Giasco Bertoli's photographs address issues of youth and a sense of loss, while aiming for international references through the use of the individual. The title, "I went to see a friend of mine who turned thirty-three years old, in his room I found a pile of 33 lp's with the word blue on each cover title, I compiled them in alphabetical order", appears in the two panel photograph as a caption. Literally, it describes the collection of photographs, where it came from, and the lp's relation/non relation to each other. From Tricky to Coltrane, The Rolling Stones to Miles Davis, Foghat to Johnny Cash, the color blue and the particular collection of records create the subject matter.
As with other of the artist's photographic series, through the iconography of music and the memory of the album, this piece traces an individual history and a more universal one: mass production.
Bertoli has a curated section in issue #14 of zingmagazine entitled "15 Love", and another in zingmagazine issue #17 entitled "In a Year of 13 Moons (1978)". He also contributed the second poster in the zingmagazine poster series, "Sunset", which appeared in zingmagazine issue #15.
Devon Dikeou
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