La Fine del Principio
Mexico - May 2020
Angelo Cricchi
Shakespeare and Me
Shakespeare is one of my major sources of inspiration and runs through my entire production. In two recent works, created for FLEWID, I freely drew inspiration from Riccardo III and the Midsummer Night's Dream.
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Traditori
Betrayal always has the possibility of a double reading. Some traitors of the homeland turn to it depending on who wins the next war, becoming traitors or heroes according to the epilogue. Even cheating is considered as such when looking from the side of the betrayed while often in the narrative, the pair of young lovers becomes the protagonist of a romantic fairy tale in spite of the betrayal (Lancelot and Geneva with King Arthur). Shakespeare is the one who makes the selection. Brutus and Cassius in Julius Caesar, the perfidious Jago in the Othello, King Claudius slayer of Hamlet, Richard III and the Macbeth’s spouses sip blood in their endless wickedness, paying the price between ghosts, dark feelings of guilt and suicide. Even the traitor per excellence, Judas, kills himself. For some he is a saint, for others a deicide.
But without him the passion and crucifixion of Christ could not have existed. Myth par excellence. My work started from Judah. From a personal crucifixion that has become a work. I chose to set this series of photos of scorned beings in natural environments. There is often a central tree in the composition. Nature as a neutral space. Being historical characters, many are in costume, but with small notes and omissions that denounce their contemporaneity. The betrayed is almost always absent. Or is hidden in the back. The loneliness and anguish of those who deceive themselves first is what interests me. Not to forget.
Incarnato
“Incarnato – Et amare amabam” draws inspiration from the "Confessions" of St. Augustine. The work aims to represent the relationship between flesh and holiness through imaginary portraits of Catholic martyrs, Greek, Egyptian, and Scandinavian gods and the Brazilian and Cuban syncretic saints.
Musa
The project aims to update the portrait of an artist in vogue in painting and photography of the twentieth century, through the involvement of different personalities from various creative sectors. Musa, focuses on the meeting between nineteen contemporary artists who opened the doors of their studios, granted as locations, to representatives of the world of entertainment. Beautiful women relate to the artists through the spaces and with their movement, captured in the images taken by Cricchi, to speak and let the art studios as well as the works that inhabit them speak. Each of the women portrayed uses their own language, deriving from their background as actresses, gymnasts or musicians and establishing an ad hoc dialectic with the figurative artist from time to time questioning it. These are harmonic combinations that seem destined to happen, each of the women portrayed presents themselves, in fact, as a "muse" in relation to the artist to whom they relate.
Painted Ladies
The "Painted Ladies" are totally naked and in absolutely explicit positions and attitudes. At the same time the monochrome color that covers them spreads a patina of unreality which, increased by the total darkness that surrounds them, reduces them to plastic figurines, erotic sculptures, plaster dolls. Color is not given uniformly. Some are more material, others more polished. The shapes of the bodies are all diferent. The accompanying items are minimal. I need strings or other tools to increase plasticity. To suspend, to stretch, to force.
Some "Painted" have references to real or fantasy animals, obtained by adorning bodies with small hairy attributes.
Gloomy Sunday
The photographs that make "Gloomy Sunday" series are the representation of some unforgettable women who have in common a complex life and a tragic end. They are women of art, cinema, music, literature and history, immortal Muses such as Sylvia Plath, Jean Seberg, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Wolf, Capucine, Magda Goebbels, Cleopatra and imaginary women born from the imagination of writers, like Emma Bovary, Madame Butterfly, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth.
Fifty images, halfway between the real and the imaginary; sophisticated, poetic and full of references and quotes which were made possible by fifty women today. Actresses, photographers, writers, directors, artists and ordinary women, who interpreted these disturbing heroines of their time.
The title Gloomy Sunday is inspired by a Hungarian song from the 1930s which was banned from British and American radios because it seems to stimulate listeners to suicide.
La Fine del Principio
Mexico - May 2020
Angelo Cricchi
Shakespeare and Me
Shakespeare is one of my major sources of inspiration and runs through my entire production. In two recent works, created for FLEWID, I freely drew inspiration from Riccardo III and the Midsummer Night's Dream.
Midwinter Nights Dream 01 (2018)
Midwinter Night’s Dream 03 (2018)
Tomorrow in the Battle Think of Me 01 (2019)
Tomorrow in the Battle Think of Me 02 (2019)
Tomorrow in the Battle Think of Me 04 (2019)
Tomorrow in the Battle Think of Me 05 (2019)
Traditori
Betrayal always has the possibility of a double reading. Some traitors of the homeland turn to it depending on who wins the next war, becoming traitors or heroes according to the epilogue. Even cheating is considered as such when looking from the side of the betrayed while often in the narrative, the pair of young lovers becomes the protagonist of a romantic fairy tale in spite of the betrayal (Lancelot and Geneva with King Arthur). Shakespeare is the one who makes the selection. Brutus and Cassius in Julius Caesar, the perfidious Jago in the Othello, King Claudius slayer of Hamlet, Richard III and the Macbeth’s spouses sip blood in their endless wickedness, paying the price between ghosts, dark feelings of guilt and suicide. Even the traitor per excellence, Judas, kills himself. For some he is a saint, for others a deicide.
But without him the passion and crucifixion of Christ could not have existed. Myth par excellence. My work started from Judah. From a personal crucifixion that has become a work. I chose to set this series of photos of scorned beings in natural environments. There is often a central tree in the composition. Nature as a neutral space. Being historical characters, many are in costume, but with small notes and omissions that denounce their contemporaneity. The betrayed is almost always absent. Or is hidden in the back. The loneliness and anguish of those who deceive themselves first is what interests me. Not to forget.
Re Claudio (2015)
Sansone & Dalilah (2014)
Il Conte Ugolino (2015)
Caino & Abele (2015)
Bruto e Cassio (2015)
Lady Macbeth (2015)
Incarnato
“Incarnato – Et amare amabam” draws inspiration from the "Confessions" of St. Augustine. The work aims to represent the relationship between flesh and holiness through imaginary portraits of Catholic martyrs, Greek, Egyptian, and Scandinavian gods and the Brazilian and Cuban syncretic saints.
Anna Frank (2013)
Isis (2011)
Joan D'arc (2012)
Sant'Eurosia Di Jaca (2013)
Santa Barbara (2012)
Santa Veronica (2010)
Musa
The project aims to update the portrait of an artist in vogue in painting and photography of the twentieth century, through the involvement of different personalities from various creative sectors. Musa, focuses on the meeting between nineteen contemporary artists who opened the doors of their studios, granted as locations, to representatives of the world of entertainment. Beautiful women relate to the artists through the spaces and with their movement, captured in the images taken by Cricchi, to speak and let the art studios as well as the works that inhabit them speak. Each of the women portrayed uses their own language, deriving from their background as actresses, gymnasts or musicians and establishing an ad hoc dialectic with the figurative artist from time to time questioning it. These are harmonic combinations that seem destined to happen, each of the women portrayed presents themselves, in fact, as a "muse" in relation to the artist to whom they relate.
Catrinel Menghia Marlon (2015)
Lia Parolari (2015)
Giulia Bevilacqua (2015)
Isabella Ragonese (2015)
Rocío Muñoz Morales (2015)
Laura Gigante (2015)
Muses Of Pizzicannella (2015)
Painted Ladies
The "Painted Ladies" are totally naked and in absolutely explicit positions and attitudes. At the same time the monochrome color that covers them spreads a patina of unreality which, increased by the total darkness that surrounds them, reduces them to plastic figurines, erotic sculptures, plaster dolls. Color is not given uniformly. Some are more material, others more polished. The shapes of the bodies are all diferent. The accompanying items are minimal. I need strings or other tools to increase plasticity. To suspend, to stretch, to force.
Some "Painted" have references to real or fantasy animals, obtained by adorning bodies with small hairy attributes.
Black Mermaid (2017)
Dragonfly (2015)
Lilac, Yellow, Green (2014)
Lumen Et Umbra (2014)
Lung (Chinese Dragoon 2016)
Peryton (2017)
Spiderrat (2015)
Shivabel (2015)
Gloomy Sunday
The photographs that make "Gloomy Sunday" series are the representation of some unforgettable women who have in common a complex life and a tragic end. They are women of art, cinema, music, literature and history, immortal Muses such as Sylvia Plath, Jean Seberg, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Wolf, Capucine, Magda Goebbels, Cleopatra and imaginary women born from the imagination of writers, like Emma Bovary, Madame Butterfly, Ophelia and Lady Macbeth.
Fifty images, halfway between the real and the imaginary; sophisticated, poetic and full of references and quotes which were made possible by fifty women today. Actresses, photographers, writers, directors, artists and ordinary women, who interpreted these disturbing heroines of their time.
The title Gloomy Sunday is inspired by a Hungarian song from the 1930s which was banned from British and American radios because it seems to stimulate listeners to suicide.