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The Circus, between art and reality
The work by photographer Dino Frittoli is an innovative editorial product as a result of an artistic event, where a direct exploration of the human soul given through photographic images faces a very peculiar content of art – the Circus.
The choice wasn’t easy. The author focuses his attention on the subtle complex reality of this sector of cultural entertainment. He didn’t want a work just for the sector operators. As a matter of fact, the book stands as a cultural manifesto that allows the reader to understand this system by offering a clear and comprehensible vision of this world.
The Circus is generally considered as an entertainment case, within a circular stage area, based on a number of relevant factors.
In this circle (symbol of time recurrence and of vital cycles of human living), man has to face nature, even in a visionary and extreme picture of life. Therefore the anthropocentric scream reveals itself though body acrobatic virtuosities and the supremacy of physical forces (as the play on the gravity).
There’s more. The photographic sequence of images shows that the hard battle against nature including the control of animals, intended as bodies different from the human one, has given up a colonizing vision and allows a relationship based on empathy and trust. And then, the iconographic character of the clown comes along, as a forever linking element. A man we ask to exorcize death with his absurdity and naivety. Besides its peculiar entertainment function, the Circus states its social meaning, its being a travelling community through the world that has forever delivered a message of serenity and hope. In this trace of realistic perception of this reality, our poet of the soul has fulfilled his difficult task to raise the atavic human need for dynamic movements even outside the stage.
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Dino Frittoli was born in Putignano on 23rd January 1968. When he was just a kid, he found out that his father kept a camera in a cabinet. It was natural to feel attracted by an object so precious and so prohibited: the game of a curious boy became enchantment and fascination for a tool that can frame faces and objects through its lens. He spent his first earnings to buy his first camera and since then he has experienced that every shot of that magic box can stop a glance or a moment fading in the shade. This game became a passion and his love for portraits became his profession of the last twenty years. He has worked as a professional photographer since 1988, dealing with concerts first, and fashion later on a national and international ground. His photos are published on the main magazines of the field. His searching passion is strong, very strong, it’s the real underlying theme of every shot. This leads him to search more, to follow dreams and make them real. The Circus is a dream. It’s the vision he used to see as a kid, of an unreal tend framed by the home window. A tend hiding mysteries, ancient secrets as old as the world itself. Ancestral secrets. What happens beyond those circular curtains? The dream is to stop the running of time behind those curtains, the daily gestures so temporary, always the same and always different in every square, in every town. The training to the bravery, to the athletic movement. The sweat, the hard work, the temporality, the dust. The circensian looks, the fading truth of the light caressing them. Life is stopped by a click within the circle of a circus: now the circle is perfect.
