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| Stefano De Luigi |
Opening: October 14
Ore 19:00 |
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Blanco Vision of Blindness
By Giovanna Calvenzi
Blindness affects one of the intellectual dilemmas of the photographer, which led him to investigate on its mirror opposite. Which color blindness? How intense? Stefano De Luigi tells something less visible, such as perceptions that allow blind people to relate with others and with the physical space around them. It is driven by curiosity of avid photographers, the desire to see, to know other people's universes that have their own rules, their behavior, their harmonies.
His long investigation ended after 5 years of travel, reports in 16 countries and four continents where Stefano De Luigi works with objectivity but fighting the inevitable waves of doing good and trying to deal with the lucidity of the entomologist who is studying other universes.
The photographic project was awarded by Blanco Eugene Smith Fellowship Grant in 2007 and published on the best international publications.
Blanco has also become a picture book, published by Trolleybooks.
In April / May 2010 an exhibition at the gallery becomes the seventh New York, a famous American photo agency that represents him.
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Biografia
Stefano De Luigi (Cologne, 1964) is an italian photographer.
In 1989 has carried out a reportage in South Africa on the “Home-lands”, showing the changes undergone in the country after the end of the apartheid. In 1990 he moved to Paris where the Grand Louvre Museum assign him the portrayal of the transformations of the museum during the Bicentenary celebrations.
In 1995 De Luigi’s attention is drawn by the world of television, a reportage published by the most important magazines worldwide with the title of “The global mirror”. In 1998 he starts working on italian and french fashion, “Celebrities”.
His photographs have been exhibited at the Festival of Edinburgh (1988), at the Espace Carousel du Louvre (1993) and in a collective exhibition at the Arles Festival in 1996.
In 1997 he was invited to take part at the “Masterclass of the World Press Photo Foundation”.
In 1999 he has been awarded with the World Press Photo in the “Arts Stories” category for his work on fashion world. In the same year he started “Pornoland”.
In 2000 he received an “Honorable Mention” from the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and his work was shown at Arles.
In 2001 he is invited to the “Festival do Imagem” in Braga, with a solo exhibition about Russian poverty.
In 2002 “Celebrities” becomes a solo exhibition at the Savignano International Festival.
In 2004 his new project “Pornoland”, a journey through the world porn industry, became a book with a text by Martin Amis, published by Contrasto, La Martinière,Thames and Hudson, and Knessebeck . Pornoland was presented with an exhibition in Paris, at REA Gallery, in Rome at Galleria Santa Cecilia (2005), in Naples at LANA Gallery (2006). The same exhibition has been invited to the “Transphotographic Festival 2007” in Lille, curated by Gabriel Bauret. Pornoland won the “Marco Bastianelli Price” in 2005.
At the end of 2004, Stefano De Luigi began the collaboration with CBMItalia to carry out a project about blindness worlwide.
In 2006 Blindness project received the support of Vision 2020 and the W. E. Smith Fellowship Grant in 2007.
Beetwen 2006 and 2008 Stefano De Luigi worked on a new project dedicated to the World Cinema, featured for countries, which narrate the alternative cinematographic scene, far from the Hollywood commercial system. Cinema Mundi which was ended in 2008 has covered the following countries: Argentina, Iran, Russia, South Korea, India, Nigeria and China.
In 2007 Cinema Mundi has been shown as a short in Locarno Film Festival in and has been awarded from World Press Photo, “Arts &Enterteinment”. In May 2008 De Luigi has joined the agency VII/ Network. In 2009 he received the award (Moving Walls 16) from the Soros Foundation and exhibit his work in New York.
In 2010, with his reportage on drought in Kenya, he won the 1° prize of Days Japan and the 2° prize in single contemporary issue by World Press Photo Foundation.
In March 2010 his book Blanco is published by Trolley. Stefano De Luigi features has been published among different magazines like Stern, Paris Match, Le Monde 2, Time, Newsweek, New Yorker, EyeMazing, Geo.
Stefano De Luigi lives in Milan. |
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