In this exhibition, Marco Ronconi takes up the theme of chiaroscuro, the timeless dialogue between light and darkness, and reinterprets it from a contemporary and philosophical perspective. For the artist, emptiness is not absence but pure potential, a space in which form, light, and meaning can emerge. Within this philosophy, darkness is just as essential as light; in other words, negative space is given the same weight as the visible subject. The resulting images are meditations on contrast and complementarity: light and shadow, fullness and emptiness, presence and imagination. Through extreme simplification and a self-taught approach, the artist transforms photography into a contemplative act, an aesthetic of restraint and suggestion in which the unseen is as powerful as the visible.

For Ronconi, photography is a process shaped more by omission than by addition, in which meaning arises through restraint. His harmonious photographic compositions embrace the subtle expressive power of emptiness and invite the viewer into a dialogue with silence and space. He understands photography as an aesthetic act of expression that transcends its documentary limits to become a medium of visual meditation and introspection.

About the Artist

Marco Ronconi was born in 1984 in Rovigo, a small town in northern Italy. The artist still lives and works today in the place where he grew up. The local environment, characterized by much everyday routine and little cultural life, has had a lasting influence on his creative path, as the quiet monotony of small-town life awakened in him at an early age a sense of curiosity and restlessness. More than that, it gave rise to a desire to look beyond the obvious, to seek new experiences and to empathize with them. Ultimately, his need for discovery found its expression in the medium of photography.