Video: Shadow Parade by Italian photographer Nicol Vizioli
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The works of the famous 17th century Italian artist Caravaggio are based on the powerful contrast of light and shadow, emphasizing the expressive simplicity of the characters' facial expressions and gestures. Our contemporary photographer Nicol Vizioli manages to achieve the same effect with a lens. Her photographs combine tenebrism and realism with an admixture of the author's fantasies, expressed in a deliberately staged manner of photographs.
Visioli uses the technique of chiaroscuro, creating mythical-pagan or fairy-tale-mythical compositions, in which the world of people and animals returns to the origins of their heritage.
Here is what Nicole herself says about a series of her works:
Nicole Visoli shared excerpts of her thoughts with a reporter for a well-known magazine.
What inspires you to take pictures? How would you describe the creative process?
The picture, titled "Madonna", looks like a modern version of the Virgin Mary, the image of which can be found in some churches in Italy. Does this background influence your work, inspire or distort your view of things?
Most of your photos are dark enough, but there is a disturbing beauty in them that makes me think about Burke's “sublime”. In a nutshell, the viewer is attracted to your work, but also intimidating at the same time. Is this exactly what you were trying to achieve?
You can get to Italy in the 15th-16th centuries by asking for a visit to the self-taught artist Robert Burns, who turned his house into a room the Renaissance.
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