Jacopo Tomassini
Balance and Shape
I try to make out the hidden beauty in things. I look for extremities in the confusion of everything I see. I wonder about this tense balance of objects and gestures, trying to translate the elements into an essential form. I practice a precarious construction that overlaps with a linear, consequent time, a random time, a montage full of ellipses.
In the daily magma of images I produce, I try to understand whether there is a common tension, a formal balance that goes beyond the logic of the narrative.
I am fascinated by the possibility of constructing a representation, through a set of different images, that is closer to abstraction, to an emotional state.
Without treating the images as isolated elements but always as interrelated phenomena, I organize my sequence as a succession of instinctive associations that mainly relate to colour, shape, depth and plastic yield.
Jacopo Tomassini (Rome, 1979) studied History of Cinema at the ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome and since 2001 he has worked as assistant director on various film productions. In 2010 he approached the visual arts, collaborating with various artists, interested in exploring new areas of research and experimentation. In 2012 he began his own artistic research: through the use of different genres and expressive techniques – from still life to collage, from performance to installation, and from assemblage to portrait – he investigates the nature, ambiguity and contradictions of the photographic image, toying with the relationship that he has always had with the media and the visual arts. Between 2013 and 2015, he attended the Master Course at the Fondazione Fotografia Modena. He has participated in several group exhibitions (Twiner # 5 La Joie de Vivre-International BNL Tennis Championships, 2017), prizes (including the Francesco Fabbri Prize and the Combat Prize) as well as residencies (A.I.R. Bucharest and Bocs Arte Cosenza). In 2018 he staged his first personal exhibition, ‘Braindraining’, at the Ex Elettrofonica in Rome. In the same year he was selected to participate in the Mentoring Program Parallel Photo Platform funded by the European Community, conceived by Procur.arte, and – among various Institutions – also supported by the FONDAZIONE MODENA ARTI VISIVE.