Alan Maglio
Italy, b. 1979
Lives and work in Milan, Italy.
Alan Maglio
Italy, b. 1979
Lives and work in Milan, Italy.
Alan Maglio is a lens-based artist who investigates themes concerning the subconscious, memory and the uncanny.
He develops his research through photography and physical manipulation of found images.
Operating surgically by using a scalpel, the artist shapes cuts of vintage prints, usually black and white photographs from old photo agencies.
Destroying the original materials, Maglio uses the resulting patterns in combination with personal shots that often portray interiors or night scenes.
Voyeurism, displacement, fragmentation and ambiguity are common motifs in these cinematic artworks. The isolation of a human figure, the removal of a chair, a jar, a glass from the scenery, in order to move it into a new environment, has the taste of capture, of random appropriation.
Through an open dialogue with “outer” iconographic elements, Maglio’s research focuses on subtle interferences that develop photographic images towards the achievement of a new dimension, often characterized by a sense of restlessness and suspension.
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
Books
2021 – Stop Series – Still Fotografia Ed. (2021)
2021 – OltreCollage – ABC Collage
2020 – Collage Art
2019 – Ultima Edizione – Storie nere dagli archivi de La Notte
2012 – Tokyo – Nubi Ed.
2010 – Stories of Darkness and Light
Films
2021 – Bar Ethiopia, 7 min.
2015 – Asmarina, 69 min.
2007 – Milano Centrale – Stories from the Train Station, 60’ min.