Biography
Christian Cremona was born in Tradate, a city in the province of Varese in the Lombardy region of northern Italy, on September 10, 1985. Cremona made his first creative foray into the contemporary art world upon completion of his secondary school degree, working chiefly in the areas of design, etching and painting. In 2008, Cremona shifted his artistic exploration to the field of photography. A student of pictorialism, he also delved into the photographic philosophies of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and the Futurist photodynamism of Anton Giulio Bragaglia. In the wake of these experiences, Cremona asked himself whether it might be possible to bridle and wield the power of light using the intellectual approach of a sculptor with a predominantly painterly visual idiom: an active visual language, capable of trapping the instant of creation present in light itself. Posing this question led Cremona to develop an original technique for his own photography that he refined in the years that followed, resulting in a unique artistic style deftly capable of capturing transcendence. Following, too, the path marked out by the peintre-graveur – famous for introducing outside influences into the field of the graphic arts – Cremona sought to use his camera as a revealer of the “ideal image”, hidden and primordial: an image buried in the most secret spaces of mankind, which light has the task of drawing out in its nakedness and originality, comprised of form and spirit. -Translated by Laura Godorecci ©-
