Granai della Memoria

When you think about Antonio Biasiucci, the photographs of his breads immediately emerge. The bread is the ideal

subject for him, in order to speak about life, creation, birth, and about his mother – a farmers' daughter – who always

made home bread. His works transcribe in a poetic tone the rural world of his childhood, which he spent in Dragoni - a

place in the Campania's backcountry - but they take inspiration by the metropolitan effervescence that he experienced

when he was a little more than an adolescent. Naples in his imaginary is “a big pot of boiling ragout“. He tells us about

the pork's sacrifice from the animal perspective, in the evanescent vapours of the hot water that helps to eradicate

the bristles, and about the cows, photographed in his aunt's stall, that have been the pretest to exercise himself in the

searching of the “essential”, following the teachings of the playwright, actor and theatre director Antonio Neiwiller. While

searching for the nature of things, Antonio Biasiucci followed these animals, which he considered more mythical than

sacred, up to India. He is not vegetarian by choice, he likes identify himself as a “photographer of land”. He does not like

to elaborate artificial things, neither in the darkroom nor in the kitchen. His petite madeleine are the homemade cavati

and the fried pizzas with sugar.