One of the great seductive forces of photography lies in the possibility of continually relating it to life. In the solo exhibition “Fantastic Reflections,” dedicated to the photographs of Gino Di Meglio, the 47 shots chosen by the artist are those that best represent his creative and artistic journeyin this relationship with the existing. And so there are portraits to Italian singer-songwriters who have marked his generation: Battisti, Gaber, Dalla, Paoli, De Gregori, De Andrè, Conte, Ron, Guccini; and then writers such as Bukowski, Barrios, Erri De Luca, whose quotations become shots that in the synthesis of a single moment concentrate and tell the observer many possible stories.

“Sometimes words are not enough.
Then colors are needed. And the shapes. And the notes.
And emotions.”

Alessandro Baricco

Biography

Gino di Meglio is a lawyer who has been interested in photography since 1973. In addition to the traditional photographic technique, with negative and print on silver paper, the Ischian artist also applies alternative printing procedures: gum bichromate, cyanotype, chemigrams, and lumen print. He also makes lith prints, which are an alternative evolution of the traditional black-and-white printing method on silver gelatin paper. A member of the Rodolfo Namias Group since 2014, he develops and prints the negatives of his shots in his own laboratory.