Ex Chiesa di San Giovanni
Simone Bossi’s photographs are the space. Upon entering the former church of San Giovanni, deconsecrated in the 1930s, one crosses their threshold. Delicately hung in this rarefied and paradoxically ephemeral environment, they repeat, threshold upon threshold, a suspended world. There are important issues in photography between documenting and reproducing that have diminished its meaning, marginalizing it. Strange to say in the historical period of the omnivorous and omnipresent image. Bossi takes a step forward. Like poetry, where small parts of grammar, syntax, spelling, connotations, and words sometimes delicately and wonderfully pull us out of ourselves, so too the defined moment of the partial detail in fixed, unrecognizable astral light and the prints on paper hung here similarly refer to poetry in the absence of information. Suddenly emerging from the field of architectural studies to become a photographer of architecture, as an observer of the built environment capable of capturing the parts in the moments that produce artifice, Bossi has the ability to create printed spaces that are never finished, on the margins, at rest, like the former church of San Giovanni. The exhibition evokes states, not emotions; silence, not exaltation. Therefore, it is important to have time and peace to enjoy it, otherwise, it is not recommended.
R. Blumer
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Rêverie. Exhibition by Simone Bossi curated by Riccardo Blumer, with poetry by Rosso Rota at Ex Chiesa di San Giovanni, via Sant’Agostino, Casciago, Varese, Italy
