Arte Magazine - May 2012

Thirty years, Catania, Rosario Leotta after studying classical approaches to the design. The next photograph is a choice. Dealt with a little 'reserves because on principle it seems to him that can offer only "a reality already given, limited," he explains. Precisely for this reason he chose the digital start using it to distort as much as possible the actual data. Now realized that the images (the ones that won him the gold plate for photography Art Prize last) comes through a process of drying, filing down the excess, redundant details. And by removing the color. Now the digital reworking is relegated to the effects of light and shade, with a system that gives results similar to those of the traditional darkroom.

WHITE AND BLACK.

Today his works are marked in a bright black and white, reminiscent of images of the U.S. Rocky Schenck marry without the coldness coated. In portraits the choice is for the most part of the extreme angle, perhaps from above, of raw cuts that exclude part of the figure, or of a blur that makes vague understanding of the subject.

MOON.

In the landscapes we read a surreal undercurrent. It is sometimes relegated to a single detail, like a balloon that hovers in a stormy sky; elsewhere is in the range of unexpected shot, which turns the cliffs of Agrigento Scala dei Turchi in an anthill crawling with tiny figures in silhouette, the lower , while the sky occupies almost the entire space. In some works, then, the real figure is left to build images haunted, moon, inhabited by characters who seem alien actors in a circus.