VisionQuesT Contemporary Photography
Piazza Invrea 4R GENOVA
Sir Thomas Overbury in his Poem “A Wife” (1613) wrote:All the carnal beauty of my wife is but skin-deep But how to deal with the eternal fascination of the flesh and the way it is confused with “subcutaneous” issues, especially regarding that most elusive part of the body: the soul?
What is the reason why we want to own a beautiful flower at the peak of its flowering, if one day it will go to lose its petals? We pursue ephemeron at our own peril. Since ancient times we have tried to inhabit an alternative universe, delivering and attributing to superficial beauty functional characteristics to an idea, as for example in the Greek and Roman world where proportion and harmony were not only a sign of beauty, but of goodness and virtue. Kalokagathìa in fact indicated in the Greek culture of the fifth century B.C. the ideal of physical and moral perfection of man. Centuries have changed and the canons and ideas of beauty have not changed the ephemeral qualities, because ephemeral are the canons of evaluation.
SKIN DEEP It is not intended to be a treatise, a detailed and profound analysis of the aesthetics of the meanings attributed to the beauty of the flesh, particularly in art, but to propose the exploration, the desiring drive of six modes of gaze arising from different worlds and realities, that touch the bodies telling us and telling their experiences and their thoughts on the concept of Beauty.