Kosmogonika is called Photo-Panting, and is based on an aphorism of the Greek philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus "Panta Rhei", in which everything flows, says Heraclitus, "everything moves and nothing stands still ... in constant change". The camera no longer has its canonical role, the machine is no longer seen as an "eye on the real" but an extraordinary means of capturing the abstract, conceptual and dreamlike soul of reality. So Kosmogonika goes to represent the set of fragments of a journey, driven by the desire to remove as much as possible the observer from the subject; in this case, the nature that the artist manages to make almost immaterial, strongly poetic but never fantastic, allowing purely objective reality to show all those qualities invisible to the human eye, returned in these shots through subtle textures and a strongly intimate approach. Creative processes made possible only through the alteration of the space-time coordinates and a masterful use of light and color, fundamental aspects in the definition and transmission, technique and experience for the benefit of the perceptual aspect. A set of processes that, although mechanical, make the shots not very far from painting. By marrying the nineteenth-century tradition, which wants the rejection of physical form through the use of light and a correct exaltation of colors, it succeeds magnificently in rendition of sensations and reality is returned to the observer through the exaltation of the fleeting moment. The goal? Capturing the incapturable. Through the shots we can enter that "other" world that goes "beyond" the visible. At first sight only hybrid forms, but in reality the only ones capable of revealing the original indeterminacy, the primordial confusion and the profluvium of meanings; abstract forms of a concrete world, the only ones able to represent all perfection in its real totality.
Anselmo De Filippis was born in a small town in the south of Italy, in Calabria, Cosenza on the 26th of March, 1966.
From an early age he was passionate about the art world, especially music and photography. At the age of ten he played the guitar and received his first camera.
He left home very early. He supported himself working in the theater as a technician and playing in a Rock band (The Kartoons). During this time, his true passion for photography and video matured. He undertook courses at an artictic association, and released his first short film inspired by the "worst of youth", which explored the difficult lives of the young people of his neighborhood. He also exhibited in several collectives. In 2004 he was one of the founding members of the cultural association "The Six Sisters", which organised festival and cinematic events.
He collaborated for several years with the "Mario Gallo film award", dedicated to the producer by the same name. In 2007 he was a tutor at the first professional training course for cinema organised by Arbalak film productions and the Calabria region. In 2008 he founded "Ares" Cinematographic productions.
He continued to nourish his passion for photography, experimenting with different techniques. It was only in 2017 that he decided to publish his photos, given strong encouragement received by art historian and critic Alessandra Carelli. "Kosmogonika" was thus born, consisting of 46 tables published by the Argentine publishing house "The Black Sheep".
