EMPTY- V
EMILIANO SCATARZI
My inspiration comes from images on the television, a window open to the world (is this real?), an instrument which everyone possess, listens to and is hypnotized by, the empty messages which cannot be assimilated as concepts, which circulate in the human mind, disturbing it, like a thought which does not find its full expression, like food without back taste that does not satiate one’s hunger.
Through my work, I instill a doubt, not a real ‘conspiracy theory’; I hope to provoke us to think about the extent to which we use our minds to assimilate what is presented to us as real, but is only the reflection of biased or totalitarian information, to the point that we do not identify with its deviated traits.
Everyone of us, out of the exhibition, start observing which and how many cameras are pointed at us to spy and control us, to later dictate how we are to behave through television, the ‘Big Eye’, the ‘Confessor’, the ‘Big Brother’, controlled as we are by the ‘Benefactor’ and through the help of the ‘Integral’, we are filtered and disinfected so to be ready to be part of the ‘only state’, like numbers deprived of their mathematical meaning.
Emiliano Szcatarzi
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Emiliano Scatarzi
Born in Florence Italy in 1973, there he began his career in photography in 1994. After moving his residence to Milan Italy in 1998, he founded the photographic agency Andreaemiliano which focused on advertising campaigns for companies such as Swatch, Fiat Auto, BMW, Conde’ Nast and Killer Loop, in addition to a number of editorials for magazines such as Max, Glamour, GQ and Carnet.
In 2001, Emiliano with two other colleagues, founded the nonprofit organization of Fotografi Senza Frontiere Onlus (Photographers Without Borders Org.), which occupies a visual anthropology and builds, equips and opens permanent photographic laboratories for people with less opportunity in Third World Countries. To date there are fully operational laboratories, in the Middle East, Central America and Africa.
Emiliano’s artistic work has been exhibited throughout Italy, at the Venice Biennale, Franco Riccardo Arti Visive in Naples and Ken’s Art Gallery in Florence, to mention a few.
Emiliano has been exposed at the following galleries
in Italy over the last 11 years
One Person Shows
Ken's Art Gallery Firenze, Italy in 2001
H Milano, Italy in 2001
La Pescheria, Naples, Italy (Old Historical Fish Market)in 2005
Two Person Shows
La Segheria Milano in 2003
Fabbrica Eos Milano in 2006
Spazio Forma in 2006
Sthensen institute Firenze in 2006
Collective Shows
Ken's Art Gallery Firenze in 1996
Arte Fiera Bologna, Italy with Ken's Art Gallery in Firenze in 1997
Ken's Art Gallery Firenze in 1998
Ken's Art Gallery Firenze in 1999
Biennale of Art Venice in 2001
Ken's Art Gallery Firenze in 2002
Franco Riccardo Arti Visive Napoli in 2004
Hyunnart Studio-Merzbau Roma in 2004
Ken's Art Gallery Firenze in 2005
Chiostro del Bramante Roma in 2005
