Attilio Solzi - Home Video Diary (signed) & Taedium (limited to 200 copies) - 2015-2017

Home Video Diary (2017)
The straightforward title of Attilio Solzi’s new book might not do justice to its complexity. The reader only needs to glimpse a few pages of his work before they are flooded with questions. What is happening? What leads these people to such surreal moments? Who are they? Where do these daily life spectacle take place? Attilio’s way of seeing it is: “Ultimately, life is a comedy played between the drama and the grotesque. Depending on where you were born, one or the other character prevails. Around me, 90% is grotesque. I start from there, but then each "actor" adds their own ideas.” Fascinated by vernacular photography and family home videos made during holidays and parties, Solzi’s idea was to make low-quality videos that mix the contemporary view of directors such as Ulrich Seidl and the poetics of certain avant-garde photography of the 1970s. signed

Taedium (2015)
the first book by Italian photographer Attilio Solzi. The volume is the result of a research that the artist started three years ago about places and people who lives in the neighbourhoods around his studio that is also his house. Solzi works with set photography and handmade collages in an absolutely unconventional way, his grotesque and vernacular language shows us a dead-end view of the small-town Italian north areas. The volume includes also more then one hundred aphorisms written by the artist.