biography of the artist
The Artist was Born in Camerino (MC), Italy in 1964. He lives and works between Pioraco (MC) and Pescara. Gian Domenico Negroni he born artistically as a photographer who has gained a wealth of artistic and cultural training. The first approaches to photography are modeled a little history of many photographers; amateur photographer father, in fact, conveys the passion for image. The first pictures are devoted to the landscape and the human figure: the sea, ports, fishermen and networks, many portraits. He starts to attend the "Photo Club Pescara" in 1980, from which participated in the courses dedicated to composition and classical themes of photography. Begin to make the first experiences in the darkroom. Franco Fontana knows it and is influenced and fascinated: "Fontana has given me loads and enthusiasm .... vibrations." Gian Domenico Negroni he graduated in 1984 at the Art School A. Misticoni of Pescara, in the setting section. He attended the photography of Prof. G. Silla laboratory at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, completing his studies in theatrical set design and film section. Gian Domenico, thanks to the teachings of Silla, harmonized and comprehensive, its path of deepening of photography. He obtained, in the academic year 1989-1990 a degree in art historythesis "New forms of art in the age of advanced technology and consumerism", supervisor Prof. Chiar.mo Maria Carmela Stella. In 1985 collaborates with a study in the field of advertising photography and ceremony, held in 1989 as an advertising graphic designer, since 1991, he has once again turned to graphic services advertising and still life. Gian Domenico Negroni is very interesting work in the advertising world: "In this area I can release my imagination, I have the opportunity to communicate messages through the wise use of codes and technical" .Work also with black and white, but prefers the color. His color photographs have an almost surreal appearance. saturated and strong colors, altered through the use of filters: The goal is to get photos that are as far as possible from a simple photocopy of reality. Saturated colors then we will find, in his painting. Gian Domenico tries to excite and intrigue the reader, want to draw attention, invite to a deeper analysis of hiswork. Manipulate the message even resorting to particular developments of the films. Images tight and provocative, like work "Traces of Civilization" exhibited in 2004 in "Contemporary ExhibitionSpace" in Deruta (Pg). Wheels, rolling, lifeless objects abandoned by a modern man who does not seem capable of leaving significant signs of its existence. The man of the past, however, has given us a legacy lasting and wonderful testimonies of hisculture and his conception of beauty. Gian Domenico, with his photographs, wants to convey emotions, to communicate himself, empathize with others. It clicks frequently leads the viewfinder eye only when the inspiration to finish the ripening process of the message. As a photographer does not want to make trivial or repetitive images. As an artist seeks to enhance the role of the sensitivity and the emotional and cultural baggage. Very beautiful his statement: "The camera is just a prosthesis .... With the only technique you just, it's like the musician who knows the notes, but does not give life, warmth to music that sounds ..." How is happened to many other photographers, even Gian Domenico, with the advent of digital photography, he lost the verve to this artistic expression: "with the filtered images from the computer, it fails that poem that has made photography ...". Disappointed new technologies he believes are only commercial transactions to the detriment of Art, Gian Domenico Negroni leaves the camera, attracted by the world of painting. After closing the photographic studio in 2003, he began working in a small engineering company where he remained until 2010. During this time, pretty dark and depressing, began the painting activity. Mature slowly to form a first personal vision of the inner world; of the human psyche. From the belief that society often freezes and oppresses the minimum effort of imagination that we should all have, does the choice of two colors: red, concrete, passionate and blue, positive way out to infinity. Two colors apparently very distant but still tight in an embrace which indicates the impossibility to be separated as two expressions of human life. In 2005 he takes a further evolution of its mode of expression; the focal point of his paintings is always the psyche, the unconscious. In his increasingly gestural painting, he expresses calmness at the same time an uneasy feeling, but the real news are the materials. Before his works were carried out only with the acryliccolor, now also it appears in the plaster, the gauze and the makings, Latin aluminum and industrial wastes collected during working hours. A particular technique to which the artist attaches a precise meaning rich of symbolic elements. While the body emerges from the bottom, the soul remains trappedand suffocated under a heavy layer of material, in an undefined background, no characterization of space and time, as if this situation were eternal. Yet the plaster is cracked, scratched, worn by Being attempts desperately trying to get out and away. A combination of what form and what ever we willhave it. The shape and what appears on the surface, the brightness of the color, the structure of matter. It transpires through the form in the inside surface, the profound, the most intimate parts of the self. Contrasts of light and shadow creates the volumes, accentuated by the effect of the material embossed, creating sometimes even disturbing and mysterious atmosphere. Even the palette becomes more vivid, the colors become sometimes violent, as the message the artist wants to communicate, a strong thought full of hope.