TONtonio Biasiucci is An artist who uses photography. One could say: “He is a photographer”, but it would not be exhaustive because for him The camera is the tool of unveiling, of magic. Each body of work was born from an idea, from a feeling, from an intuition to become a visionary story.
Born in Dragoni (Caserta) in 1961, he lived in Naples since the early 80s. Unique artist in the Italian panorama, an original always and in any case, cultured and deep without being wise or cryptic, Antonio Biasiucci composes anthropological mosaics, showing us the cards of our history.
Antonio Biasiucci, digging in our creeds
With the images dig, digs inside our creedscreates sequences that become polyptyles in which it flows the rites, reveals and transforms what appears obvious by giving it new value and meaning. It happened for Doughthe work on bread, Ghenos, on the cuts of the trunksMany, skulls, milk body and wooden body In each of these works, in reality in all its works, Through the creative process, the artist gives life to the metamorphosis of the matter that enjoys allegory or metaphor, fairy tale or story.
Travel over time
Biasiucci’s work It is a slow investigation, a journey through time: Past, present and future alternate, sometimes they chase each other, more often coexist within the same narrative.
It also happens in the new work, Insula, On display at the Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri until 30 October next. The result of a residence of the artist of a few months, the island of Capri, this enchanted, iconic and celebrated place, for Biasiucci becomes the occasion for a meticulous and fragmentary research. Explore the invisible, he does not let himself be seduced by beauty, rather recreates it by building a new representation.
THE’insula of Biasiucci is a new work in front of which we must surrender, Let us permeate from its suggestive power, defeat the resistances, avoid hasty interpretative temptations, Let the image enter us, occupy the observation space to head without hesitation in that of fantasy.
Portrait of Antonio Biasiucci in the Certosa di San Domenico. (Valeria Laureano)
Fragments that become dreams
It is not at all simple. It requires trust, loss of control and renunciation of decoding. But in general, in front of the long and rich visual research by Antonio Biasucci, it happens.
To the writer, it always happens in the face of the evolutions, flagings and intuitions of this brilliant artist.
Biasiucci takes fragments of reality and converts them into dreams. Distilla to one by one the elements of the nature of which the spirit warns. Here then Insula It becomes a nursery rhyme in which the marine star slowly slips on the bottom of the sea and the foam of the wave is a slap in the night. Is the cave mysterious in which the photography insinuates himself to grasp the light that appears from a gash, will it be here that Polyphemus detached a piece of rock with his hands to throw him against Ulysses?
Antonio Biasiucci between reality and fantasy
The artist does not choose between reality and fantasy, he blends them and confuses them to invite us to the game of imagination and look beyond the surface of the photography, beyond the limits of the rational interpretation. Observing this work – also applies to the previous ones – the epiphany of amazement is renewed.
Capri is no longer Capri, but a place of the mind. On the island, nocturnal birds chase marble swimmers with their flight in the black sea of the night; Anthropomorphic forms of stone and vegetation inhabit hills and ravines. Insula of beasts and busts where time is a past that describes the future. Humans are absent, nature is the only proof of existence, like a postpocalctic novel, is the end and the beginning. What lives in the work is creation, divine and soil, a photographic mosaic in which each card is a clue that belongs to the place.
The setting up of the Insula exhibition inside the Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri
From Capri to Capri
Insula It is reborn from the fragments as a testimony of a passage of the artist who has scaled the dark forest to bring to light alive souls of flora and fauna and eternal souls of marble and stone custodians of memory. Biasiucci lays every image inside those who observe, distilling them one by one like small gems or miracles. Insula It is a dreamlike, dark but not tragic fairy tale, in which forms of life float innocent, leaving the viewer surprised and astonished in the face of the magic that is accomplished. The complete work, more than 50 images, is now set up in the wonderful setting of the Certosa di San Giacomo. From Capri to Capri, to return the sense of experience lived and the time dedicated to the narrative of A place by contemplating all the power of the symbolic and the iconography of the beauty contained therein.
Insula
Of Antonio Biasiucci edited by Gianluca Riccio
Capri, Certosa di San Giacomo
Until 30 October 2025