Born in Naples, Italy, 5th May 1987
Currently in London
Photographer, Lecturer, Curator
Co-founder and president of the Cultural Association Presente Infinito
Graduated with a Master degree in Cinema, Television and New Media
Exhibitions
As photographer:
collectives
Fotografia alla Carriera. Omaggio della fotografia italiana ai maestri del Compasso d’Oro, Curators: Giovanni Chiaramonte and Michele Nastasi, ADI Design Museum, Milan, October 2023 – October 2024
Madonie Paesaggi- 1973/2021 Fondo storico e nuove committente, Curators: Sandro Scalia and Emilia Valenza, Palazzo Pucci Martinez, Petralia Sottana (PA), permanent exhibition starting from September 2022
La bellezza del Sacro – Milano e la Scuola Beato Angelico 1921 – 2021, conceived and curated by Fondation Scuola Beato Angelico, Jacopo Benedetti, Umberto Bordoni, Riccardo Cavallaro, Alessandro Nanni with Giovanni Chiaramonte, Fondazione Stelline, Milan, 2021 – 2022
C’est quoi pour vous la photographie ? Les réponses de Bernard Plossu et de ses ami(e)s photographes, Association Helio – Centre de Promotion et de Création Photographique, conceived by Bernard Plossu, Galerie Nadar Médiathèque André Malraux, Tourcoing, 2021 – 2022
Horizons ou du corps du monde Curated by Marcello De Masi, La Bonne Graine School, Paris, 2020
5: A Celebration of the Senses Curated by Stefano di Lorenzo, Failsafe Festival 2017 – The Grand Theatre @ The Producer Club, New York, 2017 and Alchemical Theatre Laboratory, New York, 2015
I see what you see but I see more Curated by Simonetta d’Italia Wiener and Mark Bussell, New York Encounter 2017 – Reality has never betrayed me, Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, 2017
Per Milano: il giardino e la città Curated by Marcello De Masi, SpazioBad, Milan, 2016
Opening day Heillandi Gallery, Lugano, 2016
Presente Infinito
Palazzo Ziino, Palermo, patronage by the Academy of fine Arts and the Town Council, in collaboration with Sandro Scalia, 2014
Tito Balestra Fondation for modern and contemporary Art, Longiano / in the Festival SIFEST, 2014
House of Poetry, Urbino, patronage by the Academy of fine Arts and the Town Council, 2015
Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, patronage by the Town Council, 2015
Architettura 46 – Architetture padane Holy Spirit Church (Departement of Architecture - University of Bologna) Cesena, 2013
personals:
Invisibile Carezza Popup Design Gallery, Milan, collaboration with Il Conservatorio della Fotografia, 2014
Rive Cialuna centre, Barletta, with the writer Giorgio Damato and the actor Gabriele Genovese, December 2013 – January 2014
As curator:
Horizons ou du corps du monde Authors: Simone Casetta, Marcello De Masi, Marc Deneyer, Émeline Hamon, Catherine Rebois - École La Bonne Graine, Paris, 2020
Michel Castermans, Frontière – Grens Théâtre Sénart – Scène national, Lieusaint, 2019
Marc Deneyer, Herbes Espace Lecture, Sivry-Courtry - Salle Rouger Houel, Champdeuil - Salle de la Source, Féricy - 2019
Simone Casetta – CHIOS, frontière ouverte? Théâtre Sénart – Scène national, Lieusaint, 2019
Vicinanze. Studi per un’idea di attraversamento Authors: Chiara Arturo et Cristina Cusani - Off Gallery, Naples, 2018 – 2019
Attraverso il giardino – Due riflessioni naturali Authors: Chiara Arturo et Cristina Cusani - Giardini Ravino, Ischia (NA), 2018
Simone Casetta – Fuori campo Galerie Hors Champ, Sivry-Courtry, 2017
Per Milano: il giardino e la città Authors: Giovanni Chiaramonte, Simone Casetta, Luigi Fiano, Lorenzo Martelli, Marcello De Masi - SpazioBad, Milan, 2016
Giovanni Chiaramonte Grande Vasca (Academy of Fines Arts), Cantieri culturali della Zisa, Palerme, 2013
As assistant curator:
MH Art Project Artistic residence for LVMH Louis Vuitton Möet Hennesy and Barbarito Bancel Architectes, Curator: Gianpaolo Arena, authors: Carlos Casas, Céline Clanet, Alex Cretey Sistermans, François Deladerrière, Matthieu Gafsou, Mathieu Bernard Reyumond, Jan Stradtmann, Laura Pugno, 2020
Teaching
Visual Studies - Theory, history and technique of Photography - Image’s Dramaturgy
University and Academy
2011 - 2019 University IULM, Master Degree of Cinema, Television and New Media, Milan, Italy
2014 - 2017 NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts), Undergraduate Course of Study in Scenic Design, Milan, Italy
2011 - 2014 Architecture University of Bologna, Italy
Lectures and Conferences
French Delegation of Gulbenkian Foundation, Paris, France
Faculty of Architecture in Bologna, Italy
Academy of Fine Arts of Palermo, Italy
Polytechnic of Bari, Italy
Sapri Jazz Waves Clinics, Italy
Italian Federation of the photographic Associations
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