Edoardo Romagnoli. L'una Luna

The project involves the exposure of a photograph Vintage 1991, already exhibited in the same year at the Aperture Gallery in Milan, flanked by a series of works created especially for the exhibition. The recurring theme of the photographic works of Romagnoli, the moon, interacts in this exhibition with a series of photographs of different subject choices among the recent production of the artist, and a series of small format reproductions of doodles in both original and reproduction through printing fine art.

Unexpected new moon
There is an invisible thread that holds everything related doodles drawing in and out of our lives. An artist fishing in the casket of his deepest being, where is the lifeblood of his inspiration. And where are moving currents that perhaps he himself ignores it. Edward Romagnoli lines in diptychs and triptychs images and designs - fine doodle result of automatic writing - by connecting the moon to the most unknown motions of his spirit. Heaven and earth, inner and outer, spirit and matter are a temporary consolidation.

The marks left by a hand wriggling, curious, restless connect smoothly, with surprising ease, the nerve of that satellite trails billion times and always observed but still inexplicable. Romagnoli chasing the moon, the queries, the peers from different angles every time creating a formal continuity with his other beautiful images. Expressions different artistic dialogue to give us what only art can give. Mysterious twists, sudden jerks, hot color burst and interrupted, as the awakening of a volcano or the unexpected irruption of the unconscious. A journey of emotions that lead us in ourselves and at the same time we open up to the grandeur of the universe, with a breath that beat joyfully, with elegance, the abyss, the abyss all.
Roberta Folatti

Romagnoli Edward was born in Milan in 1952. Started taking photographs during his travels and for several years he devoted himself to reportage. The nineties develops its own research staff and exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including "Masters of Photography" at the Guggenheim in Venice in 2005. His teachers include: Giulio Confalonieri, designer of the most significant , master of aesthetics and life; John Goodman, photographer, artist and a great communicator.

The first photo of the moon dates back to 1988 and represents the beginning of his work as artistic research. The moon is the subject of a relentless observation; Romagnoli makes the protagonist of his long trials renewing every time you shoot the original charm that kidnaps him. The work aimed at the moon is in constant development and deepens over time as an increasingly close dialogue, never dwell on the results obtained.

A wide range dedicated graphics architecture demonstrates a thorough search and composition: "Station Cen ¬ tral," "Steam Factory", "Bridges". In other series the artist expresses the charm and magic of light: "Luna", "New Year's Eve in London", "sand", "NY" and "Trees".

The book "Olives" of 2002, deals with the concept of time and analyzes developments along an entire year; fol ¬ sively in the book "999" time imprisoned explodes in 15 minutes of thunder and flashes to announce the arrival of a new millennium.
The idea of ??movement Other works: the "Races", in which the artist uses movement to distract the photographic subject and grasp its naturalness; work "Trees", "Luci d'Artista" and others, where the movement is used to achieve a result-metaphysical painting.

Great at ¬ nance and interest in research on the expressiveness of the body are evident in the series "Self Timer", "Performance", "Dreams" and "Portrait in the box."

In parallel to the photographic work develops research on "Doodles", drawings that come out impulsively and automatically while doing another and constitute the primary source of labor. Small establishment always collected by the artist that are reworked in the 90s through the photocopier and today thanks to the most modern techniques of capturing and processing images.

In 1993, the first solo exhibition of just "Doodles" at the Gallery Art & More by Bruno Grossetti (Milan). In 2013, proposes the new work "Doodles in mutation" in "The Others" (Turin), with galleries and Paola Riccardo Costantini Contemporary Sosio Con-temporary Gallery. In 2014 "Photo Graphic" solo exhibition at the Galleria Campari Sesto San Giovanni (MI), in which for the first time presents a selection of "Doodles" and "Moons" in close dialogue with each other.
The job of matching of photographs and "Doodles" continues creating diptychs and triptychs presented to the public in 2014 with Riccardo Costantini Contemporary at the MIA Fair.

Since 2009 regularly participates in national and international fairs.

In 2009, the German publisher Springer has published the book Lune building an extraordinary studied graphic design in 1996 by Giulio Confalonieri for photos of Edward Romagnoli and enriched today by Prof. Piero Bianucci.

Since 2010 participates in the project "White Meditation Room" Grossetti Gallery of Contemporary Art, the work is entirely dedicated to the concept of white, all'estraneazione the nature of matter.

In June 2012, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Strasbourg has acquired two photographs of the Moon.

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