The ground is covered in snow, the horizon a dark line of mountains; low milky clouds hide the sky. In the foreground, a shapeless form, a strange sagging mass of bright colors—red, blue and yellow—stirs as it fills with air. In less than a minute a popular fairground attraction appears: an inflatable, rotund form, awkward and genial, shaped like a double slide or a springboard, the kind often seen in children´s play areas, at fairs and village gatherings.

Along with other inflatables in the same vein—a chubby castle complete with dragon, a football pitch—the slide is part of the bizarre landscape conjured up in Stefano Cerio´s Aquila, a series of photographs taken in Abruzzo at different times of year and in highly impactful settings not far from L´ Aquila, on the plains of Campo Felice, Campo Imperatore and Pescasseroli.


Format Inbunden Omfång 96 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Hatje Cantz Utgivningsdatum 2022-09-29 ISBN 9783775753203