ALBERTO RIZZO

The right word to describe Alberto Rizzo's work is dynamic.

The women in his pictures 'explode' out of the photograph thanks to the almost three-dimensional effect he manages to give his pictures.

Other images amaze with their composition, abstract forms of light and colour of enthralling fascination. Silhouettes that look as if drawn by a skilful hand but are instead the product of masterful use of light, which Rizzo dominates in an unusual way for a fashion photographer, designing enigmatic forms.

Bizarre compositions with perfect equilibrium respond to a way of 'inventing' fashion that goes beyond the demands of figuration.

Rizzo can transform any object at all (from a precious watch to a bar of soap or a perfume bottle) into a fantastic vision, doing away with cognition of the object itself to lose itself in an imaginative vision of great power.

Skilled in classic black and white photography, in colour Alberto Rizzo releases a creativity that rebels against the conventional formulas.

His work reconciles the opposites of photography so that we can no longer identify the boundaries between fashion photography and art photography.

His personal work, 'Shadows', is also emblematic of the rare virtue of grasping the

essential alone. A look out the window of his New York loft takes the form of quick snapshots of passers-by and the urban environment, stimuli for releasing the rigour of form and a new tool for the observer to use in getting to know reality.

The right word to describe Alberto Rizzo's work is dynamic.

-CARLA SOZZANI , GALLERIA CARLA SOZZANI