The Cassa Pensioni di Lugano (Lugano Pension Fund) on the occasion of its 150th activity report, invited Cosimo Filippini to create Intermezzo. This photographic portraiture project involves people activly insured be the commissioning Pension Fund.
Cosimo Filippini shot the images in 2022 and completed the cycle in 2023. The set includes 28 people portrayed at their working space, combined with three compositions of words that were expressed by the participants in response to the moment spent together during the composition of the shots.
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Cosimo Filippini is a Swiss artist. In 1999, he moved to Milan where, in 2004, he graduated in Economics for Arts, Culture and Communication from Università L. Bocconi and, in 2006, earned his piano diploma from the G. Verdi Conservatory of Music. In 2006, he began working as a photographer, at first collaborating with the art and architecture photographer Václav Šedý with whom he had the opportunity to further study the use of the view camera. From 2010 he specialized in photographing exhibitions and artworks.
In 2018, he was granted an artist residency by ProHelvetia, the Viavai+ project, and participated in VIR – Via Farini in Residence in Milan. In 2020 he was invited by the Kirchner Museum in Davos to do photographic performances on portraiture.
Recently, his attention has turned to participatory art practices, as in the residency project Adamà Adamà, figli della terra rossa at Casa degli Artisti di Milano, during House of Switzerland, a program by Pro Helvetia and Presence Switzerland, the office of the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs.