Rites by Antonio Biasiucci

From May 4 to July 28, 2017, the Contemporary Hall Exhibition IULM hosted the exhibition "Riti" entirely organized by the students of Arts, Patrimonies and Markets coordinated by Prof. Anna Luigia De Simone and dedicated to the artistic production of photographer Antonio Biasiucci with a very particular key of interpretation: rituality, understood as a creative and destructive gesture.

The exhibition itinerary set up in IULM, signed by architect Gianluca Peluffo with the management support of the staff of Triennale di Milano, was organized around five significant cycles of the artist's work:

I Vapori, where the human gesture is the fulcrum and triggering force of the ritual. The Impasto, a moment of creation, a gesture that does not take away but rather gives life. In Corpo latteo, a video installation designed especially for this exhibition presented unseen images, capable of immersing viewers a space recalling a womb, where ritual is translated into the obsessive and methodical search for a subject. Next came the Skulls, a material symbol of death, but also a starting point for a new rebirth. Finally, the return to the initial balance, thanks to an ancestral dish synonymous with life, the Loaves, a historical series and here supplemented by unpublished photographs.

Wrapping and accompanying the viewer inside the exhibition is an unpublished sound commentary, written by Antonio Neiwiller, theater director and Biasiucci's teacher, and read by Toni Servillo.