Giuseppe Cocco

Roma, Italia, Italy

About Giuseppe Cocco

I was born in 1957, in Rome, where I grew up and I live. Master Documentary photographer since 1977, visual digital artist, with my artworks I tell the story of the minor Italy with a capital M, a large diffused emotional garden; Italy, with particular attention to the South: My artistic career began in the seventies, with my preparation in painting and architecture, during which I was accused of being too contemplative, because it was believed that art should be an abstraction. Attracted by photgraphy, for forty years I have made contemplative photographs of architecture, landscapes and territories. Then came the digital technological revolution, the computer, the internet, with which I was able to realize the expressive synthesis of all my artistic experiences, photography and painting. I returned to the art of watercolor, but starting from my photographs and using software and computers. NOT FAMOUS NOT RICH, BUT ONLY USEFUL AND HAPPY, I would like my art to be a beauty ambassador and improve life, becoming popular in the sense that it could spread among the people. Philosopher, creative; ascetic, meditative, contemplative, visionary, slow, calm and patient by birth and by choice, slow live journey (60 meters per minute, Google survey). I work slowly, I practice meditative and creative idleness, aesthetic esthetic pauses; 5 senses + 3 mind heart spirit, I observe, contemplate, meditate, abandoning the noise of words, narrating with narrative and evocative force of synesthetic images. I look for beauty to communicate emotions, with the hope that my gaze can stimulate a new awareness and visual perception, helping to improve "the aesthetics and ethics of everyday life" and, therefore, the quality of life, for a better world . In my travels, near and far, the camera always with me, in my pocket, to take notes when there is something that strikes and excites me. Then, back home, when I turn to the computer, I turn the photographs into watercolors. I move only by train, bus and on foot, with a pipe, a Tuscan cigar, cameras around my neck, online computers, interpreting and narrating atmospheres, emotions, thoughts and suggestions, promoting and enhancing the beauty of Italy. My project, ethical and aesthetic, shows what others do not see, as a proposal to improve awareness, perception, the aesthetics of everyday life, the world. Borzone de Signorio Sabelli, I come from a family where I have illustrious ancestors including, in addition to 5 Popes and 11 Cardinals, the painters Luciano Borzone (Genoa 1590-1645) and sons and students Giovanni Battista Borzone, Carlo Borzone and Giovanni Francesco Maria Borzone (Genoa 1625-1679), painter and astronomer called in France in 1656 to fresco the castle of Vincennes (Lagrange); The uncle artist, painter, Luigi Ottavio Borzone de Signorio Sabelli. Cousin of the paternal grandmother of Catanzaro, Mimmo Rotella. Naturally my artistic cultural baggage is full of Italian art, and not only. They inspire me: the Italian Vedutists: Giovanni Segantini, Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto), Giovanni Boldini, Bernardo Bellotto, Francesco Guardi; the Macchiaioli: Silvestro Lega, Giovanni Fattori, Telemaco Signorini; The Impressionists: Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne; the watercolors Ettore Roesler Franz, William Turner, the same Johann Wolfgang Goethe and the more recent Aldo Riso; and again: Giorgio Morandi, Amedeo Modigliani, Vasilij Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Edward Hopper, Jan Vermeer. ; for Albrecht Durer, Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Among the photographers, certainly of architecture and landscape, some of which are contemporary colleagues and "competitors", Gabriele Basilico, Mimmo Jodice and Luigi Ghirri; while for the rural and anthropological photography, the friend Mario Cresci.

Education:

Lecturer visiting lecturer of theory, technology, analogue / digital and history of photography at the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and Aleppo.

Exhibitions:

9/10 June 2012
shows RomaINCerealia at the Farmers Market Coldiretti in Rome

2/12 May 2012
Participation in the exhibition "Photographically" at the gallery La Pigna Rome

June 11, 2011
I participate as Penisolabella and as a photographer Brunch Cerealia with an exhibition entitled "The wheat declined in all latitudes and cultures" at Terminal Gianicolo Rome

October 21, 2010
I participate in the exhibition that I conceived, entitled "Identity" at the showroom space Maecenas of Rome

June 14, 2008
Staff "Places - Host: remnants of waterfront" organized in collaboration with the Cultural Association "Anco Marzio" of Ostia Lido during the final evening of the International Prize "City of Ostia", at the Hotel Satellite Palace

27-28-29 April 2007
Collective "The Eyes of the soul" organized in collaboration with the Association "Culture Without Borders" at the Vittoriano - Rome

1-4 December 2007
"Barbarano in Memory" organized by the municipality of Barbarano Romano (VT)

9-19 April 2006
"Tarquinia, fantastic visions of a city suspended between Past and Present" Staff at Palazzo Bruschi headquarters of "La Lestra". Organized in collaboration with the Cultural and Artistic Association "La Lestra", the Agricultural University of Tarquinia and the University of Fine Arts in Rome.

23-12 - 2004 / 2-1 - 2005
Collective of Artists of the Free Academy of Fine Arts in Rome with pictures on the Territory of Tarquinia - Oratorio di S. Pancrazio - Tarquinia

12.22.2003 / 06.01.2004
Independent is the Culture of the City of Subiaco and Rev.mo Abbot of the Abbey of St. Scholastica and the Sacro Speco Benedictine organize and cure Photo exhibition on "The Benedictine monasteries in Europe" in the Rocca Abbey

May 2001
Collective on the Theme of the Horse at the Castello di Bassano Romano (RM)

16/24 May 1980
Personal Entitled "Images of the Via Tiburtina Valeria from Rome to Pescara" the National Headquarters of the CTS in Rome

May 26, 1979
Staff at the Cultural Center "The Tomorrow" in the gallery of the Great Bear at Lido di Roma

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