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Pergola, Storie tra il cielo e il mare, curated by Stefano Verri, Casa Sponge, February 2024
Pergola, Storie tra il cielo e il mare, curated by Stefano Verri, Casa Sponge, February 2024
Guarene, Set up of the exhibition Da Guarene all’Etna 03, May 2003
Tealight is a series of eight photographs of night insects that have fallen into a tealight candle because they had been attracted by the light of the flame.
In 2001 I had collected dozens of tealights that insects had fallen into, and ultimately wound up embedded in paraffin wax. The close-up view enhances the aesthetics of this strange deathbed full of mythological references.
© Cristiano Berti
2024
Eight macro photographs of night insects that have fallen into a tealight candle.
The candles come from the installation Natura morta made in 2001, with many other tealights.
Tealight (2003): Eight photographs, each forming an individual work
Durst Lambda on Ilford – Ilfoflex, cm 40×40. Edition of 25 + 2 AP
Photographs by Piero Ottaviano
2024
Storie tra il cielo e il mare, curated by Stefano Verri, Blu: Il colore della cuccagna, Casa Sponge, Pergola, Italy
2004
Da Guarene all’Etna. Via mare via terra, curated by Filippo Maggia, Empedocle Restivo Civic Gallery of Modern Art, Palermo, Italy
2003
Da Guarene all’Etna – 03, curated by Filippo Maggia, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo, Guarene, Italy
Blu: Il colore della cuccagna. Sulla via del guado tra storia e contemporaneo, Imola: Manfredi (ISBN 979-12-80049-86-5), 2024, p. 136