The panorama that emerges from the brief dialogue Alberto Airola has established between his own vision and the world is imbued with a unique exotic image: the author himself is surprised to discover the outcome of his casual visual elaboration; he marvels at it and is delighted. There is an element of catharsis and spiritual renewal in this almost inadvertent abandonment to beneficial colours and photographic effects, captured in a rhabdomantic manner by a mobile phone: there is psychic abandonment, a detachment from the constraints of the intellectual order, the certain loss of the ego which, defined as ‘dépense’ by Georges Bataille, is identified with the authentic rediscovery of oneself in a broad and total recognition of the principle of pleasure […].
from the critical text by Duccio Trombadori

ALBERTO AIROLA, torinese, classe 1970, è laureato in Lettere Moderne con indirizzo artistico. Lavora come telecineoperatore freelance dal 1996 al 2013, anno in cui viene eletto Senatore della Repubblica e riconfermato alle elezioni politiche del 2018. Non abbandona la passione per le immagini. “Uscita di sicurezza” è la sua prima mostra personale.

ALBERTO AIROLA, born in Turin in 1970, has a degree in Modern Literature with a focus on art. He worked as a freelance cameraman from 1996 to 2013, the year he was elected as Senator of the Republic; he was reconfirmed in this role at the 2018 general election. His passion for images has never waned. ‘Emergency Exit’ is his first solo exhibition.

L'articolo Uscita di sicurezza / Emergency exit proviene da Gangemi.