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Selected Critical Texts

Jean-Claude Lemagny — Matière et Lumière, 2002


A reading of the work as an autonomous photographic practice, moving beyond any descriptive function.

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Alberto Giovanni Biuso — La terra metafisica, 221

 

In La Terra Metafisica, Attilio Scimone transforms landscape, body, and memory into a material and luminous meditation on time, where nature and history converge in a single, restless vision.

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Andrea Guastella — Sites of Memory, 2024

 

Attilio Scimone’s photographs of the Sicilian sulphur mines explore the intersection of history and memory, presenting the landscape as a spatial archive of disappearance and time.

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Dario Orphée La Mendola — Esatto e d'argento , 2016

 

Art, like the sea, resists coherence and certainty, offering instead a space where perception, memory, and transformation remain unresolved yet profoundly necessary.

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Gigliola Foschi — In the name of remembrance, 2024

 

Attilio Scimone’s work on the Sicilian sulphur mines weaves landscape, memory, and industrial history into a visual archive that preserves a disappearing world while opening it toward the future.

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Antonio Vitale — Verso, 2015

 

In the “Verso” cycle, Attilio Scimone stages figures and objects within absolute darkness, where light alludes rather than reveals, transforming image, sign, and gesture into a lyrical form of visual writing.

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Diego Mormorio — The landscape beauty as an economic resource, 2003

 

Attilio Scimone’s landscapes, shaped by Rosario Assunto’s aesthetics, reveal landscape as a cultural identity and economic resource, where nature and history converge into a form of visual criticism and preservation.

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