Sicily is body and shadow,
an ancient gesture, a renewed gaze.
It is hidden intimacy,
a crowd breathing as one.
An island alive with contrasts,
between profound silences
and burning colors.
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an ancient gesture, a renewed gaze.
It is hidden intimacy,
a crowd breathing as one.
An island alive with contrasts,
between profound silences
and burning colors.
Ca vit, ça vibre, ça bouge. C'est punk, destroy, et au loin on entend presque Iggy Pop qui braille The Passenger.
A lire Sicily #3 on a l'impression que le photographe aurait croisé Nobuyoshi Araki et Martin Parr pour emprunter chez l'un et l'autre le meilleur.
Parce qu'il y a dans les images de Massimo une esthétique trash, comme un Do It Yourself vital et ironique.
On peut se demander si l'image ne doit pas, parfois, se contenter d'être, tout simplement, dans sa plus parfaite simplicité, sans détours alambiqués ou faux-semblants ?
Et c'est ce à quoi nous invite ce livre.
En effet, comme il a été dit, Massimo a eu ce besoin irrépressible de sortir de la photographie métronomique et policée des studios pour se confronter, se plonger dans les rues et les ruelles de la Sicile. de sa Sicile.
Frèdèric Martin
There’s an intimacy here, but also a certain estrangement: faces half-lit, gestures caught in awkward half-beats, moments that resist narrative closure. Like the work of Moriyama or Petersen he admires, Gurciullo’s images compel not by spectacle, but by their haunted, searching quality. In his Sicily, we don’t find neat stories or postcard vistas; we encounter instead something far more honest — a living, breathing theatre, as restless and fragile as the human heart itself.
(M-Artlens mag, July 2025 )
Per gli altri ecco due siti dove potete completare la vostra collezione:
Leafing through a photography book is a full sensory experience: the images capture the gaze, while the scent of printed paper envelops and accompanies the slow, intimate pleasure of discovery, page after page.
A collection of images of the most unusual Sicily. Beyond the tourist clichès and mafia imagery. A Sicily that pulses, that vibrates with life.
A surprising living theater.
Highest quality printing - glossy paper – large format cm 24x30 –
92 pages – Limited Edition 1/300 – numbered and signed.
Leafing through a photography book is a full sensory experience: the images capture the gaze, while the scent of printed paper envelops and accompanies the slow, intimate pleasure of discovery, page after page.
A collection of images of the most unusual Sicily. Beyond the tourist clichès and mafia imagery. A Sicily that pulses, that vibrates with life.
A surprising living theater.
Highest quality printing - glossy paper – large format cm 24x30 –
92 pages – Limited Edition 1/300 – numbered and signed.
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He acknowledges how all his earlier work fed into this. Even pieces he once questioned have taken on new meaning over time. “Everything we’ve done before has helped shape who we are today. Sometimes we do work we’re not entirely satisfied with, but then, when we look back on it many years later, we can appreciate something in it.”
(M-Artlens mag July 2025)
Leafing through a photography book is a full sensory experience: the images capture the gaze, while the scent of printed paper envelops and accompanies the slow, intimate pleasure of discovery, page after page.
A collection of images of the most unusual Sicily. Beyond the tourist clichès and mafia imagery. A Sicily that pulses, that vibrates with life.
A surprising living theater.
Highest quality printing - glossy paper – large format cm 24x30 –
92 pages – Limited Edition 1/300 – numbered and signed.
A collection of images of the most unusual Sicily. Beyond the tourist clichès and mafia imagery. A Sicily that pulses, that vibrates with life.
A surprising living theater.
Highest quality printing - glossy paper – large format cm 24x30 –
92 pages – Limited Edition 1/300 – numbered and signed.
"Sicily" suit cette méthode à la lettre.
A collection of images of the most unusual Sicily. Beyond the tourist clichès and mafia imagery. A Sicily that pulses, that vibrates with life.
A surprising living theater.
Highest quality printing - glossy paper – large format cm 24x30 –
92 pages – Limited Edition 1/300 – numbered and signed.
A collection of images of the most unusual Sicily. Beyond the tourist clichès and mafia imagery. A Sicily that pulses, that vibrates with life.
A surprising living theater.
Highest quality printing - glossy paper – large format cm 24x30 –
92 pages – Limited Edition 1/300 – numbered and signed.
His years in Paris laid the foundations for a career steeped in the tactile craft of photography. Working in the studio, shooting on film and spending long hours in the darkroom became his world. Over more than three decades, nudes and portraits dominated his practice, shaping a body of work that was both disciplined and deeply personal...
(M-Artlens magazine, July 2025)