Luigi M. Verde
La imagen es un hilo de humo que se eleva en el aire y cambia de forma a cada momento. No sigue sólo una lógica o una regla sino también un capricho que siempre sigue siendo un misterio insondable.
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Abstract Compositions • 8 obras de arte
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My artistic practice consciously moves in an area of undecidability, inhabiting that liminal space [...]
My artistic practice consciously moves in an area of undecidability, inhabiting that liminal space where photography, drawing, painting and writing converge in an uninterrupted dialogue. I do not consider this hybrid approach as a simple sum of techniques, but as the affirmation of a poetics that recognizes its generative core in the tension between different languages. Although my works present manual interventions, geometric signs and material stratifications, I consider them fundamentally post-photographs as they maintain a profound connection with the indexical nature of the photographic medium. This media ambiguity is not indecision, but an active semantic strategy.
I am particularly interested in what Jacques Rancière defines as a thoughtful image, an entity that does not simply illustrate a pre-existing thought, but constitutes a magnetic field charged with unresolved tensions, resistant to univocal meanings. The work thus becomes a space of perpetual oscillation between apparently opposite polarities: technological automatism and manual gesture, documentation and creation, material presence and conceptual abstraction.
My creative process reflects this threshold condition: photographic elements are deconstructed and recontextualized, but never completely denied; pictorial interventions assert their materiality without erasing the underlying photographic trace; geometric signs impose a visual order that dialogues with the organic complexity of the captured image; words insinuate themselves between the visual layers, not to explain them but to amplify their ambiguity.
This hybrid practice mirrors our contemporary reality, culturally and technologically fragmented, where images, texts and data constantly mix. I am not interested in resolving this ambiguity, but in consciously inhabiting it in a contemporary landscape, where distinctions between artistic disciplines become increasingly porous.
I am particularly interested in what Jacques Rancière defines as a thoughtful image, an entity that does not simply illustrate a pre-existing thought, but constitutes a magnetic field charged with unresolved tensions, resistant to univocal meanings. The work thus becomes a space of perpetual oscillation between apparently opposite polarities: technological automatism and manual gesture, documentation and creation, material presence and conceptual abstraction.
My creative process reflects this threshold condition: photographic elements are deconstructed and recontextualized, but never completely denied; pictorial interventions assert their materiality without erasing the underlying photographic trace; geometric signs impose a visual order that dialogues with the organic complexity of the captured image; words insinuate themselves between the visual layers, not to explain them but to amplify their ambiguity.
This hybrid practice mirrors our contemporary reality, culturally and technologically fragmented, where images, texts and data constantly mix. I am not interested in resolving this ambiguity, but in consciously inhabiting it in a contemporary landscape, where distinctions between artistic disciplines become increasingly porous.
Digital Art & Drawings • 36 obras de arte
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Welcome to this collection of digital art and digital drawings, where the cold rigor of geometric shapes [...]
Welcome to this collection of digital art and digital drawings, where the cold rigor of geometric shapes merges with the vibrant warmth of photography, giving life to a visual dialogue that transcends the boundaries between reality and abstraction. Each work is a passage that leads us into a hybrid universe, where the mathematical exactness of lines and angles intertwines with the organic softness of the images captured by the lens. These works are visual alchemies that transform the familiar into something new and surprising. Sharp triangles dance with blurry faces, perfect circles embrace cityscapes, while golden rectangles frame fragments of wild nature. The dance between geometric shapes and photographic visions expresses the desire to project the resulting image into a temporal dimension, marked by tension and balance, which is expressed through a more interior and existential language. So let yourself be transported on this sensorial journey, where logic meets emotion and digital precision blends with the unpredictability of life. These works do not ask to be understood, but to be experienced, like a visual haiku that whispers geometric secrets to the soul.
Chorographie • 34 obras de arte
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Chorographie is a series of thematic photographs that, like a Greek chorus, resonates in the viewer's [...]
Chorographie is a series of thematic photographs that, like a Greek chorus, resonates in the viewer's soul, entering into dialogue with their spirit to suggest a moral and profound vision of existence. Each single group of images from this metaphysical chorus is almost always born from a feeling, a poem, or some pieces of music that have inspired me, to be transformed into a solo voice that takes on a life of its own. However, it is in the chorality, in singing together with the others, that it finds a "completeness", a more complete sense that comes from being part of a chorus and one with it. Chorality offers a higher vision, a more mature and aware gaze that manages to perceive each part as the essence of the whole. In a certain sense, these photographs are a philosophical manifesto of existence, a living theater where the chorus acts as a bridge between spectator and protagonist, allowing for that transfer of emotions and profound reflections on the human condition. Invention, illusion, memory and even fiction, oblivion, intention, up to the complete suspension of disbelief: to date, photography remains the best visual synthesis for creating reality before even starting to represent it.
Hidden angel, angel of beauty • 27 obras de arte
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The eternal question, one of those capable of crossing the thoughts of all of us sooner or later, is: [...]
The eternal question, one of those capable of crossing the thoughts of all of us sooner or later, is: "What does the world around us look like?". Although it would be desirable to ask ourselves, and even better to find an answer, to the higher question: "How is our world made?", in the pages of this photographic collection we will only be pleased to explore solely the visual architecture of things, with the aim to discern whether, by dismantling this apparent surface and intertwining it with other emerging elements in our sphere of experience, we can come, at least in part, to see illuminating glimpses of these universal questions, even within the confines of our limited condition. Some angels, or better yet, a more delicate and earthly incarnation of them, with feminine contours, will be the spokespersons of these enveloping enigmas. One more consideration: despite the ideal of beauty that sometimes emerges, even in a spectacular way, from the images in question, on several occasions, a subtle aura of acceptance or even a marked pessimism linked to a peculiar vision of the contemporary world emerges. Whatever interpretation you choose to attribute to this work, it is essential to underline that there are never correct or wrong conclusions, but only new paths to take. At the bottom of a curtain of bitterness, invariably (and always) also stands the profound certainty of something that remains undisturbed, a perpetually practicable path towards happiness and authentic beauty. The last thought goes to some authors such as Borges, Calvino, Rilke, Sciascia who have left an indelible mark on my memory: I could not help but insert some of their famous quotes in the space created by the pairs of images, embracing in particular the hypothesis that each portrait, following in the footsteps of Calvino's "invisible cities", can be transformed into a love letter to photographic art.
These images are part of the artist's book: "Hidden Angel, Angel of Beauty"
These images are part of the artist's book: "Hidden Angel, Angel of Beauty"
"Res" • 16 obras de arte
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The Latin term "Res" is the thing that exists beyond the name and the face, the substance that persists [...]
The Latin term "Res" is the thing that exists beyond the name and the face, the substance that persists in time, space and chance, the uninterrupted dance between the palpable and the ephemeral. Suspended between the mystery of being and the concreteness of experience is the silent muse of these photographic images. It represents, in a more ontological vision, the fabric of objective reality, but it is also what emerges from consciousness: a deeper ideal or mental vision that offers itself as a subject of contemplation. By weaving a choreography of sensations it opens like a reflection of the complexity between the folds of perception, a constitutive substance of matter itself that merges with the essence of dreams and thoughts, a changing symphony that shapes that ethereal stage between the tangible and the ephemeral. A hymn and an invitation to the wonder of existing.
The groove in which these images are placed is that of an indication of the inexpressible reality, a territory "where I have never been": the photographs are reduced to a sort of pure "inscription" which has no other meaning outside of its mere existence. In these images, once again, language plays an essential role: it acts as a structure of separation where its presence is made only by its becoming silent in front of the visual work. This involves the inevitable manifestation of a "relationship with the lost", this apparent absence of language means that every moment is forgotten, so Res is entrusted with the task of translation so that the visual text becomes unforgettable, a sort of language for the deaf and dumb. The result of these ambiguities is a continuous "retraction": here the intention is not to withdraw or declare the testimony given by the images as false, but rather to "treat again", or to define the meaning in an increasingly clear way, to continue the magic of writing.
The groove in which these images are placed is that of an indication of the inexpressible reality, a territory "where I have never been": the photographs are reduced to a sort of pure "inscription" which has no other meaning outside of its mere existence. In these images, once again, language plays an essential role: it acts as a structure of separation where its presence is made only by its becoming silent in front of the visual work. This involves the inevitable manifestation of a "relationship with the lost", this apparent absence of language means that every moment is forgotten, so Res is entrusted with the task of translation so that the visual text becomes unforgettable, a sort of language for the deaf and dumb. The result of these ambiguities is a continuous "retraction": here the intention is not to withdraw or declare the testimony given by the images as false, but rather to "treat again", or to define the meaning in an increasingly clear way, to continue the magic of writing.
Like a secret breath in light • 9 obras de arte
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These photographs present themselves as silent enigmas that linger beyond the surface of things. They [...]
These photographs present themselves as silent enigmas that linger beyond the surface of things. They pursue the hidden soul behind the fleeting appearance of the world, that vibrant essence that is concealed from eyes clouded by habit or that eludes the distracted and superficial gaze. To do this, I place obstacles along the path traced by overly stereotypical visions, always ready to veil the secret energy of what I wish to represent. To make these deceptive veils fall, to tear away these illusory masks, has become almost a categorical imperative. Only in this way, through this incessant subtraction, can I glimpse the event in its original purity, like a sudden epiphany, a dazzling revelation that shakes the viewer from the comfortable torpor of routine or from the reassuring dogma of normality. This is why, while remaining faithful to the very essence of photography, working with light and shadow or with the relentless sharpness of the lens, I never deliver to the viewer's gaze predictable copies of reality, but a more unsettling point of view, capable of disorienting the usual coordinates of perception. The image I pursue with tenacity does not reproduce, but generates unexplored worlds. It unveils the unconfessable secret of things with their indecipherable shape, the elusive core of reality as a sudden opening towards a new universe that pulsates within the world itself. In these visions hovers a silence that is dense, profound, almost palpable. They are images situated in the unexplored folds of language, at the extreme edge of the sayable, where words surrender and vision takes over. Despite this incessant search for the invisible, this poignant yearning for the ineffable, my voice always rises to narrate silent losses, deep nostalgias, that lacerating absence that language itself creates in the moment it names and defines, captures and imprisons. Whispers, sediments, distant echoes, are the hushed voices that reach my consciousness, alternating in a discontinuous flow within this small labyrinthine space that I call photography. Something ephemeral and delicate, like a breath suspended in the air, and yet dense with recondite darkness, sometimes even impalpable and elusive like an evanescent ghost.
Retroversi • 18 obras de arte
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In this series I will discuss the creative process that sparked two works made up of 16 square photographs [...]
In this series I will discuss the creative process that sparked two works made up of 16 square photographs inspired by the dialogue between art and science. We start from the premise that photography is the representation of an idea created through the mediation between our gaze and sensible reality. Conversely, an (un)object that captures our attention can be transformed into an idea to be sealed in an image: I simply reformulated the previous sentence backwards (here comes the first "retroversion"). What would happen now if we tried to follow this process backwards? That is, instead of starting with an object in the physical world, we start from an abstract idea and then arrive at a final artefact. This is the opposite of what we commonly do when taking a photograph: the real object is only subsequently transformed into an idea that we fix on paper or on a screen. Since I wanted to give shape to a curious and restless simulacrum of non-existent female figures, of which only the name and some fleeting and dubious descriptions remain, I will necessarily have to resort to this unusual inversion: I will therefore use an artificial intelligence program to build this sad and narrow memorial of dull, empty, marginal figures, deteriorated by time and vainglory. Subsequently I will place various common objects alongside the printed images in order to recreate a more evocative atmosphere.
For this "artistic experiment" I was inspired by Popper and Eccles' theory of the three worlds. This theory is a philosophical perspective that seeks to explain the complexity of reality in three distinct Worlds:
- The First World refers to the world of objective physical phenomena. It is physical reality, composed of material objects, natural processes and empirically observable events.
- The Second World is the world of mental and subjective phenomena. This world includes the experiences, perceptions, and mental processes that occur within the human mind, including thoughts, emotions, and consciousness.
- The Third World is the world of the products of the human mind, such as language, culture, scientific knowledge, art and social institutions. This world is made up of concepts, ideas, symbols and representations that emerge from human mental activities and influence society and culture.
Popper and Eccles' theory suggests that the three worlds are interconnected and that the complete understanding of reality requires appropriate consideration of each of them. The authors developed such ideas as part of their research into the philosophy of mind and consciousness, seeking to overcome the dichotomy between the objective world of science and the subjective world of human experience.
My goal is thus to create a photographic work of art that passes from World Three to World One, through World Two. Ultimately, if we assume as a hypothesis that art resides in the world of ideas and knowledge, then even the use of new technologies based on generative Artificial Intelligence do not represent any threat to our creative process, but offer us new tools to expand the need to express, in new and increasingly profound ways, our personality.
For this "artistic experiment" I was inspired by Popper and Eccles' theory of the three worlds. This theory is a philosophical perspective that seeks to explain the complexity of reality in three distinct Worlds:
- The First World refers to the world of objective physical phenomena. It is physical reality, composed of material objects, natural processes and empirically observable events.
- The Second World is the world of mental and subjective phenomena. This world includes the experiences, perceptions, and mental processes that occur within the human mind, including thoughts, emotions, and consciousness.
- The Third World is the world of the products of the human mind, such as language, culture, scientific knowledge, art and social institutions. This world is made up of concepts, ideas, symbols and representations that emerge from human mental activities and influence society and culture.
Popper and Eccles' theory suggests that the three worlds are interconnected and that the complete understanding of reality requires appropriate consideration of each of them. The authors developed such ideas as part of their research into the philosophy of mind and consciousness, seeking to overcome the dichotomy between the objective world of science and the subjective world of human experience.
My goal is thus to create a photographic work of art that passes from World Three to World One, through World Two. Ultimately, if we assume as a hypothesis that art resides in the world of ideas and knowledge, then even the use of new technologies based on generative Artificial Intelligence do not represent any threat to our creative process, but offer us new tools to expand the need to express, in new and increasingly profound ways, our personality.
L.O.W. Camera Grammar Exercises • 77 obras de arte
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As a witty and improvised philosopher, I enthusiastically ventured into this disquisition on the arduous [...]
As a witty and improvised philosopher, I enthusiastically ventured into this disquisition on the arduous question of whether photography can be considered a language or not. The artist, with his ingenious interweaving of images, can undoubtedly create a system of relationships that evokes a sort of visual grammar. On the other hand, the choice to juxtapose certain photographs, to play with light, colours, shots and compositions, suggests a narrative path, an idea, an emotion. In this sense, it could therefore be said that the artist is attempting to build his own language, albeit not formalised, with its peculiarities and its intrinsic coherence. On the other hand, photography differs from language in some aspects: it lacks a universally recognized system of symbols, since its meaning can vary based on the subjective interpretation of the user. Furthermore, images can be ambiguous, polysemous and lend themselves to numerous misunderstandings. Finally, they are strongly dependent on the context, the meaning of an image being influenced by the culture, history and personal experiences of the user. Ultimately, the question of whether photography can be considered a real language remains open. However, the artist's work shows us that images can be used to communicate complex ideas and build evocative narratives thanks to his powerful communicative system. Perhaps, rather than a formalized language, it could be correct to speak of a "language in progress", a fertile ground for experimentation, where images free themselves from the mere representation of reality to take on a role of narrative and psychological introspection. In conclusion, photography is not a language like speech or writing, but it still has the ability to create a powerful dialogue between things.
Visual dialogues • 32 obras de arte
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This series represents a sort of mental space, an always open passage through which ideas continuously [...]
This series represents a sort of mental space, an always open passage through which ideas continuously transform and adapt to the space and time in which they are exposed. They are also a sort of showcase for looking, with a critical and curious eye, at those different techniques and materials that give shape to original, innovative or experimental works. This open and continually evolving space is therefore a form of research and study, which constantly questions the meaning and value of the work of art. Enjoy your visit!
RADICanto • 23 obras de arte
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RADICanto reveals an unprecedented perspective between the earth and humanity, underlining how deeply [...]
RADICanto reveals an unprecedented perspective between the earth and humanity, underlining how deeply intertwined our roots are, often more than we can imagine. Here, the human figure takes shape by virtue of the silent work of the roots through a slow construction guided by an ancient song, a sort of primordial energy from which both the earth and the human being have gradually derived their existence.
A contemporary look, however, reveals a curious dynamic: in fact, a contrast seems to emerge with the attacks that the earth suffers, while it defends itself by reclaiming its space again. This operation of apparent "erasure" manifests itself more as a sort of rewriting. We like to imagine that, behind this apparent disagreement, the true contours of coexistence between man and earth are hidden. No longer a relationship of aggression, but a symbiosis, a profound connection that our eyes unfortunately struggle to capture due to the growing distance from the essential things of the world.
This project presents itself as an investigation, an attempt to scrutinize through a gaze less contaminated by prejudice, what could be the ways to return to a principle of cooperation and integration with creation in this era of ever-increasing separation from the fundamental realities of life.
The teeming chaos of these images, a tribute to Pieter Bruegel, will slowly take shape to condense into a large digital collage after a long and meticulous study.
A contemporary look, however, reveals a curious dynamic: in fact, a contrast seems to emerge with the attacks that the earth suffers, while it defends itself by reclaiming its space again. This operation of apparent "erasure" manifests itself more as a sort of rewriting. We like to imagine that, behind this apparent disagreement, the true contours of coexistence between man and earth are hidden. No longer a relationship of aggression, but a symbiosis, a profound connection that our eyes unfortunately struggle to capture due to the growing distance from the essential things of the world.
This project presents itself as an investigation, an attempt to scrutinize through a gaze less contaminated by prejudice, what could be the ways to return to a principle of cooperation and integration with creation in this era of ever-increasing separation from the fundamental realities of life.
The teeming chaos of these images, a tribute to Pieter Bruegel, will slowly take shape to condense into a large digital collage after a long and meticulous study.
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Presentado en Ferias de Arte
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Biografía
Bienvenido al fantástico mundo de Luigi M. Verde, un lugar metafísico donde el autor celebra apasionadamente la fusión creativa de sus dos almas: el Arte y la Ciencia. Luigi nació en Melfi, en el sugerente sur de Italia, en una lejana primavera de 1969, una época en la que el arte digital era todavía un concepto lejano y futurista. Durante sus estudios de física y cibernética, descubrió una profunda pasión por la fotografía en blanco y negro y el cuarto oscuro.
Desde hace más de tres décadas, Luigi lleva a cabo una investigación muy personal que combina sus intereses por la filosofía, la programación y el lenguaje natural, con el irresistible deseo de expresarse artísticamente a través de la fotografía, la creación de pinturas digitales y la creación de libros de arte. Para no permanecer en la sombra, participa activamente en numerosos eventos culturales tanto en Italia como en el extranjero y se dedica activamente a la difusión.
La intención de Luigi es crear obras artísticas que realcen la complejidad y la amplia gama de combinaciones del mundo digital, sin descuidar la importancia de los gestos y el conocimiento artesanal. Lo que hace únicas sus obras son las intervenciones manuales realizadas durante la fase de impresión, que dan un toque más personal a cada creación. Estas intervenciones permiten transmitir un mayor impacto emocional, elevando su significado a un nivel superior.
El arte de Luigi es conceptual, donde, como un detective que se enfrenta a problemas de filosofía y caprichos lingüísticos, intenta dar forma y concepción a las ideas. Cada creación es un enigma por revelar, un mundo de profundos significados esperando ser descifrado y contado. Luigi se define como un artista visionario con un enfoque irónico, informal y extremadamente sintético, con un pie firmemente arraigado en la tradición artística y el otro en la era digital.
Te invitamos a explorar la galería de sus obras, dejándote involucrar emocionalmente en el torbellino de ideas y sugerencias.
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Nacionalidad:
ITALIA
- Fecha de nacimiento : 1969
- Dominios artísticos: Obras de artistas con valor de artista certificado, Obras de artistas profesionales,
- Grupos: Artistas certificados Artista Profesional Artistas Italianos Contemporáneos
Eventos artísticos actuales y próximos
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Influencias
Formación
2001 - 2023
Libero professionista
Reggio Emilia,
Italia
1987 - 1993
Laurea in Fisica ad orientamento Cibernetico
Napoli,
Italia
Cotización de artista certificada
Certificación realizada en colaboración con Akoun, líder mundial en información sobre el mercado del arte desde 1985.
Valoración del artista Arte digital 2024 | 1.200,00 € (1.398,84 US$)
La certificación ha sido establecida por Jacques-Armand Akoun el 10 ene 2024.
Logros
Exposiciones colectivas
2024
Yicca Contest 23/24
Milano - MATALON FOUNDATION,
Italia
Publicaciones y Prensa
Exposiciones individuales
2012
La Frontiera, L'ignoto, L'eresia
"Istituto italiano per gli Studi Filosofici" palazzo Serra di Cassano,
Napoli,
Italia
2011
L'uomo, Il Tempo, La Natura
Biblioteca ed Emeroteca comunale di Villa Bruno,
San Giorgio a Cremano (Na),
Italia
2007
Sguardi Sulle Basiliche Di Cimitile
Società Cicero Deutsch-Italienische Gesellschaft di Schwerin,
Alemania
2006
Memorie Di Pietra
Städtische Galerie "sohle 1" di Bergkamen,
Alemania
2005
Memorie Di Pietra
Consolato d'Italia a Dortmund,
Alemania
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Fecha de la última modificación: 6 ago 2025
(Miembro desde el 2014)
Vistas de imagen: 211.136
Obras de Luigi M. Verde añadidas a las colecciones favoritas: 231
My artistic practice consciously moves in an area of undecidability, inhabiting that liminal space where photography, drawing, painting and writing converge in an uninterrupted dialogue. I do not consider this hybrid approach as a simple sum of techniques, but as the affirmation of a poetics that recognizes its generative core in the tension between different languages. Although my works present manual interventions, geometric signs and material stratifications, I consider them fundamentally post-photographs as they maintain a profound connection with the indexical nature of the photographic medium. This media ambiguity is not indecision, but an active semantic strategy.
I am particularly interested in what Jacques Rancière defines as a thoughtful image, an entity that does not simply illustrate a pre-existing thought, but constitutes a magnetic field charged with unresolved tensions, resistant to univocal meanings. The work thus becomes a space of perpetual oscillation between apparently opposite polarities: technological automatism and manual gesture, documentation and creation, material presence and conceptual abstraction.
My creative process reflects this threshold condition: photographic elements are deconstructed and recontextualized, but never completely denied; pictorial interventions assert their materiality without erasing the underlying photographic trace; geometric signs impose a visual order that dialogues with the organic complexity of the captured image; words insinuate themselves between the visual layers, not to explain them but to amplify their ambiguity.
This hybrid practice mirrors our contemporary reality, culturally and technologically fragmented, where images, texts and data constantly mix. I am not interested in resolving this ambiguity, but in consciously inhabiting it in a contemporary landscape, where distinctions between artistic disciplines become increasingly porous.
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Añadido el 31 jul 2025
visio(so)phie, foto[so]phie e meta{so}phie
What happens when photography ceases to be a simple representation of reality and becomes an active form of thought?visio(so)phie, foto[so]phie, and meta{so}phie is the title of a vast theoretical and visual project that presents itself not merely as a short essay, but as a true conceptual device. A hybrid work in which visual art, philosophy, and language meet, collide, and transform…
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Añadido el 12 jul 2025
Anatomy of Reason
There exists an intimate and hidden space where reason and madness meet, giving birth to a visual archaeology of the human soul. In this work, I seek to inhabit that fragile fault line where meaning trembles, reconstituting itself in new and unexpected forms...
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Añadido el 16 jun 2025
Common Places: A Geography of the Soul against Contemporary Homologation
In the hidden heart of our interior landscapes lie "common places" that no image can ever fully tell. Yet, paradoxically, it is precisely through photography that these spaces can speak to us again, revealing that dimension of experience that contemporary speed has made invisible. What makes a place "common"? Not its banality, as we might think, but rather the excess of meaning that makes it transparent to our accustomed gaze.
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Añadido el 15 jun 2025
The Syntax of the Visual
Have you ever looked at a photograph and felt completely free to interpret it? That freedom, which we often mistake for expressive richness, actually hides one of the deepest paradoxes of contemporary visual communication. Every time we find ourselves faced with an isolated image, we enter an unstable semantic territory, where meanings multiply and disperse without control.
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Añadido el 9 jun 2025
Bacon's Idols and Contemporary Art
In his Novum Organum of 1620, Francis Bacon identified four categories of idols, false notions that hinder authentic knowledge of reality. These idola represented four cognitive vices that prevented access to truth: the idola tribus (of the tribe), rooted in human nature; the idola specus (of the cave), deriving from individual inclinations; the idola fori (of the market), generated by social language; and the idola theatri (of the theater), produced by dominant philosophical systems. Looking at the panorama of contemporary art with the diagnostic acuity of the English philosopher, a worrying picture emerges: today's artistic system seems pervaded by mechanisms that closely resemble these ancient obstacles to knowledge.
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Añadido el 5 jun 2025
Don't ask us for the word
The ancient statue, with its marble perfection, represents the human aspiration toeternity through form. But it is in the photographic trace, in its capacity to beindefinitely reproduced and reinterpreted, that the true nature of the contemporarysign manifests itself. It is not decoration, but arcane substance: it is the archetypalcode that Derrida speaks of, that original form that allows thought to existindependently of the one who thinks it.
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Añadido el 29 may 2025
Poised in stillness
The silence of the soul is a state of total receptivity, a condition of deep listening that precedes any form of authentic knowledge. “La pietra che respira è quella che ha conosciuto il silenzio dell’anima” becomes both metaphor and reconciliation of matter that has transcended its inert condition, through a spiritual metamorphosis and thanks to an encounter with contemplative silence.
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Añadido el 23 may 2025
The Doubt Theorem
Three identical muses and queens, draped in elegant evening gowns and their faces concealed behind bovine‑skull masks, conjure a modern echo suspended between classical tragedy and medieval sacred pageantry...
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Añadido el 18 may 2025
This is but a small cry of pain!
Three identical muses and queens, draped in elegant evening gowns and their faces concealed behind bovine‑skull masks, conjure a modern echo suspended between classical tragedy and medieval sacred pageantry...
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Añadido el 18 may 2025
Of permanent shadow and the fragile memory of an instant
This stone is an oxymoron sculpted by nature and chance, geological memory and instantaneous fracture, polished like an ancestral thought on one face and torn like a sudden trauma on the other...
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Añadido el 18 may 2025
Monologue
A statue, millennial emblem of formal perfection, becomes a battlefield for opposing forces. In the interstice between truth, freedom and world, opens the scarlet wound that breaks and traverses the work, not a scar but rather a revelation, a tear that unveils the impossibility of harmonious synthesis....
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Añadido el 13 may 2025
PAX
Peace is not a place to reach, but a gaze to cultivate. A gaze capable of seeing the light even when the clouds seem to have conquered every corner of the sky. A gaze that can recognize, in the cracks of the world and in the wounds of existence, not only the fragility of what passes, but also the stubborn, wonderful persistence of what, despite everything, continues to flourish.
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Añadido el 12 may 2025
'Pensive Image' by Jacques Rancière: A Zone of Undecidability between Reason and Experience
In the panorama of contemporary aesthetic philosophy, few concepts shine with such an intense and revealing light as that of the thoughtful image, masterfully theorized by Jacques Rancière. A conceptual constellation that, like a prism, refracts and reconfigures our understanding of the visual, inaugurating unexplored territories of critical reflection and aesthetic sensitivity.
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Añadido el 8 may 2025
Photo based art
In this space between traditions and new visual languages, between virtuality and physicality, between concept and matter, I find my most authentic expressive dimension. I am not interested in resolving ambiguity, but in inhabiting it consciously...
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Añadido el 4 may 2025
Happy birthday!
The fusion between the intimacy of personal storytelling – a love declared through the lens – and universal reflection on art and time
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Añadido el 16 abr 2025
L'ho visto con gli occhi di un clown
Introducing "L'ho visto con gli occhi di un clown" from my blog:
#photography #portrait #blackandwhite
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Añadido el 3 abr 2025
"Se mi fai il ritratto ti sparo!"
Introducing "Se mi fai il ritratto ti sparo!" ('If you take my portrait, I'll shoot you!'): a black and white photographic exploration of the conflict between the craving for visibility and the ancestral terror of being discovered.
#photography #portrait #blackandwhite #contemporaryart #IfYouTakeMyPortraitIllShootYou
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Añadido el 6 mar 2025
In the silence of my secret gardens
Fragments of an internal dialogue in black and white. Ruins, islands, silences and the enigmatic gaze of a she-devil. In this work I explore the labyrinth of existence, the fragile beauty of disenchantment, the secret melody that beats in the heart of lost things. A photographic journey into the soul, in search of an obstinate quiet and a truth hidden in the folds of the shadow.
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Añadido el 27 nov 2024
Beyond the surface: contemporary art between Ontology, Gnoseology and Epistemology
I share with the readers of Artmajeur a new post published in my blog on the relationship between photography and language:
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Añadido el 22 nov 2024
Art in the times of the ephemeral
I share with the readers of Artmajeur a new post published in my blog on the relationship between photography and language:
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Reseñas y comentarios
©2024 Luigi M. Verde
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Lavori molto interessanti. Complimenti.
©2024 Luigi M. Verde
©2024 Luigi M. Verde
Merci beaucoup Carol!
Très beau travail avec un imaginaire incroyable.
Cordialement
Carole Labeyrie
A ringrazia vi per a spassighjata inde a mo galleria è e scelte !
Un salutu di Corsica !
Very and refined artist, TOP+++
Excellent!!! Congratulations...
©2023 Luigi M. Verde
Come puoi non amarlo!!! Splendida !
Stupendo lavoro di luce e creatività. Ben fatto ! Adoro !!
Grazie Jean-François!
Congratulations. Super image!
Danke Franz, ich schätze deine Meinung sehr!
Surrealismus, wie ich ihn noch nicht gesehen habe, hier kann man wirklich vom Unterbewusstsein eines einzigartigen Künstlers sprechen. Bravo!
Superbe ! Magnifique univers ,bravo !
©2018 Luigi M. Verde
©2018 Luigi M. Verde
Un surrealismo moderno, aereo e tonificante !