DESCRIPTION
Playing among various levels of human identity, subjects dialogue with themselves so that proper choreographies are created in an interplay of glances and movements finally directing to the prime portrait, who contains all of its own simulacrums. Each photograph in this series tells a story, and the setting is always chosen by each subject with relation to his/her own being and passions, so that it becomes like a sort of refugium from an outside world they do not feel like fully belonging to. Proper “places of the mind”, compositions assume symbolic values ranging from art to literature, to esotericism, to politics, in a constant dialogue with memory.
If, on the one hand, the phenomenal datum peculiar to photography fades away, on the other hand a staging stands out where each subject interprets himself/herself in a web of possibilities: a multiple dialogue aimed at becoming, finally, incarnated as the prime portrait, proper director of the composition. Thus, the body of subjects is seen as a mere receptacle of a mosaic of personalities, pointing towards the essence of the portrayed person. Going beyond uniqueness, photography shows different times and points of action, creating a visual collection composed of many little stories.
AUTHOR
Marco Circhirillo was born in 1980 in Parma, where he lives and works. He obtained bachelor’s degree in Art, Theatre and Multimedia at Literature and Philosophy Faculty of University of Parma and master degree in Contemporary Art History, both with full marks.
His expressive research especially regards photography, where his passion for Art History leads him to dialogue with the greatest masters, ranging over various techniques: from analogue to digital, but also to graphics and to installation art. Thus various series are engendered, each of them characterized by formal and expressive peculiarities of its own; often, though, the trait d’union is the inquiry into the theme of the alchemical double.
2014 Limen Arte, Vibo Valentia: 1° classificato – Sezione Autoscatto.
2014 Premio Ritratto di famiglia, Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia: 1° classificato.
2013 Premio Nocivelli, Verolanuova (BS): 3° classificato.
2007 Premio Musae, Catania: Menzione Speciale – Circuito Sicilia.
2014 Ritratti d’Autore, Associazione Remo Gaibazzi, Parma, a cura di P. Barbaro.
2014 Più che ‘l dolor poté ‘l digiuno, Galleria Il Sipario, Parma, a cura di M. Mirabile.
2014 Presentazione monografia Marco Circhirillo. Doppelgänger, a cura di G. Bonomi,Photissima Art Fair, Torino & Feltrinelli, Parma.
