Gian Luca Groppi: "TRIBUTO ALL’INESPRESSO"
© Gian Luca Groppi,Tribute to Stig Dagerman
About: Gian Luca Groppi
Italian
Gian Luca Groppi, è nato a Piacenza nel 1970, vive e lavora a Genova.
Dai 27 anni si dedica alla fotografia, prevalentemente in bianco e nero, stampata personalmente in camera oscura. Negli ultimi anni sperimenta anche il digitale a colori.
Definito dalla critica: “un cantastorie moderno che unisce sensibilità ed ironia, nascosta da una facciata di rigida serietà”, pratica l’arte come necessità, utilizzando mente e medium fotografico per esprimere la propria poetica: raccoglie e mette in scena, per disvelare e bonificare, i malesseri, i vuoti e le ansie della società, ammantandoli di un humor salvifico, piuttosto nero.
English
Gian Luca Groppi | Bio (Eng)
Gian Luca Groppi, born in Piacenza in 1970, lives and works in Genoa.
From the age of 27 he devoted himself to photography, mainly in black and white, that he printed personally in the dark room. In recent years he has also experimented with color digital photos.
Defined by the critics: "a modern storyteller who combines sensitivity and irony, hidden by a facade of rigid seriousness", he practices art as a necessity, using mind and photographic medium to express his poetics: he collects stories and create stages, to reveal and recovery illness, emptiness and anxieties of society, cloaking them in a saving, rather black, humor.
Groppi has many group and solo exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including:
Solo Exhibition:
2018 “La Chambre de Reves” , Spazio 46r, Palazzo Ducale, Genova (Italy), bipersonal with Silvia Noferi, curated by Virginia Monteverde
2015-16 “ Photographie hiver 2015-16” ,Centre d'Art Contemporain – Briancon (France), curated by Julie Arnal,
2014 “Frame Foto Festival” , Salsomaggiore (Italy), curated by Cecilia Pratizzoli
2013 “Besides”, VisionQuesT Gallery, Genova (Italy), curated by Clelia Belgrado.
“L'Ultima Mutazione”:
2012 Galerie Hautefeuille, Parigi (France),
2012 Wave Gallery, Brescia (Italy),
2011Spazio Biffi, Piacenza (Italy), Palazzo Chiabrera,
2010Acqui Terme (Italy),
2007, Festival START - Galleria Joyce&Co, Genova (Italy)
2007 MICAMERA , Milano (Italy).
Group exhibitions:
2021 “ultraromanticismo” Spilamberto, Modena (Italy), curated by Federica Sale and Alessandro Mescoli
2021 “Biennale Olanda Italia, L'Aia Olanda curated by Virginia Monteverde
2021 “Slides” Genova (Italy) Etherea Gallery curated by Virginia Monteverde
2020 ”il respiro dell'arte”, Genova (Italy) Palazzo Ducale curated by Virginia Monteverde
2019 “Territoria – Confini Mobili”, Spazio Negrini,Piacenza (Italy), curated by Sandra Bozzarelli,
2018 “Paris Photofever”, Paris, (France), curated by Luisa Catucci, Luisa Catucci Gallery Berlin,
2018 “Arteam Cup” fondazione Dino Zoli , Forlì (Italy), curated by Livia Savorelli and Matteo Galbiati
2018 “NoPlace 4” , Ex Ceramiche Vaccari Santo Stefano di Magra, (Italy).
2017 “Arteam Cup, Bonelli Lab, Canneto sull'Oglio (Mn) (Italy), curated by Livia Savorelli and Matteo Galbiati
2017 “Layers of art”, Budapest (Hungary), curated by Márta Simonffy, Virginia Monteverde, Viana Conti,
2016 “Arteam Cup”, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria (Italy), curated by Espoarte.
2016” Uno sguardo italiano” Arles Festival Voies Off, curated by Marco Antonetto and Clelia Belgrado,
2016 “Reggio Emilia Fotografia Europea” off “Questa non è la via Emilia”, Reggio Emilia (Italy),
2016 “Je t'aime”, Palazzo Ducale, Genova (Italy), curated by Stefania Giazzi and Virginia Monteverde
2016 “Artefiera”, Bologna (Italy), Vision Quest Contemporary Photography, curated by Clelia Belgrado.
2015 “ Le latitudini dell'arte” , Genova (Italy), palazzo Ducale Biennale Italia-Ungheria, curated by Virginia Monteverde.
Major awards:
2022 Finalist Premio Exibart 2021
2020 Finalist Premio Marchionni 2020, Magma, Villacidro, (Italy)
2019 Winner Premio mostra ArteamCup 2019 (Italy)
2017 Technical award studio Bernè, Arteam Cup
2016 Special prize Espoarte Arteam Cup
2008 Finalist "Art prize laguna 2008" – Venezia (Italy)
2006 Second place Premio Concorso fotografico "Crediamo ai tuoi occhi" Bibbiena (AR) portfolio
2004 Second place Miglior portfolio Italiano "Portfolio 2004" Prato
2004 First prize Concorso fotografico "lettura portfolio" Bibbiena (AR)
2004 First prize Concorso fotografico "Crediamo ai tuoi occhi" Bibbiena (AR) portfolio
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