Tears of Eros

Tears of Eros is a declared homage to Georges Bataille. The portraits in this series exude sensual beauty and pain.
My work in recent years has focused on female iconography. In particular, two projects still under construction.
Gloomy Sunday (imaginary portraits of women who chose death) and Misty Beethoven Erotic Parade.
Gloomy Sunday is a series of imaginary portraits of fifty women suicide. Women of cinema, art, literature and imagination played by actresses, artists and ordinary women with a strong likelihood with the characters represented . between These Sylvia Plath, Ann Sexton, Emma Bovary, Frida Kahlo, Virginia Woolf and Sarah Kane.
The "Misty Beethoven Erotic Parade" is a photographic journey through the icons of desire. Thirty pictures of sinners in a search that begins with the birth of photography and arrives today A festive kaleidoscope of sensual heroines drawn from the collective imagination.
"Tears of Eros" is a targeted selection extrapolated from these two works.

These photographs by Angelo Jacks, under the title Tears of Eros, there is the solitude of female figures, critical instant of a tragedy already absorbed a mourning already developed in culture, or emphasized in a strange erotic reasoning from translation fugitive. Women are enclosed in the enchanting figure of a story occurred, a role already played, but which are separated (...). Women's Tremor genuine and impassive, as if wanting to close, how to complain again, that may never be the last, really. What has been, has the modesty of women, which, it turns out that slow down as a tear without gravity, all that remains is groped to stop time, in the fiction of art intentions to study, knowing that there forget.

(Andrea Tsvetkov Sanguigni)

Biografia

Angelo Cricchi was born in Rome in 1961.
After a long experience as a professional athlete began his career as a fashion photographer.
Collaborates with Italian and international magazines such as iD, D / repubblica, Rollin Stone Italian French and Japanese versions of Elle.
In 1997 he created, with Susanna Ferrante, the studio Lost & Found which leads advertising campaigns for Kenzo, Miss Sixty, Max Mara, Byblos, Diesel, Antonio Marras
Since 2002, is director making short films and video art, including
I LIMIT (50 Venice Biennial)
mano d'opera (Masedu of Sassari) (with Silvia Morani)
and Atelier 2004 (six small films with artists of the School of San Lorenzo)
Among the photographic projects
"Fiori di Atlis" (portraits of Olympic athletes)
"ignoto a me stesso" (self-portraits and portraits of artists).
"il mio cuore messo a nudo (naked women with small defects)
2The River 2 (4x5 portraits of water made along the major rivers of the world).