GIANMARIA DE LUCA
Gianmaria De Luca is an artist working with photography and printmaking. He uses darkness to create with light. After getting to know his subjects, he waits for the evening to photograph them. Leaving his camera shutter open for tens of seconds in total darkness, he uses a torch to paint light onto his subjects.
His more recent projects have involved the construction of a large-scale camera obscura, one of the earliest photography techniques that similarly functions best in darkness. These methods play with contrast and invert normality to create surreal characters and dreamlike worlds, a signature of his work.
Born in Rome in 1988, Gianmaria combines classic Italian artistic tradition with inspiration drawn from different cultures experienced throughout his travels. His work to date includes fine art and reportage photography, experimental installations and work with notable artists and masters of costume and set design, journalism, and filmmaking as well as commissioned work for clients that include Fortuny, Concrete Playground, The Secret Garden Festival, Laneway Festival and Pietro Ruffo. He has exhibited globally throughout Italy, Northern Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 Camera obscura - La grotta e l'origine dell'arte figurativa, Circeo, Italy
2022 Camera obscura - Roma, Chiesa Nuova, Rome, Italy
2022 Limbo, L’Atlante, Teatro Tordinona, Rome, Italy
2021 Camera obscura - Roma (project), Chiesa di Santa Maria in Portico in Campitelli, Rome, Italy
2021 L’Atlante, Reportage, Serbia and Hungary
2021 Voyage en Italie, Salon Beauregard, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland Flux, Salon Beauregard, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2021 Open studio, Roma Art Rooms, Rome, Italy
2021Très Portraits, Salon Beauregard, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2021, Festival delle Periferie, MAAM Museo dell'Altro e dell'Altrove di Metropoliz, Rome, Italy2021, Flux ,Salon Beauergard, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland2021, Studio Opening exhibition, Lemon Studio, Rome, Italy2020, We as nature, Roma Art Week, Rome, Italy2020, Deconstruction Etude, LAAD Gallery, Online, Italy2020, Camera Oscura, Theatre performance, Studi Internazionali per la Sicilia, Palermo, Italy
2019, Camera Obscura, MACRO Museo, Rome, Italy2019, Visions, Salon Beauergard, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland2019, Collective exhibition, Roma Art Week, Rome, Italy2019, Arte Padova, Galleria Biasio, Padova, Italy2019, Exposition Collective, Square Studio, Monnetier-Mornex, France2018, Artrooms Fair, The Church Palace, Rome, Italy2018, Portraits - Hellerau Photography Award, European Center For The Arts Dresden, Dresden, Germany2018, Roma Art Week, Rome, Italy
2017, Atto Secondo, Takeaway Gallery, Rome, Italy2017, SetUp Contemporary Art Fair, B4 Gallery, Bologna, Italy2017, Open studio with curators Cinzia Manfredini & Manuel Vecchina, Venice, Italy2017, Cinzia Manfredini, Private Home Gallery, Milan, Italy2017, ArtasylumFermo, Italy2017, Capella Orsini Gallery, Rome, Italy
2016, vision ARyT, Mostra contemporanea a Villa Alba, Gardone Riviera, Italy
2015, Symphonic, Her Majesty’s Prison Crumlin Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2014, Open Night, Vibewire Creative Commons, Sydney, Australia2014, Homecoming, Void Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland2013, Known Unkown, Tap gallery, Sydney, Australia2013, Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Gallery of Ballarat, Ballarat, Australia2013, Progetto Calabiana, Salone Del Mobile, Milan, Italy2013, Karlsruhe Contemporary Art Fair, Frank Pages Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany2013, Double Je, Frank Pages Gallery, Crans Montanta, Switzerland
2012, Natarte, Galleria Vittoria, Rome, Italy2012, Explorer Collective, Demeure Beau Regard, Yverdon Les Bains Suisse, Switzerland2012, Casa Mostra, La Corte del Contemporaneo, Kora Diffusione Culturale, Amelia, Italy2012, Casa Mostra, Kora Diffusione Culturale, Rome, Italy
2011, Aperitivo D’Arte, curated by Achille Bonitoliva, D’Arte Wine bar, Rome, Italy2011, Mostra internazionale d’arte cinematografica, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Events at Rome Art Week
2023
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2022
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2021
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2020
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2019
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