ALAN MAGLIO (Milan, 1979) is a lens based artist who investigates the themes of memory and the uncanny. He develops his research through photography, collage and cinema. He often experiments different types of media including archived materials and vernacular images. He is the author of the movies “Milano Centrale – Stories from the Train Station” (2007) and “Asmarina” (2015) and the book “Ultima Edizione – Storie Nere dagli archivi de La Notte” (2019). His work has been shown in exhibitions and festivals in Italy and abroad.
Biography
main Solo exhibitions
2019 – Stanze – Palazzo Tagliaferro – Andora (Savona)
2019 – Conversazioni di luce – (site specific installation) – Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan
2016 – Scatti #1 – Marsèll Paradise, Milan
2015 – Linea Rossa (two-authors show with con Fabio Giampietro) – Spazio Testoni, Bologna
2011 – Fear of the Dark (two-authors show with con Guus Helms) – Laundry, Milan
2010 – Stories of Darkness and Light – Casa delle Culture del Mondo, Milan
2004 – Moving Identities (two-authors show with con Gabriele Pesci) – Galleria Placentia Arte, Piacenza
main Collective exhibitions
2020 – Still Group Show / Still Fotografia, Milan
2019 – Buste Dipinte – Festival delle Lettere / Teatro Sociale, Bergamo
2019 – Human Places – Spazio Testoni, Bologna
2015 – Eritrea/Etiopia – Mudec / Museo delle Culture, Milan
2015 – Festival di Internazionale – Ferrara
2015 – Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina, 25th edition – Milan
2011 – Artista invita Artista – Centre d’Art Villa Eugenia, Valencia
2011 – Docucity, 2nd edition – Milan
2011 – Ospite Inatteso – Tamango Films, Buenos Aires
2010 – Corpi Migranti – Museo Africano, Verona
2010 – Frammenti Sociali – Triennale, Milan
2007 – El Ojo Cojo / Festival International de Cine – Madrid
2007 – Festival del Cinema Africano, d’Asia e America Latina, 17th edition – Milan
2005 – Foto&Photo – Cesano Moderno
2005 – No Parachute, 5th edition – Artandgallery, Milan
2004 – Going Public 04 (with Zapruder group) – Modena
2003 – Premio Riccardo Pezza, 9th edizione – Triennale, Milan