Riccardo Banfi

Tnx2013 - 2015

series of 39 photographs
inkjet prints, b/w
variable dimensions

“Tnx by Riccardo Banfi is the result of a research started in 2012 focussing on TENAX, an historic Florentine club active since the early 80s, today one of the leading venues of Italy’s house music scene. (…) As an entrance to Saturday’s Nobody’s Perfect night, a figure portrayed from behind is doing the honours, both intro and outro of an imaginary sequence that binds together the photographs and bears the first superimposed calligraphic clue: Wildlife. (…) Voracious observer and consumer of a musical culture of which he is part, Banfi still manages to establish the necessary distance to convey a vision, creating a text where also the sociological element prevails. In the clubbers’ portraits, genuine purely aesthetical presences, and in the choice of black and white, arises that nature of permanence that wraps the club’s ritual in a sort of periodic motion, destined to return, different in appearance but identical in essence, to a determined expression of a recreational, elusive, narcissistic craving.”

Excerpt from: Giulia Bini “IN FIRENZE L’ANNO MMXIII”, in Riccardo Banfi “Tnx”, Yes I am Writing A Book, Milano, 2015

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