Livre d'artiste (une série de photographies oniriques de courts de tennis vides).
« I like to photograph tennis courts when they're empty, deserted,
abandoned, or in disrepair, and sometimes simply when it's raining and no
one's around and they can't be used. Seeing them in such a state has, for
me, a special kind of eroticism, like the memory of a former lover one
still feels for. Each court is in the midst of a landscape, near homes,
among trees, or next to streets or buildings. Some are like the ghosts of
a tennis court, with faded markings and sagging nets, where too many
seasons have passed and not enough care has been given to them. Gathered
together, these unoccupied tennis courts engender a special kind of
metaphysic, one that relates to the ceremonial combat of an organized
competition; the aesthetic atmosphere in which freedom and struggle
flourish. Seeing courts in such varied states as these is like coming upon
a memory, a new beginning, and another possibility all at once. »
Giasco Bertoli
Artiste « culte », Giasco Bertoli (né en 1965 à Cevio, Suisse) est un photographe italo-suisse basé à Paris. Il découvre la photographie à l'âge de douze ans, quand il reçoit son premier appareil photographique : un Kodak Instamatic Pocket 200. Il a étudié la photographie à l'Institut Européen de Design à Milan et à la New School à New York.
Il s'intéresse, au travers de ses divers projets photographiques (portraits, paysages de sa Suisse natale, piscines, garages, lieux d'habitation, arbres, mais aussi cinéma et musique...), aux dimensions à la fois oniriques et ordinaires du quotidien. Il collabore régulièrement à diverses publications internationales, dont le magazine Purple au sein duquel beaucoup de ses portraits sont publiés. Il édite le journal Roses Tatouées, un projet artistique depuis 2002.
