Non vedrò per sempre by Azt

#NSFW18! Azt is a gay, HIV+, Italian artist. Born in 1974, he lives and works in Bologna. His interest for photography made him first develop the most narrative aspects of the medium, as in an exquisite torture (2006), histoire d’eau (2008) or where is my mind? (2007-2015) – where he frequently used his own naked body as an instrument for identity search and emotive expression together with urban landscapes and details. Since 2007 he has dedicated himself almost exclusively to portraying naked men within his many male nudes series. 

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a note on

non vedrò per sempre

a meditation on time through men bodies and skin

“non vedrò per sempre”, in italian, means “I won’t see forever”.

Many years ago I totally fell in love with Derek Jarman’s “Blue”, one of the most beautiful productions of human genius ever.

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He made it in his latest days, when AIDS almost completely took him off his sight.

He saw blue and blue was the world.

As an artist living with HIV I always wonder “What if?” – What if one day I lose my sight?

Sculpture may be the answer, of course.

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But I wanted to do something more, I wanted to impress on my mind the images of my favourite subjects: naked men.

I chose men of different ages and body shapes and photographed them, I composed some sort of a visual testament. Freckles, scars, spots, stretchmarks, body hair, curves, lines, shapes, everything became an element of an incredibly new and stimulating world, made of skin and flesh. Made by and of time.
Time changes our bodies, society tells us we lose our beauty.
I think we don’t lose anything, we gain. In time our bodies become able to tell. They become novels: they tell without words stories of joy, pain, love, abandon, arousal, fear, lost, hope, passion. Time makes our bodies alive, photography steals just some fragments and makes them eternal.

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