The exhibition THE POETICS OF LIGHT presents two series of works that Alberto Flammer created in the past few years.

In order to pay tribute to the passing of a master of Ticino photography, and not only, in agreement with those who are now in charge of Alberto Flammer's archive, CONSARC/GALLERIA pays tribute to a great of Swiss photography.

Our acquaintance with Alberto Flammer began in the first half of the 1980s, when at the first FotografiaOltre gallery, also in Chiasso, we presented the series of works that Flammer himself had called "Alchemy," because bodies, wood and stones blend and mingle there.

Since then we have met often and each time, after long discussions, I was forced to agree with Alberto. HE WAS A MAESTRO.

The last meeting was in July 2022, in Locarno.
After a few days, he called us on the phone and proposed that we exhibit his latest work in the Gallery, which-he says-is ready.
Unfortunately, we were unable to schedule the exhibition before his death, which, as you know, occurred on November 10 last year.

After some time, we contacted Mattia Dellagana and Nicoletta Ferrazzini, who are now in charge of the Alberto Flammer Archive Association, because we wanted to pay tribute to Alberto.

We wanted to do so with that very exhibition that seemed ready, with the framed works, which only lacked to be hung on the walls of theari made years earlier.

The first group is composed of images from the series entitled "From the Book of the Dead of the Ancient Egyptians," in which details of the monuments that Flammer had photographed on his 1987-88 trip are depicted.

As Antonio Mariotti writes Flammer "aims to explore a world distant in both space and time." And again, "Irremediably, however, what directs Alberto Flammer's research is his desire to "dominate" light at all costs, using it in the best way possible to achieve his most intimate intent: that of surprising those who observe his works with a new point of view each time, a new contrast between light and shadow, between black and white."

Words that also apply to the second group of images, which are images from the series "Radiographs and Resonances": still lifes depicting vases and flowers made from medical plates, to which is added a special Self-Portrait that I invite you to come and see in the gallery.

On the occasion of this exhibition, a folder containing 7 prints will be presented in a limited edition of 7 copies + 3 copies out of edition.

The idea for the folder came after the discovery in the archives of a series of analog silver-salt prints that Alberto Flammer had made for the 1988 exhibition that the Swiss Foundation of Photography (then in the Kunsthaus Zurich) had mounted including images of Egypt.

The folder will thus contain a "vintage" silver-salt print made by Flammer himself, and contemporary prints produced for the occasion in inkjet by Stefano Spinelli of the two series presented in the gallery.

Completing the folder is an introductory text by Antonio Mariotti, who knew Flammer during the years of collaboration he had for the Roberto Donetta Archive.