IN CONVERSATION WITH NINO MIGLIORI

The following are thoughts by Nino Migliori taken from an interview conducted on June 20, 2016, by Enrico Ratto and published by Maledetti Fotografi at www.maledettifotografi.it:

“Each of us interprets reality through our own culture, which is, as I often like to quote, what remains when everything else is forgotten.”

“… one of my references is Lucretius and his ‘De rerum natura,’ which led me to create my first work on this theme, ‘Herbarium,’ in 1974. It deals with beauty and its inexorable change until dissolution, but it maintains its charm and pleasantness even in the moment of death.”

“For me, photography is communication, a need to tell something, it means expressing an idea, a feeling, a thought through images.”

“… for me, what matters is the project; then, if the realization also has visual appeal, you achieve the maximum.”

“Beauty is a category that changes over time, so it is not absolute.”

“Those who pursue beauty for its own sake cannot reproduce a model with minimal variations, and this is something that bores me because, as I already mentioned, what interests me is the project, the ability to narrate. And if you want to write different stories, you cannot always propose the same pattern.”

“The three reference points that have always accompanied me are Lucretius, whom I have already mentioned, Leonardo, and Duchamp. Leonardo for the continuous research, the desire to experiment endlessly, the awareness that one has never arrived; Duchamp for the need to break the rules, for the pleasure of creating independently of applause, even designing without realizing.”

“Essentially, everything undergoes metamorphosis; we are constantly changing with cellular renewal.”