Like the photo of the illegal immigrants on the ground the one with the UCK kid in the foreground the other one with the creeping soldier in high school and a few more. This latest album by Nikos Oikonomopoulos which gathers his work over many years helps us to establish his photographic obsessions the way in which his gaze is attracted by the tender and charming details of everyday life his readiness for the unexpected his attention of the curated scenery of the spaces and all this without the binding presence of a general thematic title or the also restrictive submission to the needs of a journalistic article.
This book is nothing more than the necessary of an important Greek photographer. The myth surrounding an artist's name e-commerce photo editing often becomes an obstacle to understanding his work. Even more so when as in the case of Federico Fellini the legend contributed so that even his last name turned into a surname. An adjective of course that is very natural to refer to the most obvious elements of his style. But since the understanding of an artistic work is not an end in itself but a necessary stage for its deeper enjoyment it is not in vain to try to set aside the myth in order to be led to the essence. There are many who try to approach an artist by studying his life.
However in this way they run the great risk of either being disappointed or going astray since art is not necessarily a reflection of the quality and type of life of its creator. The difficulty in the case of Federico Fellini lies in the fact that Fellini is both obvious and simple on the first level but complex complex and multiprismatic on the second. It is not enough to study his life or any formalistic analyzes to understand his work just as it is not wise to attempt to disentangle his simplicity and complexity which work only in absolute harmony and incessant alternation. Perhaps one way is to let yourself be charmed by its contrasts. Playing a bit with Fellini's opposites it is not wrong to attempt to rethink everything that has been said about Fellini and to weigh them against their opposites in an attempt at reversals and confirmations.
发表于 2022-10-17 19:11:45
