, I would like to offer my contribution to stop the melting of glaciers and to encourage the public to adhere to an ethic of Conservation of Nature, since we cannot afford to destroy it. The images display the beauty of the Arctic through the emblematic icons of the big icebergs, which let viewers think about the unique characteristics of such sites.

Icebergs now becoming increasingly rare, precious jewels of nature at risk of extinction. Although they have a short life, sometimes just a few weeks, they are as majestic as rocky mountains, unavoidably beaten and sculpted by wind and water, creating new shapes unabated By emphasizing the gravity of ice melting, the dialogue between Art and Environment can facilitate the big change toward conservation. Sustainability requires innovative ways of dealing with Nature, which is necessary to avoid “the point of no return”!

size cm. 30 x 30
hard cover – printed October 2017
foreword by Filippo Maggia
texts Luca Mercalli, F. Bosso
25 photos black & white
publisher SKIRA Photography
language English, Italian
ISBN 978-88-572-3672-8
Signed copy by the author

Silver White Calendar 2012

13 stylish black and white photographs in the series Silver White printed in high quality limited edition of 100 copies, numbered and signed by the Author.
SILVER WHITE – ALL COLORS WHITE

While it is true that nature is dominated by the color is not at all easy to try to grasp what because the sea can be blue or indigo and turquoise, sky blue as well as pink, orange, fiery red, a mountain can have metallic shades, a forest reflect the infinite shades of green. Things change when to deal with the natural world, the photographer chooses to use the black and white so as to force the viewer to enter into a universe of references loads of charm a bit ‘mysterious.

Francesco Bosso is a careful student of classical photography well composed and printed by him strictly for the plasticity and the spectacular care to the American School of Ansel Adams and Edward Weston of which is stated connoisseur. The images reveal his personal perception of nature as a pristine place, almost the opposite – as you can imagine the utter lack of human figures – one in which we live. His landscapes are bathed in silence, appearing as faint visions, evoking a rarefied atmosphere, take on a grandeur that you can not escape. These all natural paradises surface, the solid ice, the milky sea, the positions of the mystery of the desert, the compact design of the sky, come to resemble one. And ‘the effect of a black and white all played on the lighter shades where what appears to be the volumes created by the many shades of gray and white dall’abbacinante appearance. The photographs of “Silver White” indicate a few seemingly simple elements – a snow-covered tree that stands up to the sky, two dunes that are pursued in a web of geometries, a slit opening in the ice – and yet are able to pass a subtle charm, the nature reserve as a gift to those who can observe, describe, interpret it.

SILVER WHITE WALL CALENDAR 2012
13 photos black & white
publisher ISBN
Signed copy by the author

China Crossing

CHINA CROSSING … literally across China from west to east is the spirit of this report. Looking for imagesthat tell the other side and the contrasts of this Great Country.
The goal has been investigating the reality of Xinjiangh, the ‘frontier’ in West China.

In these places, different ethnic groups lived together for centuries, Minorities of the Silk Road, came herefrom Europe and its neighboring countries, so it is easy to meet Uyghurs, Mongolians, Kazakhs, Tatars, Uzbeks, Kyrgyz and of course to Yan, “CHINA CROSSING” wants to put a face to these minorities. A series of images showing the extraordinary case of BAI, NAXI, HANI, HUI, DAI AINI, bulang, only a few of the 57minorities that live in China, and exhibitions which preserve their ethnic roots, religious and cultural.

A rural culture where the faces carved with wrinkles looks intense witness the lifestyle but at the sametime the serenity with which these peoples face their daily life.

Hardcover cm. 24×32
89 photos duotone plates
publisher Castelvecchi
ISBN 88-7615-156-7

Sassi e Calanchi

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A succession of images, displayed in this extraordinary gallery revealing a respectful approach to theunusual theme of urban Matera, an approach that gives the feeling of a jump between the stairs and streets, houses and caves, collected neighborhoods and scenic open space by bringing out primary elements of such beauty and complexity.

In the “travel through” the icons of the exhibition reveals a world still unexplored rivers and Badlands. Anatural frame from which protrude countries fairytale Pisticci with its terraced houses, overlooking thevalley Basento, then Cracow, the “country walk” with the square tower placed on the rock pouncing aroundlike a sentry armed with what were churches and palaces.
Stigliano, Gorgoglione, Cirigliano with its circular tower and then down the hill to the bottom of the valley ofSauro and Agri with spectacular badlands of Aliano, Tursi and Montalbano.
The choice of the Black & White emphasizes the authentic approach and the renunciation of spectacular to better bring out the reality of these places with the amazing tool that has the power.

size cm. 24×30
53 photos duotone plates
publisher Castelvecchi
ISBN 887615148-6

Swahili Ritratti Africani

<< … In an increasingly multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and inter-dependent, it is increasingly urgent to learn how to deal with the altro.Francesco Boxwood offers us a rich documentation, careful and punctual on the Maasai, Wa-arusha, Zulu, Datog, Hadzabe, populations located between Kenya, Tanzania,Zimbabwe and South Africa, which is in the heart of the cradle of Humankind. … >>

With these words LANFRANCO COLOMBO describes “Swahili” a photo exhibition and a book, 66 black and white photos, a report geo-ethnographic Francesco Bosso which offers a cross-section of African life withattention to the tribal cultures of the south-east of the continent.

A photographic story of those who use the means of delivering incomparable emotions experienced, Africa and its popolo..terra unknown and mysterious, are revealed in an exemplary fashion to extremes unmatchedaccuracy through these moments captured by the lens.

And so the book becomes a story of real life … that few know … but, instead, ought to be voiced in all its richness … natural source of culture and tradition. Photographs dreamers and connoisseurs.

96 pages cm.23×27
68 photos duotone plates
publisher Electa Napoli
ISBN 8851001472
Signed copy by the author

Americas

A fine volume with quality printing, introduction by Roberto Mutti known critic and journalist of the “Republic”. “Americas” is the new and unusual photographic project designed by Francesco Bosso, shots starting in 2006 during frequent trips to the United States and the author to devote two years of intensive research and hard work of perfecting the images, all strictly in black and black.

This time the style and the views of boxwood are unmistakable, known for his black and white photographs the result of years of research around the world. “Americas” is the turning point of the Artist iconography, from reportage to landscape loud at times sparse and open spaces shaped by wind and water or angles metropolis full of humanity, but devoid of human presence or known icons of the American landscape alternating to unpublished dreamlike visions.

“Boxwood interested in ethnology and the relations between nations presents us with its icons all humanity, sensitivity and delicacy of these. His images, with the depth of the tones and the ability to merge man with the landscape, remind me in some ways those of Salgado I hosted Sicof and I was honored to meet and follow on many occasions including the major exhibition Arles “. Lanfranco Colombo.

Hardcover cm.29×30
41 photos black & white
publisher FAUSTO LUPETTI
ISBN 9788895962702
Signed copy by the author

White World

In ‘WHITE WORLD’ the author reveals his personal perception of nature seen as an uncontaminated place in contrast with the world we live in, landscapes characterized by silence, the appearance of evanescent visions, that evoke rarefied atmospheres, a grandeur from which you cannot escape.
The portfolio white world represents a series of pictures taken in various places, different from one another and distant from each other, but sharing a particular tone of research, a selection of images taken from various works that extend from the snowy stretches of St Moritz to the dunes of Grand Erg going through the salt valleys and the sculptured rocks of the Seychelles Islands, a way of looking at nature far from the stereotypes, reminding the observers of how precious is this good world and urging us to keep it intact.
Photographs byFrancesco Bosso
Refined Italian photographer known for his landscape and travels photography. His photos have been shown at various exhibitions both in Italy and abroad, always in prestigious places such as the Museum of Photography in Brescia, or the Angioino Castle in Naples. The palace of Province in Bari, Palace Besta of Teglio, ‘ Castle del Monte’ in Andria, or the Swabian Castle in Barletta.
Other publications by the same author :Americas, Sassi e Calanchi , China Crossing, Swahili.
Introduction by Roberto Mutti
Historian and critic of Art, journalist for ‘La Repubblica’, he writes for various magazines of Photography -Arts
author of various critiques of well known Italian Photographers, Editor of several exhibitions
Foreword by Gianluca Marziani
Critic of Art , Editor at international levels , Art Director of Museum of Visual Arts in Spoleto-
Designer and Editor Terna prize Representative of Italy Stand -Biennale Exhibition in Venice in 2011

Size cm 30×30
hardbound cover
36 photos three colors
publisher FAUSTO LUPETTI EDITORE
ISBN 978-88-97686-43-9
Signed copy by the author