Wind Sculptures

• Photographer
  Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, United Kingdom
• Website
  http://www.giuseppeloschiavo.com

WIND SCULPTURES

Wind Sculptures is a photographic experience that present
unpredictable sculpture created by the wind that only the
instant of a high-speed camera can sculpt and keep it forever.

A photograph as a sculpture and recorder of a performance. The
entire project was taken around Europe, Italy, Greece, France,
Switzerland, Portugal, UK and Iceland. The artist is also a
subject of this theatrical sculpture where human and nature
collaborate in a performance with even changing results.

The material used for this wind sculptures is a space weather
blanket, a special low-weight and very thin aluminium sheet,
gold or silver, developed by NASA in 1964 for the US space
program. Is is used for emergency kits as a thermal insulation or
as a locator beacon.

Video Trailer of the project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWhVbPXJZ_8

• Biography
  I use photography to materialize my visions and not for interpreting the reality. My biggest inspirations have been architecture and the Avant-guard art movement. I wish I would have lived during the first years of 1900 and have got the chance to meet Rene Magriitte, Salvador Dali and Marchel Duchamp. I pursuit every idea under a serendipity-way of approach. I have seen an entire city in a window, a mountain in a pebble; I even saw colors in a black & white picture. Born in 1986 in Italia and at an early age I discovered an inclination towards photography, I studied Architecture at the University of La Sapienza in Rome with my experimental final thesis on the subjects of Impossible Figures of Maurits Cornelis Ercher and the Anamorphism. "To be a surrealist means barring from your mind all remembrance of what you have seen, and being always on the lookout for what has never been" Renè Magritte
• Awards
  Awards CBM Prize 2014, 2 Honorable Mention at Internatioanl Photography Awards 2014, selection Exposure award 2013, 2012, Google + Saatchi GIF Award 2014, Portrait Salon 2013, Fotografia Europea 2013 jury prize, Young at Art Award 2012. Lo Schiavo uses the camera as a creative and limitless tool able to reproduce and convey his imagination, he considers himself as an inventor rather than a discoverer. His biggest inspiration is the history of art, nurtured during his long period in Rome, and in fact in his photographic works there are plenty of references to the Flemish painters, the surrealism of Magritte, the Pop Art and the futurism of Boccioni. The works of Giuseppe Lo Schiavo has been featured on BBC, Inside Art, O Estado de S. Paulo Newspaper, La Stampa, Wall Street International, Rai TG1, Radio Télévision Suisse 1, etc… The works of Lo Schiavo has been exhibited in numerous art galleries and museums all over the world such as Saatchi Gallery in London, Aperture Foundation in New York , Museum of Contemporary Art of Acri in Cosenza, Mixer Gallery in Istanbul and in other galleries in Rome, Turin and Munich and Miami. Lo Schiavo’s work has been presented also in various art fairs such as Contemporary Istanbul, SCOPE art Miami, Affordable Art Fair Milan and Artissima.