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