Biography
Giancarlo Bononi, fashion and advertising photographer in his artistic shots chases an ideal of absolute beauty revised through the mental filter of the main pictorial and literary topos with technical perfection acquired through years of experience. His images are designed as if they were figure paintings in which the vibrant depth of the black backgrounds on which stand the characters reminds glazes of oil paint. Each presence is in the right place and position according to the ancient canons of composition, fleshes absorb the light that sculpts the volumes and release it slowly becoming an additional source of light. The bodies of the models occupy space in order to create the lines of force, bend obediently into complex poses without betraying any effort, each gesture is perfect and absolutely necessary. Time seems suspended in a latent dimension that transfigures the humanity of the subjects while also contemporary residuals that remain inscribed in bodies, such as tattoos, faces and hairstyles, help to make immanent the ineffability of myth. The work of Bononi is able to reveal and communicate love for mythology and painting restoring the intact vitality of ancient fables through the search for a cultured and wild interpretation at the same time. The construction of his images pursues a difficult balance between recognition of iconographic sources and exploitation of the potential of photographic medium: the result is a hypnotic, alienating and aggressive image, unclassifiable according to precise canons of time.
