TITLE: Extravagant portraits

This photographic language of mine wants to interpret the portrait in an ironic, bizarre and unconventional way.
Rather than presenting an obvious reality, I try to create the illusion to evoke dreams of my imagination, giving free rein to my imagination, reaching original results: for this purpose I create clothing, accessories and clothing complements (hats, glasses, jewelry, etc.) for my models to wear.

AUTHOR: Alberto Quoco (Italy)

Alberto Quoco, born in Udine (Italy), has been cultivating artistic photography alongside his profession for several years. His vocation first pushed him to grasp the lessons of the painters of the second half of the nineteenth century to lead him, later, to abstract photography. From there he started to follow his own path, reworking in an original way suggestions coming from different artistic currents and styles.

Here's how he illustrates his artistic vision and the technique he uses to express it:

It is difficult for me to classify my photographic works, especially if they are still in progress, because when I start a new artistic path, I don't know how it will evolve and where it will end. However, the instinct that accompanies me in my choices has always given me the opportunity to create long-term projects.

However, there is no doubt that my shots do not refer to the recognizable module: the common thread of all my production is the desire to reveal the less predictable but more intriguing side of reality, the 'distorted' side, the one that is not given to everyone. knowing how to grasp.

The range of my subjects is vast.

Some of my works are inspired by architectural forms and basic living elements. Spaces and landscapes, whether urban or natural, are investigated and developed in unusual ways, which may even appear bizarre.

Others draw inspiration from industrial products and metallurgical artifacts: I particularly like portraying steel structures, one of the hardest materials, which I transform into unique harmonic forms.

A theme that also recurs in my production is the "infrared" landscape whose concept, investigated in its dynamics, I explore in a nostalgic way based on the meaning it has for me. Again, rather than presenting an obvious reality, I try to create the illusion to evoke dreams of my imagination.

A very important space occupies the representation of the human body, which offers me the opportunity to give free rein to my imagination, often ironic, reaching original results: for this purpose I create clothes, accessories and clothing complements (hats, glasses, jewelry, etc.) for my models to wear.

In the search for new effects that reveal 'my reality' and for a symbolic language that satisfactorily expresses the concept that I want to express, I create - reworking and revisiting the result obtained several times - of the same subject several specimens, which are only apparently identical .

Through abstraction I try to recreate intense dream moments by means of inclusions and omissions, challenging the viewer to grasp the reality that hides behind the appearance, to understand the link between the data of the experience and the product of my imagination.