Carlo De Angelis

Carlo De Angelis began as a professional photographer.  But it was not long before his imagination forced him beyond the boundaries inherent of the camera by itself—or as he puts it, "to go beyond the modes of expression traditionally typical of photography."  But instead of letting technology move him to excess, De Angelis adheres to a self-imposed aesthetic mission statement:  "to highlight simple, small, introspective moments that arise from the changing complexities that surround me."  The result is a body of work that tends to focus in one way or another on the superimposition of human forms onto natural and architectural backgrounds.  Whether starkly black and white or deeply drenched in a wave of color, De Angelis pays great attention to the contrast of shade against shade or angle and contour, communicating the importance of one moment's dissolution into the next, how one movement inevitably becomes another.

Over the last few years Carlo De Angelis has been featured in an increasing number of group and solo exhibitions in his native Italy, where he continues to live and work.