ALESSANDRA QUATTORDIO
ALESSANDRA QUATTORDIO
AD Photo – February
Among the works of Francesco Bosso exhibited in Milan at the exhibition “Silver White, edited by Roberto Mutti, stand out those that the artist dedicated to winter Engadine. That may sound like a tribute to Albert Steiner, author in the mid ‘900 exciting visions the alpine valley, but in fact the work of Boxwood, attributable to the genus “portrait”, albeit landscape photographs are configured mainly as close up of snow cover along the dellInn. they are part of the journey made by the artist in the world “white “party from the mountains of salt of Margherita di Savoia, in the Apulia region of his birth. Now his goal” sinks “in the crystal snow surface to capture its essence, whispering stories of rarefied icy spell.
Alessandra Quattordio
FAUSTO RASCHIATORE
FAUSTO RASCHIATORE
by FOTOLOGIE “Profili d’Autore”
… Bosso, in every work builds a mosaic of visual sequences with which tells the essence of the places chosen in all possible joints. The result is a notebook of pictures that describes – through a web iconic attention to tonal values, composition, contents, forms in the signs – the feelings, perceptions, memory, and thus the imprinting of our times..
CHIARA GATTI (Repubblica)
CHIARA GATTI
by Repubblica – 13 luglio 2007
Do not expect rivers of colorful bicycles and armies of people upside down in the streets, doing morning exercises on the sidewalks of Beijing or Shanghai. This is not the China that has seen and photographed Francesco Bosso in his lengthy report that has lasted several years and I wanted to show you a taste, these days, Space design, museum & library Warehouse Cargo … episodes of a journey that his images printed on paper to the jelly of ‘silver, recalling with intensity, a bit‘ like the pages of Tiziano Terzani.
Images that speak to peoples stories, minorities, religions, as well as episodes of everyday life. Men and women Francesco Bosso met and known, emerging from the routes canons to undertake a ‘human adventure, that his photos return generating immediate involvement.
ROBERTO MUTTI
ROBERTO MUTTI
by China Crossing
… China of Francesco Bosso is instead still, almost unpredictable, mysterious. As from the rational point of view the recognition of the immense size and the inevitable internal diversification in this country, psychologically we all allowed to reduce it to a now stereotypical yesterday the crowd that filled monochromatic walk or bike through the streets of Beijing or Shanghay, today’s flood of signs and advertising on the new skyscrapers that has arisen. Francesco Bosso choose, instead, into a more authentic that comes from his attending places but also a deliberate choice, to deepen the reality with the powerful tool that it is the camera to bring it out in all its contradictions. …
Rarely Boxwood focuses on landscapes, but when it does manage to point out – as standard on the beautiful terraces, to give just one example – the aesthetic sense that was already in the works of classical painting done in shades that contrasts and atmosphere labile rather than realistic stories …