Paolo Staccioli

Paolo Staccioli was born in Rome, Italy, and has been living in Amsterdam for the past 15 years. Before finding his way as a fine art photographer, Staccioli has gone through various paths and done many things, including working as a model in the Berlin underground scene. He’s finally settled in the Netherlands and works in his studio in the centre of Amsterdam.

“I like to play with my world and, like throwing dice on a table gives unpredictable results, so I throw lights at ordinary objects to give rise to new and unpredictable configurations of forms and colours” says Paolo Staccioli when talking about his creations.

Most of his photography sits at the crossroad between abstract painting and reproduction of real objects. His ‘Light Paintings’ series capture the aesthetic qualities and the magical power of natural and RGB light, shadow and reflection to create unusual and surprising shapes, moods and atmospheres.

Staccioli never reworks his photos with Photoshop. His works are the result of hours of empyrical experimentation in the isolation of the artist’s studio, like ancient alchemist and philosophers used to experiment with optics and optical instruments in their discovery of modern science.

Paolo Staccioli is a self-taught artist. Creativity and fantasy are borne in him and part of his character. He’s never short of inspiration as his passion for the found object, colour, light, and materials drives him to create new and unexpected artistic objects. Staccioli is truly a new talent. After an initial experimentation phase in which he created arts with recycled materials, in 2015 he started to focus on fine art photography and developed his style during 2016. Staccioli began to offer his works via online Art platforms at the end of 2016. Since April 2017 he participates in the Rembrandt Art Market in Amsterdam.

Works of Paolo Staccioli will feature in the 2018 edition of New Dutch Talent (issue, November 2018)

Painted Lights, Solo Exhibition
Castle of Carini - Carini, Palermo, Italy
18 July - 16 August 2020

New Dutch Photo Talent Exhibition
5&33 Gallery - Amsterdam
24 November 2017 - 10 January 2018

Metal-Glass-Water-Plastic, go on show! at PRIMI – bar & cucina in Amsterdam, September - December 2017