Toni Traglia

I'm born in Fribourg and I lived in Switzerland until I'm 28 years old. After, I moved in Milano where I worked as graphic designer.
Actually I life and work between Milano and Bergamo, in Canonica d'Adda.

In recent years, photography has occupied a big space in my artistic work.
Particularly, I am carrying out a research which interprets photographic images as if they were pictorial works.




I don't consider myself as a photographer, maybe as a digital artist. I take advantage of photography for my artistic purposes, I like the idea of bending technique to my aspirations. I don't want to be addicted to the instrument, but rather use it to extract a pictorial soul of its own from the technique.


These experiments have started from a prize I got with a shot in the "Fotografare l'Adda" competition, in 2009. I won the first prize with an image that was unusual in that context of naturalistic photos. I was surprised, I didn't expect it.

So wanting to improve that result, I started taking pictures of the Adda again, but it was inevitable that photography would become too strict for me. The reflections of the river made me understand that a photographic shot could look like a painting. It was a revelation: the refle...

Ecole des Beaux Arts de Sion (Switzerland)
Schule für Gestaltung Bern (Switzerland)

1993: exposition of my humouristic illustrations from the book "Humour Graphic", in an homonymous group exhibition in Milan
1997: exposition of my paintings from the series "Colori e Materia", in "Casa del Custode delle Acque" (Vaprio d'Adda, Milan)
1998: exposition of my paintings from the series "Colori e Materia" in the bar "Autharit Rex" (Fara Gera d'Adda, Bergamo)
2009: exposition of my fine art photos in a group exhibition in "Stallazzo" (Paderno d'Adda, Lecco)
2013: exposition of my fine art photos "Riflessi dell'Adda" in a personal exhibition in "Bar e Art Caffè" di Trezzo sull'Adda
2013: exposition of my fine art photos "Riflessi dell'Adda" in a personal exhibition in the library "Hoepli" (Milan)
2014: exposition of my fine art photos from the serie "Riflessi dell'Adda" in a group exhibition in ""Amici di Leonardo Association"" (Vaprio d'Adda, Milano)
2014: exposition of my fine art photos from the serie "Riflessi dell'Adda" in a group exhibition in municipalityof Boltiere (Begamo)
2015: exposition of my fine art photos from the serie "Riflessi dell'Adda" in a group exhibition in ""Amici di Leonardo Association" (Vaprio d'Adda, Milano)
2015: exposition of my fine art photos from the serie "Riflessi dell'Adda" in a...