Renato Di Maggio Rodrigues (Basel, Switzerland, 1996) is a self-taught photographer and painter active between Basel and Rome. During the two-year period 2017-2018 he attends in Basel the atelier of Swiss artist Gilbert Uebersax (Atelierklingental), with whom he forms an artistic and formational partnership. In 2018 he starts his career as Street Photographer in Brighton, England. The atmosphere of the city nourished his curiosity and desireto leverage his skills, after his journey around England. He gained professional experiences through the main capitals in Europe, where he continued his research. In 2020 he graduated from the Italian Academy of Art, Fashion and Design in Rome and began working as a fashion photographer, but was gradually moving to Fine Arts, venturing, beyond Photography, in mixed media and painting. He took part in the collective exhibition "Resilience", curated by the gallery La Nica (Rome, 2020) with the project "The most important thing since 2020". He received an Honorable Mention from the Vienna International Photo Award (VIEPA 2020). In 2021 he won the call for Emerging Artists Under 30 organized by the city of Basel, following which he has the opportunity to participate in a collective exhibition in the Sommercasino. In the same year, two of his works are selected for the solo exhibition of the artist Gilbert Uebersax and exhibited at the Rappaz Museum.
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photoSCHWEIZ 2022
10 Bilder
''Ricordo Palermo'' This series was taken in the summer of '20, I was still a student in Rome. In the midst of the pandemic, I decided to go to Palermo, as soon as it became possible to travel again, when the government decided to ease the restrictions due to the covid. I flew to Sicily years after my last visit to this island. I came with the curiosity to see what became of Palermo, I wanted to go back to see how this city had approached me. I still had strong childhood memories and feelings of how it used to be. I returned as a young adult with a lot of curiosity and above all with a different eye. The purpose of this work was first and foremost to capture everything about the city, to capture everything about the way it looked to me, to capture it one-to-one in every photograph I took. To create an image of the authenticity, capturing the atmosphere and the light that this city reflects.
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