Giasco Bertoli
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Artist Statement
I remember one summer, when I was in Denver, two girls knocked at the door. They were sixteen, maybe seventeen years old. I had a hard time understanding the question issuing from their lips. After a few unsuccessful attempts to comprehend what they wanted to say, I looked for something to write with. The girls were surprisingly patient and determined. When I finally gave them a pencil and paper, they passed the pencil back and forth from one to the other while consulting. Then finally one of them carefully wrote a phrase. It took her a moment to write the letters. I only wished I could have responded.
Curator Statement
Giasco Bertoli’s photographs address issues of youth and a sense of loss, while aiming for international references through the use of the individual. The title, I went to see a friend of mine who turned thirty-three years old, in his room I found a pile of 33 lp’s with the word blue on each cover title, I compiled them in alphabetical order, appears in the two panel photograph as a caption. Literally, it describes the collection of photographs, where it came from, and the LP’s relation/non relation to each other. From Tricky to Coltrane, The Rolling Stones to Miles Davis, Foghat to Johnny Cash, the color blue and the particular collection of records create the subject matter.
As with other of the artist’s photographic series, through the iconography of music and the memory of the album, this piece traces an individual history and a more universal one: mass production.
