"EQUAL ONLY IN THE BEGINNING
YOU FEIGN TO BE FORM AND STEAL FORMS
BREAKING POINT
BLINDING LIGHT THAT PREVENTS SIGHT
EVERYTHING FADES OUT
THEN THE LIGHT COMES BACK"
Pallade Atena,
by A.C. Bianchi
"Divine Cracks" represents the idealization of the feminine essence as the source of
creative rebirth, an ode to woman as
her whole: life generator/object of male desire/regent of the universal order. The strong
contrast of the print together with
the detail of the framing generate an abstraction of the human body, almost as if it were
the marble statue of a classical
divinity. The anatomic detail is subtly revealed within the black of the line confining
the erotic tension to an almost
subconscious level. The result forms a crack in the white idyll of the paper that shatters
all certainties of the male universe,
a slight discomfort, a faint embarassment... the photographic medium reminds us that
everything is real, attainable,
touchable, earthly yet uncanny. The single images don’t bear names, only numbers, making
all the subjects equivalent, at
the same time different from one another, unique.
Born and raised in Switzerland in the 70’s.
Death metal drummer in the 80’s.
Works in the italian movie industry and studies photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City in the 90’s.
Movie stills, art, portrait, food and architecture photographer and videocameraman since the 00’s.
Selected solo and group shows since 1997:
2014 - group, "WeArt Festival", Barcelona, Spain
2015 - group, "Art For Porn", Le Dictateur gallery, Milan, Italy
2016 - group, "Berlin Foto Biennial", Germany
2016 - solo, Galleria Sacripante, Rome, Italy
2016 - solo, Galleria Pian De' Giullari, Rome, Italy
2017 - group, "Vincent Littlehat: Perspectives", Galerie Ingo Seufert, Munich, Germany
His limited edition art book: “Aliocha Merker Divine Cracks” was self published in April of 2016 and co-funded through Fotofund. It was on show at the 2017 Month of Photography Los Angeles.
Director of photography for the documentary: “HN - Hermann Nitsch” (Best Documentary Audience Award, Beverly Hills Film Festival 2011) and the documentary: "The Making Of A Dream" (2017), both by swiss director Daniela Ambrosoli.
Set photographer for the feature films: “The Black Brothers” (2012) and: “Schellen Ursli” (2014) by swiss Academy Award winning director Xavier Koller.
Awards 2014, 1ST PLACE, FINE ART NUDES, MIFA, MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FOTO AWARDS
