Agostino Osio, OLTRE ORIZZONTI

Room 7

The images presented are part of a larger project whose protagonists are the tree and the horizon.
The first, in its verticality, is proposed as a spiritual bridge between heaven and earth.
The latter is investigated as a vibrant point of contact between an upward movement towards the sky – which in my work is not a secondary space – and a downward one, towards the earth observed in its primordial matter.
The gaze, crossing the horizon, on the one hand retracts towards some region of myself, on the other it sweeps towards a high and intangible imaginary, the beyond-horizon.
The horizon, as a boundary space and located in the middle of each image, is thus presented as the median and structural line of the four movements.
Along the boundary line rises the mountain. Its base coincides with the earth, with what is material and manifest, but its altitude consecrates it to all that is high and rises towards a superior space.
The photographs presented are the result of the recomposition of several shots, of 9, 12, 15, 16, 20 or 25 images. This solution was dictated by a stylistic challenge, namely to offer a landscape as close as possible to the architecture of the image that only the large 20 x 25 format can render.
Agostino Osio

I would not say Horizons, but Encounters.
Encounters are fundamental to life: crossroads that are turning points or continuations of paths already taken.
The meeting of earth and sky is always there, at a point, on a static line.
Sometimes it is the earth that soars, sometimes it is the sky that descends, low.The point of contact is highly immobile, timeless.
Attilio Maranzano

Agostino Osio was born in 1978 in Milano, where he lives and works.