| On April 18th, 2009 I would turn 34; I live and work in Milan, Italy. In my pictures I deal with eroticism. I often perform my fantasies or situations from my imagination. The characters you find in my photos are imaginary. I do not make portraits; the models become actors of a personal fantasy. Having said that, I don’t mean there’s no change. Sometimes the image I create, even if it has been projected before, modifies spontaneously when I shoot, absorbing external stimuli from the atmosphere at the location of the shoot, or the feeling among the people at the set. My pictures are erotic, and I don’t mind at all if you can find them more on erotic Web sites than on artistic ones. I don’t want anything hidden behind eroticism. This “other” belongs to me, to my life, to my cultural background. I observe a lot of things: photography, cinema, art, but, more than anything, life. |  |
Danilo Pasquali
On April 18th, 2009 I would turn 34; I live and work in Milan, Italy. In my pictures I deal with eroticism. I often perform my fantasies or situations from my imagination. The characters you find in my photos are imaginary. I do not make portraits; the models become actors of a personal fantasy. Having said that, I don’t mean there’s no change. Sometimes the image I create, even if it has been projected before, modifies spontaneously when I shoot, absorbing external stimuli from the atmosphere at the location of the shoot, or the feeling among the people at the set.
My pictures are erotic, and I don’t mind at all if you can find them more on erotic Web sites than on artistic ones. I don’t want anything hidden behind eroticism. This “other” belongs to me, to my life, to my cultural background. I observe a lot of things: photography, cinema, art, but, more than anything, life. I try to recreate the atmospheres I feel, at a fetish party, for example. In my life exchange is important—exchange with my artist friends, and above all, with my girlfriend, who often deals with the same theme in painting but with a different point of view from mine. Right now I’m focusing on the pornographic part, very interesting from an experiential level, with the creation of an independent and alternative porno site, perhaps the only one in Italy.
I think pornography has a revolutionary energy for the private who exhibit themselves. Showing one’s own sexuality means strong responsibility, especially if you live 500 kilometers from the Pope in Catholic, hypocritical, and fascist Italy. The development of my work is open to environments that are not strictly erotic. I don’t want limitations, nor do I want to be labeled.
