La morte di un’immagine #7, C-print on aluminium dibond, 112 x 140 cm, © 2006
Andrea Galvani was born in Verona in 1973. He lives and works in Milan and has distinguished himself in the last few years as an artist who pushes the boundaries of the photographic medium. He is fascinated by science and it’s models of representation. As well as in the multiplicity of languages, signs, and in their relationship in history; in tables and graphics as synthesis of philosophical, political, and economic concepts. Andrea has a predilection for the photographic medium but avails often to other mediums, most of all video, drawing and wall painting. He’s considered one of the Italy’s most promising young artists.
He has participated in numerous important exhibitions in Italy and abroad, such as Babylon, BAC! Barcelona International Contemporary Art Festival, (CCCB), ES, 2007; Andrea Galvani 2003-2006, curated by Andrea Bruciati, GC.AC Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Gorizia, IT; Decostruzione di una montagna e la morte di un’immagine curated by Marinella Paderni, Artopia, Milano, IT 2006. Since 2006, he’s been a professor of Photographic Language and History of Contemporary Photography at the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo.
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Andrea’s residency at Location One is supported by Associazione Artegiovane, Fondi Anima and the Comune di Milano
