Gagosian Gallery, London - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Photograph

Anton Giulio Onofri was born in Rome on the penultimate day of 1959. Writer and director, for Rai and Mediaset, of various televised cultural broadcasts in the '90s (A tutto volume, L'Angelo, Le Notti dell'Angelo, Onda anomala, Cenerentola), with the start of the new century he decided to dump the fleeting world of show schedules and independently make videos and documentary films about music, art and literature, which would not spoil once broadcast: a film about the Palio di Siena (Visioni di Palio), a film about the Roman symphonic poems by Ottorino Respighi with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia (The Sound of Rome), and a film on the greatest conductor of all times (Franco Ferrara, il Maestro caduto dal podio). He is the author of a novel, Lo Splendore e la scimmia (2013) and a collection of short stories, La prima estate e altri racconti (2019). From 2013 to 2019 he presented the programme 'La Classica Domanda' on Sky's Classica HD channel. He works with the magazines Close-Up and Artslife, for which he writes about cinema, music and miscellaneous current events. During Manifesta 12 he exhibited a series of photographs, In ascolto (Magneti Cowork, Parlermo, 2018). In 2019 he took part, with his photographs, in the exhibition Ritratto di famiglia (Roma, Galleria Nazionale). In 2020 he created for Galleria Nazionale Roma città chiusa, a photographic account of Rome deserted during the Covid-19 quarantine. The architecture magazine Panteon entrusted him with the entire photographic apparatus of the issue dedicated to the depiction of Roman places in Pasolini's books and movies. In December, he opened the exhibition Non mi troverai at the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome, a photographic project about his friendship with the artist Gian Maria Tosatti. In February 2023, the exhibition is on display at the Fondazione Mudima in Milan.