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Born in Varese – Italy in 1979, lives and works in Milan. After graduation in Industrial Design at the University of Bozen, starts his personal research about anthropological analysis of contemporary social groups and their cultural artifacts through video and photo media.
Collaboration in personal projects
• Decolonizing Architecture (A. Petti, S. Hilal and E. Weizmann, 2007);
Collaboration in committed art works
• Nuclear Voyage (A. Linke, 2007) (committed by SOGIN Spa);
• Centenary of Mondadori ed. video installation in Vittorio Emanuele Galleria, Milan, Italy (A. Linke, 2007).
Commissions
• 2009: industrial photo project for Prysmian Cables Spa
• 2008: photo for the book “Ciglia”, an art work of the Italian artist Vincenzo Cabiati
• Since 2008: photographer for the Mondadori Interior Design Magazine “Grazia Casa”
• 2007-2008: photographer for the RCS Group (Redazione Corriere della Sera), “IO Donna” an Interior and life style magazine
Publications
• Island+ghettos, Hidelberger Kunstverein (2008), book about the project Decolonizing Architecture
• La scelta della fotografia (2008), International prize of Lombardy bank and Contrasto with the Startrucks project
• Velvet (April 2009, n.29) article about Sturtrucks project
• Work Art in progress (winter 2007/2008), publication of the Startrucks project
• Ottagono Design Architettura Idee (July- August 2008 n. 212), Ottagonale section, publication of the Startrucks project
• Lightworks, Designing lights (2007), publication of the Startrucks project
• No Tears web magazine (2008), publication of the Startrucks project
Grant/Awards
2009
• Winner of the DE.MO Movin’up Art Residency Program (Italy), at the Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center (irp), Istanbul, Turkey
• Selected Artist for the project “Un ponte sul Mediterraneo”. Young art, Video.it, Startrucks. Turin, Italy
• Finalist at the Riccardo’s Pezza Prize, Contemporary Museum for photography, Cinisello Balsamo, Italy
2008
• Special mention for the International prize Lombardy Bank and Contrasto, Milan, Italy
• Selected artist for the project “Radar”, Civic gallery of Trento, Italy
EXPOSITIONS
Collective expositions
2009
Decolonizing Architecture
• Barcelona COAC, Barcelona, Spain
• The Israeli for digital Art, Holon, Israel
• NGBK – Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
• Gemak, Den Haag, Netherlands
• Bozar, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium
• Biennale Architettura 11. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Venezia, Italy
2008
Interno Italiano
Galassia Reti, Milano, Italy
Radar – Indagine biennale sulla giovane arte in Trentino
• Museo Civico di Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy
• Galleria Civica di Trento, Trento, Italy
Decolonizing Architecture
• Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Solo expositions
2009
Startrucks
Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano Italy