When you think about Antonio Biasiucci, the photographs of his breads immediately emerge. The bread is the ideal subject for him, in order to speak about life, creation, birth, and about his mother – a farmers’; daughter – who always made home bread. His works transcribe in a poetic tone the rural world of his childhood, which he spent in Dragoni – a place in the Campania’s backcountry – but they take inspiration by the metropolitan effervescence that he experienced when he was a little more than an adolescent. Naples in his imaginary is “a big pot of boiling ragout“.
He tells us about the pork’s sacrifice from the animal perspective, in the evanescent vapours of the hot water that helps to eradicate the bristles, and about the cows, photographed in his aunt’s stall, that have been the pretest to exercise himself in the searching of the “essential”, following the teachings of the playwright, actor and theatre director Antonio Neiwiller. While searching for the nature of things, Antonio Biasiucci followed these animals, which he considered more mythical than sacred, up to India. He is not vegetarian by choice, he likes identify himself as a “photographer of land”. He does not like to elaborate artificial things, neither in the darkroom nor in the kitchen. His petite madeleine are the homemade cavati and the fried pizzas with sugar.
Interview and document by: Helga SanitàVideo and editing by: Davide Mancini
Subtitles by: Mariangela Bianco
Translation by: Marzia Mauriello
MedEatResarch – Center of Social Research on the Mediterranean Diet of the University of Naples Suor Orsola Benincasa, head by Marino Niola and Elisabetta Moro
Realized: 20-3-2013
