Photography, design, contemporary art, cinema, books, music (all genres), video art...
Anyone!
But I'm curious to meet someone to share something with, maybe perhaps a female figure one ;-)
MyBlog in ITALIAN A BIOGRAPHY
1.1.1 Early years
D.G. was born in Bologna in 1969. Albeit being considered an emotive and distracted amateur of the arts, he ends up by studying electronic engineering in his hometown.
D.G. starts taking pictures when only a boy, after having stolen his father’s camera. After a few weeks he wins the first prize at a local photo challenge with portraits of children. He is so enthusiast about photography that, after a few years of self learning, he starts to successfully shoot for commissioned services, and, in the meanwhile, he also studies studio lighting with the photographer Giuseppe Vergoni. In 1995, after a civil service in a drug addicts’ community, he starts a career in the Information Technology field.
1.1.2 Main achievements
D.G. starts to seriously shoot for his creative Self, only at the very end of year 1996, always travelling with a camera down his neck, and he works with several web and creative agencies that were at that time pushed by the final pushes of the “new economy†bubble which was touching Europe right then. The following year he starts to be requested as portrait, artists and stage photographer for theaters and concerts. In 1999 he first knows and then works with famous Nigian Garengo Berdin, and then with the American master Jon Gadhmoon, who definitively pushes him towards using photography as a self determination and expression tool. Another exhibition, a personal show in his Bologna (1999), and the first art photograph is sold, and the first commercial contacts are definitively established.
In 2001, with the baseterra group, he plays a part in the “Moving People†project, contributing by directing the photography section with his shots “beyond the stillsâ€, collaborating with artists and video makers known internationally.
In the same time activities as a professional photographer drive him through the fitting rooms and stages of international theatres and music halls, and his photographs arrive on pages and covers of many international newspapers and magazines (World Music Magazine, Corriere, Repubblica, Cusine Kingdom, JMag, Manifesto, Resto del Carlino, Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, Unità , Traditional Arranged, …), as well as inside CD leaflets or attached on the walls of southern European towns.
1.1.3 Our time
2006 is when D.G. finally opts for developing his photography as a personal project. He starts by sorting out the anxieties and taboos of contemporary society through a series of projects which are still in the pre-production phase: “Warped spacesâ€, representing the psychological and spatial perturbation deriving from agoraphobia, and “Life in a Boxâ€, irreverent picture of social conditioning, both scheduled for 2007. He might have understood that art is always a therapy. Not only for yourself, not only for himself, but for us all.
1.1.4 Expositions
1 – Il Carnevale - 1985
2 – Ritratti - 1991
3 – Buskers - 1992.
4 – AroundTheWorld - 1996.
5 – bluestreet_999 - 1999.
6 – moving_people: beyond the stills - 2002.
BUT...
I am not an artist, I am trick and candor,
I am a fake, a saint, a groom with no child.
I am breath and colors, a bunch of flowers and guns,
I am contorted, distorted, a heart shorted.
I live and gaze upside down, dissolute and dissolved.
I am your happiness that you first gave and soon stole away.
I am a shot in your head, an uppercut to your face,
I am a tainted poison from a thousand snakes.
I am flesh and brain, hot blood and sweat,
but I am what I am without need of any uncertainty.
I am a digital devil, and write black on white,
I picture God and each time rewrite my sincere soul.
I tell of bleak love, of evil and good,
of the darkness in my heart and of red sores.
In between sky and earth, heaven and war,
my destiny will divide, and who will ever remember
my face, my views and my name.
I am not an artist, that's logical.
I ignore everyone in silence and fade away.
A little bit of all genres... from middle age music to deep techno house, passing through Pink Floyd and Rolling Stones ;-)
Mostly French and Danish productions, all Stanley Kubrick's filmography, Wim Wenders, Woody Allen, Roman Polanski, Godard, Truffaut, Jim Jarmusch, Ken Loach, Kieslowsky...
Don't have a TV set :-)
Marquez, Kafka, Calvino, Gacia Lorca, Neruda, Suskind, Allende, Mc Ewan, Wilde, Capote, Poe, Salinger, Benni, ...
Gandhi