Publications

Dance Notes

“Dance Notes” (ISBN: 9788894378016 | Anemos Publishing House);
Alessandro Vasapolli, text by Vera Canevazzi, introduction by Valerio Consonni.

Extract from the Introduction by Valerio Consonni

Alessandro Vasapolli is three people in one: the artist, the scientist and the artisan.
Difficult, but mostly inadequate, is to relegate Vasapolli’s art to a single category, such as photography. His works make evident how this artist is a cultured, eclectic person, immersed in the world of art in the fullness of his creative energy, utilising different but complementary languages.

To separate the artist-photographer from the technical-artisanal dimension would be an inaccurate and inadequate way to examine and describe his creative production.
A complex but delicate technique, unimaginable until you see the “behind the scenes”, just like the body when in full health remains unperceived, invisible to us.
What you see of his work is just the tip of the iceberg, so much more hides under the surface of the water. A visit to his studio allows one to see beyond that edge, to better understand the true breadth and depth of his works. Such a view is a chance to discover new themes and expressions within contemporary photography.
A personal and emotional component shines clearly through connecting his visual stylistic expression with a technical exploration at the limit of reason, among the most advanced in the world of photography and beyond.

Valerio Consonni

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DéVoilées

“DéVoilées” (ISBN: 9788894378009 | Anemos Publishing House);
Alessandro Vasapolli, text by da Valerio Consonni.

Preface by Valerio Consonni

Alessandro Vasapolli’s project “DéVoilées” is composed of 27 pictures.

The essential traits that have influenced his poetic have to be found in his scientific modus operandi blended with a love for humanities. An attentive observation of the work leads to the intuition of a temporality unrelated to history and single cultures.The images become the visible and partial fragments of an invisible and vast reality; they are expressions of poetic energy murmured through the lightness of forms and subtlety of colors. Slowly, an almost crystalline solidity of the backgrounds emerges, the fine research for the posture of the bodies, the randomness of a veil or of a crease of the skirt… The tresses are reminiscent of algae, floating anemones, spiral volutes, and acanthus-adorned capitals… Then, there are the veils. They appear to drop from the sky, pierced by a gleam that alights and overflows like water on a riverbank.

The Ancients teach that Nature loves to hide.
The event unfolds at the heart, the very depth of the work. As we immerse ourselves in an emotional universe, it is incumbent on us to weave threads together. Our task is to lift the veils, to search for a secret path, an unveiling.

Vasapolli’s research unifies art and reflection, imagination and reality, space and bodies, in an attempt to give expression and shape to something mysterious that escapes words.