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PERCEPTIVE MOMENTS GIUSEPPE SCIORTINO

G i u s e p p e S c i o r t i n o i s a painter, a sketch artist, a photographer and more.

He was born in Palermo, Sicily and later moved to Forence to further pursue his art career.

Shorty after graduating school in 2011 with Fine Arts, Adriano Bimbi became Giuseppe’s monitor because he recognized his special talent as well as the high quality of his paintings and drawings.

Through his work, Giuseppe expresses himself and his being influenced by a dual power: the ancestral attachment to the world of affect and that of timid discovery of “other”.

Giuseppe

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disegnatore, fotografo ed ancora altro probabilmente, nato a Palermo e trasferitosi a Firenze.

Dopo il diploma alle Belle Arti di Firenze nel 2011, le felici qualità della sua vena artistica rappresentativa ed interpretativa gli aprono le porte dell’atelier dello studio del suo mentore, il pittore Adriano Bimbi.

Attraverso la sua opera , Giuseppe esprime tutto sé stesso e il suo essere influenzato da una duplice energia: quella dell’attaccamento ancestrale al mondo dell’affettività e quello della timida scoperta dell’”altro”.

So, in his paintings these two worlds symbolize d by arch et ypes come together: affections, loves, friends on one hand and from the other geometry, order, the measures that attaches to the rest of him around, as in a affirmation effort of his most solid feelings and a search of approach to new life.

Così, nei suoi quadri si incontrano questi

His paintings, as well as his drawings, seem an emanation of a live universe towards this balance.

I suoi quadri, così come i suoi disegni,

due mondi simboleggiati da archetipi: gli affetti, gli amori, gli amici da una parte e dall’altra le geometrie, l’ordine, le misure che attribuisce al resto di cui si circonda, come in uno sforzo di affermazione dei suoi sentimenti più solidi e di ricerca di approccio alla vita nuova.

paiono un’emanazione di un universo in tensione verso questo equilibrio.

G I OVA N N I ROSSI ELLO Gallery Exhibition and Curating EL Instructor Florence University of the Arts

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Works by Giuseppe Sciortino will be on display at Ganzo on

Il 9 Novembre alle ore 18 al Ganzo di via de’ Macci 85r,

November 9. The art for this new exhibition has been hand

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selected by the students enrolled in the Gallery Exhibition and

Sciortino, il giovanissimo pittore che vive tra Firenze e

Curating Experiential Learning course held at the Florence

Palermo e che porterà nello spazio del Ganzo una bella

University of the Arts.

collezione di opere, tra pittura e disegni.

Giuseppe Sciortino is a young artist originally from Palermo,

La particolarità dell’artista, che debutta con la sua prima

Sicily, but now lives in Florence. He studied under Adriano Bimbi at the Accademia di Belle Arti, where he graduated in 2011. Since his graduation, he has shown his work yearly, in a collective exhibition with colleagues.

The work that was selected for this exhibition are oil paintings

mostra monografica – finora ha partecipato soltanto a mostre collettive -, è l’interesse per i ritratti e per gli oggetti ordinari che tutti noi usiamo nella nostra vita, senza farci troppo caso, che lui semplifica ancor di più

and graphite drawings that he has recently been working on.

trasformandoli in immagini a metà strada tra l’astratto

They are quiet moments from his everyday life. These works

e il realistico.

depict friends, commonly used objects, and overlooked corners.

Per fare questo usa con grande frequenza la fotografia,

His style is a combination of realism and abstraction. The

“per documentare sia l’ordine che la complessità di ciò

subject is depicted realistically, whereas the the tile flooring

che ho davanti agli occhi”, come egli stesso sostiene,

pattern is often invented. Geometry interests him because of

“per poi usare la pittura per creare, con quella stessa

his attention to detail. He creates his meticulous paintings by

immagine, il mio, di ordine”.

starting the underpainting by referencing photographs that he

Giuseppe, ventottenne che dipinge e disegna dall’età

has taken. During this stage, he focuses on the composition

di17 anni, ha imparato quello che è diventato presto il suo

and the colour palette. He then adds on succeeding layers and intricate details.

In addition to painting and drawing, he is also a photographer.

With painting, he is able to “create his own order”, whereas in photography, he likes to capture the order of nature. In nature’s

“mestiere” da Adriano Bimbi, a Firenze, frequentando l’Accademia delle Belle Arti, ed ha uno stile che segue molto la geometria degli oggetti, la prima caratteristica che ne cattura l’attenzione, e nell’esecuzione spesso

landscapes, he feels that there is too much information to

varia tra penna, matita e pittura a olio.

record by hand, so he photographs it. Painting allows him

Le opere sono state selezionate dagli studenti della

room for invention that photography lacks. His alteration of

Florence University of the Arts (FUA) per lo spazio di Ganzo,

details such as the flooring is his way of creating his own order.

ristorante e laboratorio didattico della stessa università.

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GIOVANNI ROSSIELLO Gallery and Exhibition Curating EL Instructor Florence University of the Arts

GIULIO VINCI Academic Coordinator DIVA & IDEAS Florence University of the Arts

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