TITLE: Landscapes enclosed in delicate gossamer phials

Stefano Ciol’s diaphanous images, representing labile semblances of snowy or mist-bound landscapes, might be suitably expressed by Eugenio Montale’s definition of old Chinese poetry: “droplets of water which ought to show us an ocean and just remain enclosed in their delicate gossamer phials”. These whites incised with thin grey lines in which “shadow is entangled and breaks”, as a poet of the Tang dynasty wrote at the end of the first millennium AD, also appear affected by the same poetic rarefaction which dissolves the elegant limpid images of a “floating world” in Japanese graphic art. Images like exhalations grazed by a sense of nostalgia, as though steeped in a gentle dream.
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AUTHOR: Stefano Ciol (Italy)

Stefano Ciol, the heir of a photography dynasty, combines personal research with his professional work. He undertakes continual technological updating which leads him to crosspollinate traditional methods with the most recent and advanced ones for the purpose of perfecting correspondence between his own vision and the final image. This process is fully evident in the control of shades in his black and white photographs of landscapes, a revisitation in contemporary key of a genre that has its roots in the history of photography.
He lives and works at Casarsa della Delizia in the province of Pordenone, Italy.