Mereu Angelo
Ancient women's faces which appear and ammediately disappear
in the light and shade effects of a church; Profiles sculptured in time
and history; strong contrast lanscapes, in the Ansel Adams way; a horse
riding with a white farm-house in the background of his native Dorgali,
where he was born in 1946. In brief, this is Angelo Mereu's Sardinia, he
who is jeweller in Milan, photographer since 1979 and who is most of all
narrator of images of his native land. Sardinia of memories, not of
nostalgia told through thousand of frames, which is now becoming a
book My Sardinia (La mia Sardegna) including texts by Raffaele Piroddi
Angelo Mereu's sober and meditated narrative cadences him to
reveal «world's nature», inside links that regulate relationships
between things, between «substance and appearance», as
lamented Giuseppe Turroni wrote. Light, stones, winds, clouds, faces are
imbued with enigmatic intensity.Mereu's formal refined perfection, the
extreme synthesis of shades and volume, the strong cut of the shot allow
to reach Sardinia's deep secret soul, without any granting to picturesque
or to Folklore.
Antonio Ria
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