paths – stefano cerio – september 12 casso

paths
by stefano cerio

curated by gianluca d’incà levis
september 12 – november 9, 2014
nuovo spazio di casso

Opening, Friday September the 12th, 6:30 pm

In the month of July 2014, Stefano Cerio has worked in Casso, and in Borca di Cadore to the Paths project, which becomes now his personal exhibit at the Spazio di Casso. The artwork has been realized through a period of residence in Casso, during which the artist has explored the territory, focusing his attention on the paths in the area between Casso and Erto.
The photographic work portrays a series of natural settings, characterized by the presence of trails, some of whose details have been individuated, and isolated.

Actually, they’re not photographic portraits, but a reflection on the interaction between space of the landscape and the interventions of the human, which marks such a passage through the apposition of signs and traces, acting it. In the pictures, printed in large format, the path often becomes hardly recognizable, only deducible. It’s not about representing a physical itinerary, but abstracting it, in some measure, visually amplifying the meaning of these minimal spaces of the human-made landscape.
Closed spaces, which are taken away from the open landscape, and fixed on a dimension of augmented iconicity. The images have been captured during the night, with the help of a powerful artificial lighting system, to create a reduced field of action, and attraction, to dig them out from the quiet and deserted darkness of the environment, in the moment in which the environment itself is not in use. The human responsible for the (minimal) transformations of these isolated offcuts of landscape, is absent from the snapshots, or rather, is present in absence: the signs placed on the itineraries recall it.
Horizontal and vertical itineraries, by paths or ropes, trails and roads, places of the human, human-made and human- modified, along one’s own way and journey, and from which the human itself is sparked, leaving them behind, to its wake.

Opening times
From Tuesday to Sunday 10 am – 12:30 pm/ 3 pm – 7 pm
Closed on Mondays