Ahural Azay

Art name Pseudonyme : AhuralAzay

Ahural was born in 1957 in Rome and might be considered a native of Planet Earth.

After studying Painting and Drawing at the Academy of Fine Art in Rome, Italy, he attended afellowship Painting Course, at Voss School of Art, Voss, Norway andhe moved to Norway, where he gota BA in Photography and Multimedia Arts at KunstAkademy Fine Art Academy in Bergen, Norway. In Norway he started his experimenting and researches in Fine Art Photography at the KunstAkademie, exhibiting at the Museum Bryggen (Bergen) his multi-image presentation "Fragmenter av tanke" , a multi media audio visual combining images,-poems-with electronic music.
In 1985 he left returning to Italy to continue his Studies in theProfessional Institute of Movies and Photography in Rome.

His first solo exhibition in Rome, in 1982, “To the wind, to the fire, to the rain” was presented by the Italian Historian of Art Giulio Carlo Argan (1909-1992).
In his artistic life he has been working at several art projects concerning the interaction between different artistic languages : Photography, Video, Installations, Performances, Music, Dance, cooperating with Musicians ( the Maestro Composer Domenico Guaccero (1927-1984) and the El...

EXHIBITIONS

ART GALLERY “ VALLE GIULIA” , ROME, ITALY , 1982
GARDENS OF VILLA TORLONIA, ROME, 1982
GALLERIA “LA BITTA” , ROME, 1983
“MUSEUM BRYGGEN” , BERGEN , NORWAY 1984
ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE , OSLO, NORWAY, 1984
SALON INTERNATIONAL D’OEUVRES SUR PAPIER , NANTES, FRANCE , 1992
GALLERY YVES FAY, PARIS, FRANCE , 1993
EGLISE DECONSACRE’ SAINT PIERRE , MELLE , DEUX-SEVRES, FRANCE, 1993
SALON EUROPEEN D’ART CONTEMPORAIN , ST. BRISSON SUR LOIRE, FRANCE, 1993
SALON D’EXPOSITION DU CREDIT LYONNAIS, PARIS, FRANCE, 1993
CENTER OF ITALIAN CULTURE, PARIS, 1994
GALERIE DES JOUERIES, ST GERMAIN EN LAYE, FRANCE , 1994
EXPLORER GALLERY , ROME, ITALY, 1995
GALLERIA COLONNA , ROME, 1996
LE MOIS DE LA PHOTO , BIENNAL, PARIS, FRANCE, 1996
GALLERY ON-OFF , VITERBO, ITALY, 1998
MONTREAUX FOIRE INTERNATIONAL , SWITZERLAND, 2007
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY , ROME, 2008
FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAFICO ITALIANO, BUSTO ARSIZIO , VARESE , 2009
GALERIE CCLO, STRAUSBERG( BERLIN), GERMANY , 2010
EX AULA CONSILIARE , CERVETERI (ROME) , ITALY , 2014