Nationality Italian Name Giuseppe Schiavo | Role Visual Artist | |
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Born 1986 (age 28–29) Pizzo Calabro | ||
Known for Photography, Visual arts | ||
Beyond reality beyond photography giuseppe lo schiavo
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo (born 3 September 1986) is an Italian-born visual artist based in London. His works blend modern computer graphic with photography, seeking to disconnect the photographic medium from reality.
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Biography
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo was born in Pizzo Calabro in Italy on 3 September 1986. He has studied Architecture at the Sapienza University of Rome and he is specialized in Architectural 3D Visualization.
In his Solo Exhibition in Turin, Beyond Reality - Beyond Photography, on September 2014 the artist presented for the first time a series of Photographs printed on real banknotes such as Dollars, Sterling and Euro.
He is known internationally for his series Levitation, created in 2011, a series of photographs inspired by Le Château des Pyrénées of Renè Magritte
He currently lives and works between Rome and London.
Awards and exhibitions
In June 2015, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo was one of the youngest artists of the group exhibition Il blu nell'arte, da Yves Klein a Jan Fabre. presented at MACA museum in Acri, Cosenza where is work "narcissus" was exhibited together with artists such as Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Jan Fabre, Victor Vasarely, Mimmo Rotella, Mimmo Rotella, Raymond Hains, curated by Francesco Poli
On April 2014 Lo Schiavo's gif 'Anamorphic Triangle' was presented at Saatchi Gallery in occasion of the Saatchi Gallery and Google Plus Motion Photography Prize
Lo Schiavo's works were selected for the Portrait Salon 2013 that was presented in the UK and was featured on the BBC.
On November 2013 he won the jury award on the Bonato Minella Awards in Turin , Italy. The award was conferred to Lo Schiavo by Vittorio Sgarbi.
The works of Lo Schiavo have been featured in international magazine, radio and presented in various exhibitions of museums and art galleries in all over the world such as Saatchi Gallery in London, Aperture Foundation in New York, Museo Arte Contemporanea Acri in Cosenza, in Istanbul and in other galleries in Rome, Turin and Munich.
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo is an Adobe Certified Expert for Adobe Photoshop