Giovanni M. Slaviero is an Italian-French architect and engraver whose training and vision are nourished by a dual cultural heritage and a cosmopolitan background.
Born in Rome, a city that embodies the historical stratification and symbolic power of Western architecture, he grew up in an international environment that exposed him from an early age to a plurality of languages, aesthetics and ideas. The Roman context, steeped in Renaissance and Baroque, became the first fertile ground for his artistic sensibility, which developed in constant dialogue with places and form.
He moved to Paris after graduating from high school to study humanities in an hipokhâgne. He lived in the City of Light for about 15 years. Here he trained as an architect, exploring the relationship between space, structure and perception, and developing a vision that integrates technical rigour with openness to experimentation. The French capital, with its intellectual vitality and architectural heritage, became a laboratory of ideas for Slaviero.
A curious and tireless traveller, he has visited numerous countries. Each trip represents an opportunity for him to discover and compare the forms through which cultures express themselves: art, architecture, spirituality, rituality, landscape. These experiences fuel an open and reflective temperament, attentive to the differences and resonances between visual languages.
Professionally, Slaviero has devoted himself to computational architecture, working as a design assistant, 3D modeller and graphic designer. However, it is in the context of artistic research that a decisive turning point occurs: his encounter with an art printing house, the workplace of Renzo Vespignani and other illustrious artists, located in the historic centre of Rome, introduces him to the world of traditional engraving. Fascinated by the expressive power and physicality of the engraved mark, he decided to devote himself passionately to this practice and to Art, which allowed him to combine technique, thought and intuition.
His style is characterised by a mixture of figurative and abstract, in which the mark becomes a vehicle for narration, reflection and memory. His works address themes related to current events and the human condition, such as the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission (engraving published by ESA), the terrorist attacks against Charlie Hebdo, the migrations caused by conflicts with ISIS, the war in Ukraine, and the fireworks of the Festa del Redentore in Venice. Alongside these narratives, Slaviero also creates more intimate and visionary engravings, allowing himself to be guided by free thoughts, poetic intuitions and spontaneous inspirations, in an exercise of creative and stylistic freedom.
His architectural training continues to influence his artistic work, particularly in his search for dialogue between natural elements and built structures. Slaviero is interested in the genius loci, or spirit of places, which he seeks to capture and reinterpret through engraved marks. Rome, Paris and the cities he has visited thus become inner landscapes, spaces for contemplation and transformation.
His work acts as a bridge between architecture and engraving, between memory and current events, between form and thought.
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