Antonio di Cecco, Effimero, 2022

Effìmero (or efìmero) adj. [from late Latin ephemĕrus, gr. ἐφήμερος, comp. of ἐπί “above” and ἡμέρα “day”]. – 1. a. Which lasts only one day […]

Ephemeral is a poetic homage, in images, to the mountains. “Antonio Di Cecco’s landscapes stand on very thin, evanescent entities. They force us to poke around what appears indistinct, mobile, without matter. A constant work of subtraction of weight, now to the already rarefied air, now to human figures, now to the gaze. The search for a “pensive lightness.” The result is a world almost without gravity.”

— Alberto Bazzucchi