Andrea Simonato, Antro

Antro

Andrea Simonato

Publisher
Kult Books
Year
2025
ISBN
978-91-987606-3-7
Specifications
OTA bound softcover with flaps
23 x 29.5 cm
112 pages
73 photographs
Tritone offset printing
First edition of 500 copies
Designed by Janne Riikonen
Shortlisted for the Fotofabbrica Prize 2026

Delving beneath the surface of everyday life, Andrea Simonato explores a world of underground caves and stone quarries in his second monograph, Antro. Historically prompting a wide array of interpretations -such as sacred boundaries between the human and divine, practical places of refuge or dwellings of the supernatural- caves have attracted countless cultures due to their distinctly ambiguous qualities. Today, these underground structures offer a stark contrast to the precisely defined nature of our above-ground surroundings. The entanglement of corridors and caverns seemingly strip themselves of worldly notions and, in their presence, ask us to do the same. Wandering through a cluster in the hills of South Vicenza, Italy, Andrea delicately approaches both the intricacies and magnitude of these spaces.

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