The 22nd volume of the artist's journal that the photographer has been publishing for over two decades.
Since 2002, Giasco Bertoli has published Roses Tatouées in the form of a journal. Issue 22 appears in winter, as did the very first. Originally, the journal was to appear only four times, for each season of a single year. In the end, the project never stopped, defying eternity, just like those menhirs that sometimes make incursions into an artist's personal lyricism. Their encounters give rise to romantic situations that can inspire a form of happiness.
Published on the occasion of Giasco Bertoli's exhibition "Formes of Happiness" at delpire & co, Paris, in 2025.
Giasco Bertoli (born 1965 in Cevio, Switzerland) is a Swiss Italian photographer who lives and works in Paris. He discovers photography at the age of twelve, when he receives his first camera, a Kodak Instamatic Pocket 200. He studied photography at the European Institute of Design in Milan and at the New School in New York. Since the 1990s, his work has focused on sport, cinema, youth, music and landscape. Bertoli is interested in both the dreamlike and ordinary dimensions of everyday life, exploring the landscapes of his native Switzerland, swimming pools, garages and other evidence of habitation and nature. He regularly contributes to various international publications, including the magazine Purple, in which many of his portraits are published.
