Luciano Romano
The exhibit will feature his most recent photographic works which centre around the theme of stairs in a metaphoric representation of man’s continuous quest for the absolute and the transcendent as symbolized by the cumbersome, opaque stone leading to the brilliance of the sky. While grandiose, articulated and imposing, an intimate, direct relationship with the physical world is maintained through the viewer’s perception which is re-dimensioned with each step.
The works of Luciano Romano do not portray spaces with defined identities, but rather those of the spirit, possible passages between the material and the spiritual worlds emphasized by a conflicting interplay of light and shadow. Photography is the language which best suits this process of transfiguration as it captures and destabilizes our view in a play of unexpected combinations of lustre and geometric representations of the visible world and a reoccurring oneiric vision.
In his photographs, elements of reality give way to the obsessive vertigo of mental images evoking forms in pursuit of one another in a sort of hypnotic procession and ramps of stairs climbing towards a blinding luminescence or plunging into the darkness of a bottomless pit. These physical spaces inevitably allude to our moods or the state of our souls.