“A landscape is in reality a vision in which atmospheres and states of mind melt together in something unique.”
SmithDavidson Gallery is the official gallery for Francesco Bosso with access to the full collection.
Francesco Bosso is one of the leading Italian black-and-white photographers of landscape and the wildness of nature. His meticulous artistic investigation is aimed at isolating natural forms and elements in untouched places, where silence reigns supreme—a mix of “atmospheres” and deep thinking, concepts that he consistently attempts to express in a whisper, rather than a roar, in an attempt to put the observer perfectly at ease.
His visual conceptualization, his extraordinary mastery of large-format photos, and his virtuosity in the darkroom allow him to produce photographic works characterized by intensely nuanced gradations of black and white and exceptional depth of tonal contrasts. Bosso's works reveal a kind of theoretical and creative fundamentalism, in constant tension with analytical depth, the act of creation, and a reductionist spirit. These undergo a process of obsessive subtraction, reducing scenes to their bare minimum, since the superfluous becomes chaos and confusion. The photos subvert our contemporary context, which goes in an entirely different direction.