ALESSANDRO GIULIANO
Self Contained

a cura di Chiara Vigliotti

19 dicembre 2009 > 19 febbraio 2010

Inaugurazione: sabato 19 dicembre 2009, ore 18:00-22:00

In this new series of large format color photos, the artist’s search, after the success of Scie di passaggio, presented in Rome in 2008, returns with force on the theme of travel as a metaphor of life. The fascination of this theme has to be found in its ability to reflect man's way for discovering the world and himself and to convey, through a variety of languages, the complexity of the traveler’s experiences and emotions.
Travelling represents the existential way for those who are looking for a conscious and full life dimension, the restlessness and dissatisfaction in front of the banality and certainty of everyday life. Facing the journey means to accept the risk of encounters and dangers, to run into difficulties and uncertainties that let man test themselves, mature and gain greater self-awareness and knowledge of the world.
Giuliano captures, in his pictures, big moving structures, since childhood representing experiential vehicles in which are not important the beginning and the end, but what matters is the specific meaning of the container and its contents: "…as a child I dreamed of travelling hidden in a ship , inside a boat. Then I got dressed in a smart uniform, a modern Corto Maltese ... forever in search of life and dream ... I was a boat and life was the sea "(AG).
Together with the new series of photographs, the exhibition will also include the installation Scie di passaggio, 2008.

"Marvellous solitude, the life and work of Alessandro Giuliano, photographer  who has produced an art project on the feeling emanating from his work experience. The images in this book declare it openly: the past bore its fruits, leaving the protagonist gifted with the knowledge that the way of journeying was something else. Not only obligation due to profession but pure experimentation that gave birth to a broader project with a serious research behind its back.
Places, people with their faces always hidden, they look familiar to those who have travelled at least once or even forced many times by work.
Alessandro Giuliano’s aesthetic choice is that of showing them to us as his eye has caught them across the years, so marvellously solitary.
Omnivorous of spaces covered thousands of times, walking to and from in the cabin, seated next to a collegue during take off and again for landing. Hotels are always the same, even if in different cities, as to mark that this is the real globalization. But Alessandro Giuliano does not care about the political effect of his profession. His is the look behind the viewfinder, as if to remember the absent-minded spectator that behind the shutter there is the photographer, and he is the one to decide which way to show us that world. He has not been the first and will not be the last to focus on who works at high altitudes, but the fact that his job has become an exhibition fully entitles him as an artist.Alessandro Giuliano has been the first protagonist of this series of photographic works, or better of our perce
ption as spectators when we watch these images. The technique is purposely analogic and focuses on an exclusive use of colour, and very often on out of focus. To tell the tale of one’s life through images in a daily diary, in which different states of mind alter the realistic sense of the tale.." Chiara Vigliotti

Biography
Alessandro Giuliano lives and works between Rome and Naples. Graduated in Scienze Politiche in Naples at University Federico II. In 2004/05 full Professor of Photographic Technique at l’I.P.S.C.T.P “Angeloni” in Frosinone.
Collective Exhibitions:
2007. 24 PHOTOGRAPHY, London, UK; 2006. 24 PHOTOGRAPHY, London, UK
Personal Exhibitions:
2008 Scie di passaggio, Galleria Le Opere, Rome;  2004 Biennale del Teatro, Venezia; 2003 GLAMnatic LOL modartedesign, Rome; 2002 Naples meets “i Negri” di Jean Genet,Nuovo Teatro Nuovo, Naples; 2001 Angelo HST, photographic installation Angelo Russo Studio.
From 2002 to 2004 has collaborated as a professional photographer in many Italian and International Festivals and events: 2003 “Young directors project” Salzburg Festspiele; 2004 “Lille cultural capital of Europe”.
Publications:
2000 “Teatro in movimento” edition NTN, Naples; 2003 Porcile - Der Schweinestall edit by SALZBURG FESTSPIELE