Gea Casolaro

Gea Casolaro offers, new interpretations of reality and the existing image in works that blend together art and current events, with a non-conformist and visionary style. For the series Visioni dell’EUR (Visions of EUR), the artist works with public libraries in Rome collecting private amateur photographs and at the same time views all the numerous films shot in the then futuristic district, often used by the cinema in those years. In Riccardo e i Mostri (Riccardo and the Monsters), the photo of a child sitting at the edge of a fountain selected from an album of a family living in EUR is inserted into a frame of the film I Mostri (Monsters) where the same fountain is filmed.

Gea Casolaro offers new interpretations of reality and the existing image in works that blend together art and current events, with a non-conformist and visionary style. In Permanente Presenza, Casolaro creates a superimposition between a black and white image from the historical archives of the Guardia di Finanza (the Italian Finance Police), who commissioned the project, and a color image made today in the exact place where the first one was taken, precisely identified thanks to the participation of the client that commissioned the work. It is the visionary and nonconformist way typical of the author to give new interpretations of reality and of the existing image.