The Search for Perfect Imperfection by Paola Valori (ARTIST AND CURATOR)

 

“I love the rule that corrects emotion and the emotion that corrects the rule.” George Braque

 

Cionfrini’s work is difficult to pigeonhole into a particular movement or current; it is the expression of a highly personal style of photography.

 

The use of original materials and techniques is, in fact, a defining characteristic of the photographer. With his shots, we often find ourselves straddling reality and imagination.

 

His photographs are like a daydream, fascinating little stories where the boundaries between magic and the everyday dissolve.

 

This book, which I am pleased to present, brings this imaginative spirit to life, because it encompasses this entire universe imbued with magic and personalism, of which Ugo Maria Cionfrini is the custodian.

 

With a particular flair for the bizarre and a purist approach to photography, Cionfrini often positions himself on the edge of paradox.

 

Highly poetic and evocative, his visual language transcends the boundaries of the known and the prepackaged, positioning itself in an intermediate zone where the familiar forms of nature, figures, or a sunset transform into entirely different guises.

 

His photography shifts clouds, melts water, destabilizes and displaces the perception of reality. Its soul lies in movement, the unusual, and intuition.

 

Unexpected nighttime silhouettes, even the lights of a city, outline shapes clearly and distinctly, while at other times they blur into deliberately imperfect forms.

 

Cionfrini’s search for the “perfect imperfection” sweeps through the image with such speed that it even captures other visions, like a visual narrative from which he can draw with complete freedom.

 

References to other visual arts are not lacking; it’s no coincidence that he follows the models of ancient engraving, the most expressive and impactful black-and-white, or through a highly pictorial construction with the sfumato and abstract techniques.

 

However, the image is often clear and precise, detailing angles or more vivid and tactile colors, not of landscapes but of cities: Rome, Burano, Venice, always seen with the intention of capturing unusual angles that would otherwise go unnoticed, and which can only be seen if distracted and with one’s nose in the air.

 

Since until May 2025 he will not be able to earn more than 5,000 gross per year, it will mean that he will still hold an exhibition and perhaps present his book published by a large publishing house and not sell anything until 2025!

 

Good evening, he always talks about it to almost everyone to whom he tells this anecdote of how he came to show his photographs to the general public.

After graduating from the Art School (he was certainly bewildered and unmotivated by the premature death of his great father when he was sixteen) he did not think about enrolling in the Academy (he would have liked to attend Architecture, as per the projects between himself and his father).

In 2004 he met the architect * Beatrice PALMA * and after a few months she told him: “LET’S SEE IF YOU HAVE THE COURAGE TO DISCUSS YOURSELF”.

He has never lacked courage and he replied: “At the most they will throw me two red tomatoes”.

They organized his first solo exhibition (he had some success – VIRTUAL FOOD) in his architecture studio and still today

*** WANTS TO THANK YOU ENDLESSLY FOR GIVING HIM THIS OPPORTUNITY ***.

It motivated him to continue with his great passion even while working in the bank.

If it had started in the 1970s, perhaps now, they would know it beyond the Italian borders.

 

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(inserisco l’ultima parte della sua lettera che parla di me … sicuramente una Donna molto sensibile).

La ringrazio per l’attenzione regalatami nella lettura di questa lunga lettera. Rivolgendomi ad un artista, mi tranquillizzava il fatto di sapere di esporre tratti di vita personale ad un essere umano. Credo fortemente nei rapporti tra persone e assolutamente zero in quelli sterili tra persone e cose, fine a se stessi. Il possedere per possedere non mi appartiene : amare un Luogo “traboccante” vita vissuta come fosse ancora abitato da chi l’ha fortemente voluta per la sua Famiglia, è altra cosa!

L’ho scoperta cercando notizie su Suo padre ed ho trovato un Artista nel senso reale del termine, che in modo sincero e del tutto naturale dona agli altri la Sua Personale lettura del mondo. È molto raro, questo!

Non sono su Fb ed ho visto ciò che ho potuto della Sua Arte, anche sul Suo sito.

Cucù-settete è, per me, di una tenerezza infinita, immediata e di una purezza perfetta, chiusa in sé.

La prima è la quinta della serie Autunno (dal Basso) sono quadri viventi; si potrebbe restare per ore col naso all’insù con la sensazione quasi di poter salire e avvicinarsi sempre più a tutto quel blu in alto: è realmente un luogo dove perdersi…

Capita anche a me, di perdermi a guardare le linee che si ripetono in natura; mi è successo anche quest’estate, in Galicia, ero con i piedi “a mollo” non distante dalla riva con un semplice telefonino in mano e… mi sono persa a fotografare (oltre ai miei piedi – motivo ricorrente!) la superficie dell’acqua leggermente increspata da piccole onde che si ripetevano con lo stesso ritmo, quindi anche nello spazio. Ne è risultato un tappeto leggermente ondulato di sabbia attraverso la quasi totale trasparenza dell’acqua. Bello!

Mi piace la sua personale essenzialità nella lettura delle forme che sorprende in natura, restituendole pure e nuove. È un poeta della lettura naturale, in due parole. Riuscire a cogliere col massimo della semplicità la bellezza delle forme che ci circondano e ci includono e leggerle in maniera personale essenziale, poetica (nel senso di immagine immediata) è ciò che ogni essere umano dovrebbe esser capace di fare, semplicemente vivendo, e che son sicura molti altri esseri viventi, a nostra insaputa, facciano per natura. Non credo che la fantasia sia una prerogativa esclusivamente umana!

Sono stata felice di incontrarLa attraverso le Sue immagini… e mi fa anche piacere pensare che siamo anche “un po” parenti, ritrovandomi nel Suo modo di “sentire” e vivere ciò che ci circonda. Le auguro ogni bene per la Sua carriera artistica-vita, perché è soltanto col Cuore che si procede… qualunque sia l’inclinazione, istinto naturale, talento che ci anima e ci fa vivere, ognuno con la propria splendida unicità.

 

Un cordiale saluto e un abbraccio

Barbara Carla Maria Zampaloni

” Dialogue between painter’s brush and photographer’s brush “

 

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With me there will be the painter Paola NAPOLEONI

 

I could make a personal one but, I also wanted to involve very good, an academic.

 

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I could finally do it without paying anything … I was and I’m influenced and deleted the photographs without realizing it … I was stupid.

I could finally do it without paying anything … I was and I’m influenced and deleted the photographs without realizing it … I was stupid.

I could finally do it without paying anything … I was and I’m influenced and deleted the photographs without realizing it … I was stupid.

I could finally do it without paying anything … I was and I’m influenced and deleted the photographs without realizing it … I was stupid.

 

Article by Giuliana SANZANI – He publicly wanted to thank Dr. Giuliana SANZANI for the interview because he wrote by thread and sign what I told her, not omitting anything, an ethics to admire in this Italy that in ancient times could boast To have among its fellow citizens so many people of great value, the greatest of all was certainly Leonardo by VINCI, thanking you warmly for his exquisite professionalism, cordially the greeting, Ugo Maria CIONFRINI.

on its jets of water

Jets water is figures in movement
.
On Saturday, May 5, two exhibitions of Ugo Maria Cionfrini will be inaugurated in Calcata (VT)
Artistic photographer, with a professionally high-profile path behind it. Her
Peculiarity is to photograph jets of water through which, with his
Fantasy and a play of lights natural, Animates and interprets shapes, figures, objects,
Animals and moving characters, employing only 1/125 seconds.

The “Zampilli di vita” exhibition will open at 5 pm
The Le Tele Tolte gallery in the street
St. John 49, while “The pure soul of nature” will be inaugurated at 18pm

Baronale Anguillara Palace in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 4. Both, ad
Free admission, will be open until May 13th.

Com And where the idea of interpreting it, so differently, is that
Do we all see it as simple clutches? (Somewhere I read that she does
Reference to an area of Rome)

Answer: I was walking in this “area of Rome, imp
I looked back in front of a with this Zampillo and my attention was drawn
Of the thousand colors dancing around him, I heard myself calling from a voice that came from “the same”
not I can explain it to words but I started to open the stand, position my
reflex camera and I started taking frames to this “living” creature that is
The water itself. At every normal shot, 1/125, I felt something inside me,
every so I looked through the viewer and could see something surprising
tooth, this zampillo It seemed to have a soul, since 2009 I have not gone to
find it …

(Ugo Maria Cionfrini)

It can explain why 2 exhibitions at Calcata and at the same time?

Answer: … I soon said I had this opportunity being invited both
From the Councilor to Culture both from the gallery and since I liked the idea for me

very original to do two contemporary personal exhibitions I put it into practice

Article by Giuliana SANZANI – He publicly wanted to thank Dr. Giuliana SANZANI for the interview because he wrote by thread and sign what I told her, not omitting anything, an ethics to admire in this Italy that in ancient times could boast To have among its fellow citizens so many people of great value, the greatest of all was certainly Leonardo by VINCI, thanking you warmly for his exquisite professionalism, cordially the greeting, Ugo Maria CIONFRINI.

on its jets of water

Jets water is figures in movement
.
On Saturday, May 5, two exhibitions of Ugo Maria Cionfrini will be inaugurated in Calcata (VT)
Artistic photographer, with a professionally high-profile path behind it. Her
Peculiarity is to photograph jets of water through which, with his
Fantasy and a play of lights natural, Animates and interprets shapes, figures, objects,
Animals and moving characters, employing only 1/125 seconds.

The “Zampilli di vita” exhibition will open at 5 pm
The Le Tele Tolte gallery in the street
St. John 49, while “The pure soul of nature” will be inaugurated at 18pm

Baronale Anguillara Palace in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II, 4. Both, ad
Free admission, will be open until May 13th.

Com And where the idea of interpreting it, so differently, is that
Do we all see it as simple clutches? (Somewhere I read that she does
Reference to an area of Rome)

Answer: I was walking in this “area of Rome, imp
I looked back in front of a with this Zampillo and my attention was drawn
Of the thousand colors dancing around him, I heard myself calling from a voice that came from “the same”
not I can explain it to words but I started to open the stand, position my
reflex camera and I started taking frames to this “living” creature that is
The water itself. At every normal shot, 1/125, I felt something inside me,
every so I looked through the viewer and could see something surprising
tooth, this zampillo It seemed to have a soul, since 2009 I have not gone to
find it …

(Ugo Maria Cionfrini)

It can explain why 2 exhibitions at Calcata and at the same time?

Answer: … I soon said I had this opportunity being invited both
From the Councilor to Culture both from the gallery and since I liked the idea for me

very original to do two contemporary personal exhibitions I put it into practice

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 For the moment he will dedicate himself body and soul to the publication of his book,

he made all the exhibitions because they gave him the opportunity to do them without paying (IN PRINCIPLE BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT IF ONE PAYS, ALL ARE GOOD) … If they offered him interesting places “he’ll see” otherwise he prefers not to show his works at large public, thank you all!

Sorry but, from now on, if you have to participate in any collective or personal, you will want a contract with specified “everything”

instead with the last collective exhibition at the museum he did not expect anything, trusting and hurt as usual THEY HAVE NOT INSERTED THE NAMES OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COLLECTIVE even on the invitation in the on the site of the Museum it is as if they did not exist …

I WILL GO IN SEARCH OF SPONSORS

 

I will start working hard to make it happen from 2021 when I will finally be a free man!

For family reasons I stayed close to my mother so as not to put her the caregiver that you do not want!

 

HOORAY ART!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 For the moment he will dedicate himself body and soul to the publication of his book,

he made all the exhibitions because they gave him the opportunity to do them without paying (IN PRINCIPLE BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT IF ONE PAYS, ALL ARE GOOD) … If they offered him interesting places “he’ll see” otherwise he prefers not to show his works at large public, thank you all!

Sorry but, from now on, if you have to participate in any collective or personal, you will want a contract with specified “everything”

instead with the last collective exhibition at the museum he did not expect anything, trusting and hurt as usual THEY HAVE NOT INSERTED THE NAMES OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COLLECTIVE even on the invitation in the on the site of the Museum it is as if they did not exist …

I WILL GO IN SEARCH OF SPONSORS

 

I will start working hard to make it happen from 2021 when I will finally be a free man,

HOORAY ART!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 For the moment he will dedicate himself body and soul to the publication of his book,

he made all the exhibitions because they gave him the opportunity to do them without paying (IN PRINCIPLE BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT IF ONE PAYS, ALL ARE GOOD) … If they offered him interesting places “he’ll see” otherwise he prefers not to show his works at large public, thank you all!

Sorry but, from now on, if you have to participate in any collective or personal, you will want a contract with specified “everything”

instead with the last collective exhibition at the museum he did not expect anything, trusting and hurt as usual THEY HAVE NOT INSERTED THE NAMES OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COLLECTIVE even on the invitation in the on the site of the Museum it is as if they did not exist …

I WILL GO IN SEARCH OF SPONSORS

 

I will start working hard to make it happen from 2021 when I will finally be a free man!

For family reasons I stayed close to my mother so as not to put her the caregiver that you do not want!

 

HOORAY ART!!!

 

 

 

 

 

 For the moment he will dedicate himself body and soul to the publication of his book,

he made all the exhibitions because they gave him the opportunity to do them without paying (IN PRINCIPLE BECAUSE HE SAYS THAT IF ONE PAYS, ALL ARE GOOD) … If they offered him interesting places “he’ll see” otherwise he prefers not to show his works at large public, thank you all!

Sorry but, from now on, if you have to participate in any collective or personal, you will want a contract with specified “everything”

instead with the last collective exhibition at the museum he did not expect anything, trusting and hurt as usual THEY HAVE NOT INSERTED THE NAMES OF THE PARTICIPANTS OF THE COLLECTIVE even on the invitation in the on the site of the Museum it is as if they did not exist …

I WILL GO IN SEARCH OF SPONSORS

 

I will start working hard to make it happen from 2021 when I will finally be a free man,

HOORAY ART!!!

 

 

 

 

 

WE HAVE HOSPITAL-PHOTOGRAPHY: LIFE PUSHES

Article by Ugo Maria Cionfrini – Guest Guest of La Lampadina.

My friend Beppe Zezza – in fact he is my mother’s friend, a matter of registry – is my esteem. He enrolled me among the recipients of the Bulbul’s newsletter and are months that “tamps” asking me to write an article describing my artistic inspiration. “The Light Bulb” – he says, and I must recognize it with reason – always dedicates a space to art and is therefore a suitable place. “

But talking about oneself is difficult for an artist: what drives him is an “inner fire” but talking to him in the tones he “feels” inevitably rises to appear “over the lines”!

For friendship with Beppe, I try.

Who I am? A photographer. A photographer is curious. For this innate curiosity, when free from the (harsh) commitments that life imposes for the necessity of bringing together bread and something else, I have always turned with the Reflex to fix environments, colors, characters that impressed my imagination.

One day I found myself in front of a fountain and I began to look at the water bubble and there was a “strange” fact: my attention was attracted to the colors that played around To him and I felt like a voice, coming from the “same” he called me. Then I took the Reflex, mounted the tripod and started shooting. The zampillo was no more inert matter but a living creature that took new and fantastic aspects from time to time. Awesome and … exciting thing.

Photographic technology has made it possible to translate the emotions I have tried in an “objective” way and allowed me to share and convey them. Great is my satisfaction when, in the numerous exhibitions in which I have exposed the best of my shots, I see in the eyes of the visitors the same amazement I felt and try.

My hope (or illusion?) Is that the attitude of curiosity regarding the life and its hidden aspects that distinguishes me and that is the soul of my work can be transfigured in those who look at them.

Some notes that visitors have attached to exhibitions in sign-books may serve as an example: “I have found what your eye has seen and reinterpreted for those who do not see!” “In the millennium of a second is the” Form “of nature”. “Only a very careful eye is able to perceive what the common eye can not even see.”

In the image attached to this article I give you an idea of what I do ..

At my next show you will be all invited! To see and … comment.

Ugo Maria Cionfrini

• I have to insert the press release of prof. Stefano PAPETTI asking him HUMILY sorry, but it was not my fault because in the published book MONDADORI was not entirely included his thoughts on me – I had sent it in full (LOGICALLY) but, someone had the great idea to cut the press release in the part (above all) more significant of my creations, thanks to all.

 

• Water sculptures … according to prof. Stefano PAPETTI director of the Pinacoteca di Ascoli Piceno

 

Press release

The water has always competed in various ways in the creation of suggestive plastic shapes, modeling the rock with its slow flowing or driping drop after drop to make it assume anthropomorphic forms: but water also contributed to the success of some of the most Stunning creations of the Baroque age, as evidenced by the scenic fountains conceived by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and its eighteenth-century epigones for some of the most beautiful squares in Rome.

Can you imagine the Fountain of the Four Rivers, that of the Triton or, finally, the Trevi Fountain, without water intervening with its sound and its bright effects to make the images sculpted in marble so amazing? Variably modulated thanks to the ability of hydraulic pipes directed by a skilled director, water is made to form large fans that overlap the plastic images modeled by the Bernini or create thin bushes that, bathed in bathtub tub, make it bright and vibrant The sculptural dynamics created by the artist: neither the musical component produced by the water, whose sounds, similar to those generated by an instrument, will be underestimated, creating an auditory suggestion that enhances the theatricality of sculptural apparatus. (INSERTED PART).

Ever accustomed to the careful consideration of the city in which he studied, Ugo Maria Cionfrini has set in some memorable photographic images the discharge of water from the jet of a Roman fountain: as he himself admits, it is always the same fountain as If the “artistic potential” of the water can only be expressed in that place, where seemingly imponderable aspects, such as the force of the jet or the movement produced by the air, can produce situations that are impossible elsewhere.

Fixing for a long time with the aim of releasing liquid from the jet, Cionfrini has been able to stop liquid shapes that recall animals and recognizable figures: dogs, such as carlino, terranova, poodle and pitt-bull or birds like germano or More exotic forms such as those of the elephant and the bear, come to mind by carefully watching the arrangement of water that seems to correspond to a precise design born of the mind of a genial creator. With his photographs, Cionfrini fixes images that disappear within a moment, so that they can capture in the water zoomorphic or anthropomorphic shapes that exist only if they are photographed: so is photography to eternate the solutions Plastics otherwise lost, overwhelmed by the liquidity of the generating matter and the force of gravity.

 

One has to wonder if Ugo Maria Cionfrini is only a lucky photographer who has had the chance to seize what escapes the distracted eye of the passer, or if he is not an artist with a particular sensibility and a creative ability expressing Through previously unpublished modes. Of course we propose this second hypothesis.

 

Stefano PAPETTI

 

(PARTY FALLED AND, SECOND MORE IMPORTANT)

 

 

 

Some people are forced to be leaders because they simply fail to follow others.

They are rebels, in the positive sense of the term, they do not feel comfortable in the fixed structure of organizations and sometimes even in social institutions.

They have an urgent need to differentiate themselves from the rest and often feel what their mission is, perceiving their uniqueness or being destined for great results.

Our mission is therefore to recognize leadership as it seeks and strengthens it.

  Ugo Maria Cionfrini Artista con il Cuore, with the genius and beauty of his photographic works, represents the philosophy of excellence

inspired by our baptized * WOMAN IMPRESSA MAGAZINE ITALIA, who does not omit to value this leadership also to men Which,

we women, in our path of emancipation, we must learn to live peacefully.*

Society is made of men and women, let’s not forget it, and not of the supremacy of one gender on the other.

I aspire to a mature and conscious society that is based on the principle of meritocracy in the complementarity of biological and genetic sexes.

CARE is my motto.

This is an acronym that means “integrity”. I renew the pleasure and honor of having Ugo Maria Cionfrini among the pages of my magazine.

Valeriana MARIANI

 

Ugo Maria Cionfrini Artist with the Heart, with the genius and beauty of his photographic works,

represents the philosophy of excellence inspired by our baptized * WOMAN IMPRESSA MAGAZINE ITALIA,

who does not omit to value this leadership also to men Which, we women, in our path of emancipation, we must learn to live peacefully.

Valeriana MARIANI

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