The Demo Site

The kitsch in everyway. This is the underlying theme of Stefano Cerio's exhibition, divided into three series: Sintetico Urbano, Souvenir and apparizioni. The church with the blue starred mantle, the suburban outlet, the pet cemetary with marble plate and floral decorations. the artist visits various town is Southern Italy, where the bonbonnière houses alternates with chalets, neoclassic columns and gotic spires. Here nothing is relted with the traditions of the places or with the people who inhabit it. Mystic fetish of the modern era of mass tourism, the souvenir becomes the main protagonist of the photos of the second series. In Apparizioni, the lens close up on religion and madonnas ans saints thriumphantly emerge on rich landscapes like mystic appearances.