Enzo Obiso concentrated his research on Sicily, returning at various periods of the year to refresh his work and above all in order to make the most of the different intensities of light that changed from month to month. The final selection of works favours winter, when the battle between dark and light is the most bitter, when the shadows attack the landscape with determination and in a brief period make it uniform and impenetrable. Apart from the large cities of Palermo and Catania, artificial lighting, especially away from the coast, is rare and dim. lt is therefore inevitable that one still feels the presence of History which during the day has appeared in many various guises along the coast, in the valleys, in the small villages that are passed across the length and breadth of the island. The author has gathered a few fragments in a small, precious format of what has survived time. They are like simple sketches of a well-known large, important commission; sometimes they are delicate tones and sometimes barely outlined. By abstracting them from their natural context - we never see people or other forms of animal life - and fixing them at the centre of the composition, these fragments wish to express the spiritual force of the places, that special value that only photography can return to us every time in a different form.

Filippo  Maggia

From Cat.:
"Da Guarene all'Etna, via mare, via terra" 1999
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation 
Exposition:
Taormina Ex Chiesa del Carmine 1999/2000
Modena Palazzini dei Giardini 2000
Napoli Villa Pignatelli  2000 
Milano Palazzo delle Stelline 2001
Tokio Metropolitan Museum of Fotography 2002