Artist Statement
"Mauro Fiorese forces us to realize that the ordinary moments of day to day living can be and are truly transcendent if our gaze is properly set and we are open and attuned to miracles. Mauro Fiorese could be called "the unexpected mystic.(...)If one word were used to describe Fiorese's work, the word would have to be compassion. At the core of that understanding is something spiritual. That is one of the things Fiorese's art insists upon us and it forces us to recall and acknowledge"
JOHN WOOD Process Statement
Technical approaches and processes can change with a new project or with a new vision. For several years I've been only working with medium format black and white film and analogical Hasselblad. Today I switched to a new digital Hasselblad that enable me to work pretty much in the same way, supporting me not only with the quality of the final image but also with the quality of my vision. I Think before I shoot. I think before I print. Than... the image is ready.

 

 

Artist and educator, he works as Fine-Art Photographer since more than twenty five years.
His images are published in several books and his essays are collected and published in a text book entitled “Fotografia a sua immagine e somiglianza” (Ibiskos Editore, 2004).
His body of work “corpolibero” (free body) – a long-term photographic inquiry on the world of handicap – was awarded in 1997 with the TOP 100 World Photographers list of the Ernst Haas/Golden Light Award.
He worked as Professor of Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts from 1998 to 2014 in Verona, Italy where he also taught at the University of Verona. He also taught at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign Study Abroad Program and at I.E.D. Istituto Europeo di Design, Milan Italy. He lectured at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas at Santa FePhotographic Workshops, NM and at the International Center of Photography in New York.
He also curated exhibitions and a series of lectures on Masters of Contemporary Photography at the Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri in Verona, Italy.

His photographs are part of private collections and public institutions, such as the Museum of Fine Art in Houston (Tx), Bibliothèque Nationale de France, W. Hunt collection in New York, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia “Scavi Scaligeri” in Verona and Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea in Cinisello Balsamo in Milan, Italy.
His works have been awarded and exhibited since 1996, in the U.S, Japan, Canada and Europe in private Galleries and Public Institutions, Fairs and Festivals, including the last 54th International Venice Art Biennale and the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
In the Year 2015 Mauro was invited in Davos, Switzerland to speak at the World Economic Forum among the forty world Cultural leaders of the Year. Mauro spoke about his project "libra in cancer" a story he wrote and illustrated with his photographs about his recent journey with a stage four lung Cancer that changed his life.

COLLECTIONS
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Tx
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris – France
Dancing Bear/William Hunt collection, New York
Centro Internazionale di fotografia Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, Italy
Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo (Mi), Italy

REPRESENTATIVE GALLERIES
Robert Mann Gallery, New York
Catherine Couturier Gallery, Houston
Fontana Gallery, Amsterdam
Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Dusseldorf
Micamera – Photography and Lens-Based Arts, Milano
Boxart Gallery, Verona

AWARDS and Public ASSIGNMENTS
2015
Codice MIA Award 2015 Winner, Milan-Italy
2011
Medal of representation by President of the Italian Republic Giorgio Napolitano for the exhibition “COLIN Cronos: Quel che resta della memoria” curated by Mauro Fiorese
International Center of Photography Scavi Scaligeri, Verona - Italy
2010
Premio Internazionale Arte Laguna, Venezia, Italy
2008
Backlight 2008 “Tickle Attack” – WOLKERSDORF, Austria
International Photography Awards – New York
Kaunas Photo 2008 – Kaunas, Lituania
2005
International Poetry and Literature award Città di Salò 2005
2004
MINISTRY OF WORK AND SOCIAL POLITICS
Incarico di contributo, in rappresentanza dell’Italia, alla esposizione fotografica per la “Seconda Conferenza Europea dei Ministri responsabili per le politiche di integrazione delle persone portatrici di handicap” del Consiglio d’Europa. Malaga, Spain
1997
“GoIden Light/Ernst Haas Award: The TOP 100 World Photographers list”
Premio Marangoni 1997 for a photographic Project (awarded work: corpolibero)


SELECTED SHOWS Venues

54° ESPOSIZIONE INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE DELLA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA
Groege Eastman House International Museum of Photography & Film, Rochester, NY
International Center of Photography Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, Italy
Fotografie Forum International, Frankfurt, Germany
Palazzo dell’Arengario, Milano
CREM – Club des residents etrangers de Monaco – Montecarlo
MAM-Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Alto Mantovano
Fondazione Mazzotta, Milano Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Firenze
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Palazzo Forti, Verona
Venice art Palace, Otaru, Japan
Festival della Fotografia Savignano immagine, Savignano sul Rubicone
International Photography Awards – New York

Spazio Arte S. Fedele, Milano
Galerie Fontana Fortuna, Amsterdam
John Cleary Gallery, Houston, Tx
Stephen Bulger Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
FNAC Photo Galleries Italy (Milan, Turin, Napoli, Genova,Verona)

Snapper Bear Studios in Noho, New York, NY
A.I.P.A.D. Show, New York
MIA Milan Image Art Fair
ART MONACO - Montecarlo Contemporary Art Fair
Monat der Fotografie, Wien

 

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