CIRCLE-24 member: OCCHIOMAGICO - Italy

CIRCLE-24 about .. OCCHIOMAGICO

OCCHIOMAGICO - Italy
(1949 Milan, Italy)

 
"The Human Condition
The man, alone, in front of the universe tries to win the fear.
He is assailed with anxiety every time a star falls.
The man, with other men, tries to keep peace and is assailed with war."

 

1971    Opening of the Occhiomagico Studio
1972-78    Expressive research through the elimination of the traditional visual codes a    and criteria of the photographic medium.
In 1978 held first exhibition at the Diaframma Gallery, Milan: “La porta di Niepce”, one monolitho in crystal. 
1979-84    Birth of the Post and Neo-Modern movements in Italy.  Occhiomagico takes part theoretically and practically in multi-media groups, working with studio Alchimia and with architects as A Rossi, A Mendini and Ettore Sottsass jr.  
24 cover photographs made for ‘Domus’ magazine.
Seminar held in Venice, about the contamination which photography has to undergo to become “new photography”.
Artistic management of the pop group ‘Matia Bazar’, experimented with new trends, bringing photography together with painting, music, video and fashion.
1985-88    Several exhibitions in Europe on the theme of utopical environments, using three-dimensional settings;  photographs, design objects, works
of art and ‘three-dimensional music’.
1989    Working on the intimacy of man.





http://www.galeriemaurer.de/artist/occhiomagico/

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