Giuseppe Verga

Giuseppe Verga was born in 1973 in Mola
di Bari. He graduated at the School of Fine
Arts in Urbino. At the moment he lives and
works in Milan - Italy.

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In my opinion, in contemporary society most of communication is based on images. We are
constantly besieged by images coming from monitors, posters, televisions, the Internet, etc. This
huge number of images does not get lost when the eyes stop watching but piles up in layers and
places itself in the infinite archive of human memory.
I like to think about it as an uncontrolled continuous upload and compression of images by the
mind, a process which removes all the redundant data to create synthetic images and save
space. Any photo I find attractive is temporarily put aside waiting to be retrieved afterwards,
like a file in a computer. In this archive of the memory, family snapshots, child memories, often
full of religious references, and the atmosphere of my childhood and adolescent environments
meet haphazardly.
All things pass through the realm of image as a language experience. The new generation and
I cannot but face this kind of experience. It is exactly through it, its implicit associa...

Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino - Italy
Istituto Statale d'Arte di Monopoli (BA) - Italy

Solo exhibitions

2004
Vexed, video installation on the occasion
of «Chiese Aperte» – VIII edizione,
by Archeoclub Italia – Triggiano, Cappella
dell’Immacolata, Monastero dei
Cappuccini, Triggiano (Ba)

2001
Steal-Stole-Stolen (still steal), by Antonella
Marino, Galleria Le Pleiadi Arte
Contemporanea, Mola di Bari (Ba)
1998 Galleria Dino Del Vecchio Arte Contemporanea,
Monopoli (Ba)
Joint exhibitions

2006
Idee, spazio aperto alla creatività
contemporanea, by Giorgio Correggiari,
Ex Monastero di Santa Scolastica,Bari

Zerozero, by Antonella Marino, Centro
Culturale Zerouno, Barletta

2005
Olio su tela, paintings and installations
by Mimmo Conenna and
Olivood, a video installation by Giuseppe
Verga, by Galleria Le Pleiadi
Arte Contemporanea, critical writing
by Antonella Marino, during
«Strade e Olio», an event promoted
by the Assessorato all’Ambiente e
all’Agricoltura, Municipality of Mola
di Bari, Palazzo Roberti, Mola di
Bari (Ba)

Di un solo mare di tanti mari, by Lia
De Venere, promoted by the Istituto
Italiano di Cultura, sponsored by Regione
Puglia, DGB Haus, Stuttgart
(Germany)

Artisti per NIKI, self-portraits of
Apulian artists for Niki Vendola, the
current President of Regi...