"In the water #15" Photograph - Limited Edition of 7

Furio Torracchi is a Munich-based Italian artist whose practice centres on the transformation of the photographic image. Trained in Fine and Applied Art at London Guildhall University, he has spent over two decades developing a body of work in which photography is never the endpoint — but the starting point.
Rather than treating the photograph as document or record, Torracchi subjects it to digital manipulation, painterly intervention, and formal fragmentation. Figures dissolve into colour and movement. Seascapes resist topography in favour of feeling. Domestic scenes become half-familiar, half-abstract. What remains is closer to emotional residue than information — images that work on the viewer the way memory does: through impression, atmosphere, and selective disappearance.
His major photographic series — including the beach and seascape work, Private Sphere, and What Remains of Our Memories — share a consistent conceptual thread: the boundary between presence and dissolution, between a person and the light that surrounds them.
His work has been exhibited internationally at venues including Miami Art Week (Red Dot), dfn Gallery New York, Eunoia Gallery San Francisco, Lemon Frame Gallery Tel Aviv, and Museum Wasserburg, and has received awards from PX3 Paris, TIFA Tokyo, IPA, and MIFA. It has been reviewed in the Süddeutsche Zeitung and The Independent (London), and is held in private collections across Europe, North America, South America, and the Middle East.