“The short text on the work and the thought of Giovanni Chiaramonte that follows is part of a wider study on the theme of light published in 2004. In that study I tried to show how, within human experience, no reflection on light can avoid facing the questions of the nature of the gaze and the standing of the image: every serious enquiry into light is obliged to reflect at the same time on looking and on the image itself.” — Silvano Petrosino