Edgardo Bianco

“The road is the mournful and joyful tray of our life.”
The suggestions of Kerouac’s “On The Road” and the lighthearted emotional rigour of Bruno Munari, have been some of my initial references to bring to life these visual notations which I call Underfoot.
The street as a place of true life, where culture, instincts, tastes, violence,poetry coagulate and reject each other without any solution of cultural continuity.  
On the street, on the ground I find the signs of these daily torments left behind by our civilisation and more often by our uncivilisation.  
Anonymous signs, without paternity and yet extraordinarily beautiful.  Capable of speaking unknown languages, almost symbols of a parallel life, a projection of other worlds we would desire.
 A spasmodic research of the beautiful in every sign left on the street, there where humiliity and humiliation find unconditional welcome.

Edgardo Bianco, born in Turin - Italy- , where he currently lives. 

Edgardo,after classical studies and a diploma from the first Italian academy for new professions, starts his professional career in photography, freelance reporter traveling through Europe and North Africa.
He then consolidates is experience as a creative director working on many successful international advertising an design projects.
  “Underfoot” is a project at which Edgardo has been researching and working at for over twenty years,
alternating travels and experimentation.
Through photography, Edgardo captures, transforming only the colors, the signs that the randomness of nature and man's work leaves on predominantly metropolitan terrain.
Signs that are present on the ground, methodically taken up on axis
perpendicular; imprints of life that find a new consistency
through reproduction on material surfaces, subsequently treated
with glossy, matt paints and elaborate lacquering procedures.

Paratissima 2016, Fondazione Cesare Pavese 2018