Attilio Scimone

Attilio Scimone

Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy

About Attilio Scimone

Attilio Scimone began his photographic research in the seventies during his university studies in architecture. These were the years where he was able to further elaborate research related to visual perception, aesthetics of the landscape, and the language of photography. This training enabled him, in later years, to operate in certain specialized areas of photography. During the same years, he initiated various artistic collaborations that influenced his training. At the same time, he dedicated himself to professional work related to still-life, industrial photography, and landscapes. Since 1986, he taught photography and has ties with several public schools and, later on, with the world of vocational training. There are many books published on Sicilian landscape and architecture, but his artistic experience matured in the field of B&W photography. Since 1980, he began diligent photographic research that led him to explore the vast sphere of photographic materials, experimenting particular treatments using chemicals that interact with emulsion gelatin to create images in which the depth of light and darks blend into an ever more precise and controlled union. His images, therefore, began to take on an artistic value where the perfect combination with matter is fundamental. At the end of the eighties, he began a photographic exploration within the same emulsion. The deep blacks of his images are dissipated by the paper medium of the image to create his “grignotage”, and this is the technique that he went on to developed for a decade. Since the year2000, four important encounters marked his relationship with photography and the art world. The first was with the French critic, Jean Claude Lemagny, the second with the editor of “People Photography”, Enzo Mirisola, the third with critic and historian of photograpy Pippo Pappalardo, the fourth with the critic, Diego Gulizia and, finally, his encounter with Antonio Vitale. Thanks to these “partnerships” and “friendships”, he consolidated a somewhat tormented relationship with photography: his “simple photographs” took on a very different flavour. In this decade, he also experimented the artistic possibilities offered by Polaroid transfers, an endeavour that was rudely interrupted in early 2008 when these materials were no longer produced. He has exhibited in important artistic events, and confirmed sector magazines have published his works.

Education:

Architecture, design, photography University of Palermo (Italy)

Events:

10th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Honors Photographer
11th Annual Black and White Spider Awards Honors Photographer

Exhibitions:

2019

- Com-posta – eclettiche corrispondenze d’arte, a cura di Antonio Vitale. Mostra collettiva. Fondazione I.N.D.A. Istituto Nazionale Dramma Antico, Ortigia [Siracusa]

2018

- Scritture d'Artista - Fondazione Sant'Elia - Palermo

2017

- Sculture da Viaggio "Omaggio a Bruno Munari" - Museo Archeologico Regionale - Caltanissetta

- “2days” Al di là del gesto un segno a confronto - Borghetto Europa - Catania

- DiVino Celeste - Garage N.3 Gallery - Venezia

- Echi vibranti - Palazzo Guttadauro Principi di Reburdone - Palazzo Ceramico - Caltagirone (Catania)

- Orizzonti Siciliani Contemporanei - Editoriale Giorgio Mondadori - Arionte Arte Contemporanea Catania

- BRIDGES - Attraversamenti trasversali - Museo Tripisciano - Palazzo “Moncada”, Caltanissetta2016
Still - A.C. “SPAZIOVITALEin”, Catania
L'arma dell'arte contro la vilenza - Sala Caravaggio - Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. - Siracusa
Invisibile - Museo Diocesano d'Arte Contenporanea - Caltanissetta
2015
“SANT’AGOSTINO CONTEMPORANEA” Collezione Permanente d’Arte Contemporanea di “PALAZZO BELLOMO” - Siracusa
Destini Incrociati - A.C. SPAZIOVITALEin - Catania
Punti di Vista Toura - Museo Tripisciano - Palazzo “Moncada”, Caltanissetta
Geni In Mostra - Rassegna D'arte internazionale D'arte Contemporanea, Golfo Aranci - Olbia
Multiverso - A.C. “SPAZIOVITALEin”, Catania

2014
Naufrago - Spazi Espositivi “Sala del Mosaico” - Palazzo Granafei-Nervegna, Brindisi
Fertilità visive - Museo Tripisciano - Palazzo “Moncada”, Caltanissetta
Se il vero prende corpo - Spazi Espositivi del “Palazzo della Provincia Regionale di Siracusa”, Ortigia - Siracusa
Naufrago - Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea “Montevergini”, Ortigia - Siracusa
Sicilia Dives - ALT ART, Museo Tripisciano - Palazzo “Moncada”, Caltanissetta

2013
Sicilia Dives - San Severo al Pendino, Napoli
Paesaggi intimi - “Convento delle Benedettine”, Castello di Milazzo, Messina
“MUDAC” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea - 1a Rassegna Nazionale d’Arte Contemporanea, Floridia - Siracusa
L’ininterrotto punto - A.C. “SPAZIOVITALEin”, Catania
What Women Wont - Galleria “Spazio21”, Comiso - Ragusa
Icone… immagini dal contemporaneo - A.C. “SPAZIOVITALEin”, Catania

2012
Al di qua dell’orizzonte e dentro l’anima - Galleria d’Arte Moderna “Le Ciminiere”, Catania
L’universo e i suoi misteri - “Osservatorio Astronomico e Planetarium”, Montedoro - Caltanissetta
Per una esegesi visiva del messaggio biblico - Cripta della Cattedrale di Caltanissetta
Indagini visive - Galleria Mulini, Gela - Caltanissetta

2008
The Scene - Sicilian Landscape - “Palazzo del Carmine”, Caltanissetta
Alle origini era Trinacria - “Palazzo Mazzullo”, Taormina - Messina
Discontinua - Parata d'arte per una inaugurazione - Nuovo Teatro Comunale - Montedoro

2005
Percorsi Etici - Galleria d’Arte Moderna “Le Ciminiere”, Catania
Libertando - Evento Internazionale di Arte Postale, Galleria “Palazzo del Carmine”, Caltanissetta

2003
VI Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea - Monterosso Calabro - Vibo Valentia
Nuovi codici d’immagini - “Chiostro di San Paolo”, Ferrara
Il colore e la luce - Galleria “Il Secondo Rinascimento”, Bologna
Il colore e la luce - Banca Antonveneta, Bologna

2002
Rassegna Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea - “Castello Estense”, Sale dell’Imbarcadero, Ferrara
Materia e luce - Libreria Dante, Palermo
Contemporanea - VI Salone d’Arte Moderna, Forlì