Massimo Attardi Biography
Massimo Attardi (1961 - ) was born in Treviso in 1961. Attardi is a Roman photographer who works with the ancient rubber bichromate printing technique, transferring images onto wooden supports. His particular style makes him the sole creator of this exemplary execution. He began working as a photographer and then a fashion photographer while attending political science school. In 1985 he came into contact with the Roman artistic environment. In the meantime, he began his personal research on the human figure and on ancient printing techniques, in particular on "bichromated rubber", using it on different supports, such as wood, metal, glass, plexiglass, stone. After being contacted shortly afterwards by the Spazioltre gallery for his first exhibition, he subsequently exhibited at the Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporanea in Rome. Numerous personal and collective exhibitions follow. He lives and works between Rome and Berlin. Based on this method, Attardi places nudes, faces and hands framed against neutral backgrounds in his studio or in urban contexts; his subjects are modern women attracted to the world of painting but who are also absorbed by it. They impose themselves on the viewer in carnal or sensual, ethereal or fugitive ways. The image that conveys a feeling of icy calm corresponds to the emotion aroused by a body. The uniqueness of his works lies in the creative process that produces a correlation between the meaning of the reproduced image and the object that is shown to the viewer. To convey the emotions of a body it is necessary to use a manipulable technique such as wood, that is, a support that has the same organic nature as the subject it depicts.
