GUIDA DEL VIAGGIATORE DI ARTE ALL’ARTE
MUSEO DELLA MEZZADRIA BUONCONVENTO

Erminia De Luca is a young photographer of Pugliese origin who has been in Milan for the last few years. She works with themes that go from still-lives of flowers to the self-portrait, the nude, cloud landscapes, entwining their motifs and their symbolic and formal characters, in particular with the use of negatives and special treatment during the printing phase. The body and the physical realm are in an interesting balance with the lightness and quasi-abstraction that the forms end up assuming. The artist has written about herself, "I was born in a town above-below the mountain in the heart of the Gargano (an area in Puglia, ndt) in a clear day of roses. My landscape has strong colors. In the light, clear lines of separation. Contrasts in the air. The stone, with its hard edges, stops time in an instant of lightness." The same themes will come into play in the special project for Arte all'Arte, in which she has been asked to create a photographical series of images of the Sienese territory as an artistic documentation of the changes in its landscape and particularly the state of the relationship between urban life and rural activity. The images are presented and will go on to become a part of the permanent collection of the Museo della Mezzadria in Buonconvento. As the ideal extension of this project, Erminia De Luca will also produce the images for the Guida del viaggiatore di Arte all'Arte, the guide to the treasures and flavors of Tuscany that accompanies and completes the manifestation of Arte all'Arte each year, and that will be curated this year by chef Antonello Colonna.