COSMO LAERA
Lo sguardo del paesaggio, 2013
cm 78 x 106
#2 from the edition of 3 cm 40 x 60 #1 from the edition of 2 inkjet print |
Cosmo Laera was born in Puglia in Alberobello in 1962, he began his relationship with photography young age by choosing to follow the artistic and professional career in his homeland. He started to show his work in the eighties proposing its production in exhibitions and festivals in Italy and abroad. Starting from these experiences he has been developing itself as a curator of exhibitions, international festivals for more than twenty-five years.
It remains determined to pursue his photographic research increasingly focused on the relationship between vision and territory: the purpose of these works is to reveal aspects of immediate empathy between places and their morphology regardless of their function. Conceptually, the photographs take on an expressive potential in continuous evolution that allows a re-knowledge and a development of attention around the place or the subject portrayed. Supporter of the need to create dialectical relation, he created and directed four editions of Montedoro Photography 1992-1995 and nine editions of Alberobello Photography / Photography in Puglia 1996-2004 and other events in Puglia, creating a network of productions of the authors most celebrated international photography and urban microclimates of small towns, claiming the cultural identity through an iconography in real time. He collaborated on several prestigious international awards and brought care sector of the photographic exhibition and publishing projects such as: Mediterranean 2005 International Bariphotocamera Award 2006; Basil Bari 2007; Besides the Stone 2008. From 2003 to 2012 he is artistic director of Corigliano Calabro Photography, 2009-2012 is the Artistic Director of the Vedetta photo industry on the Mediterranean in Giovinazzo (Ba). He has participated as an author in group exhibitions and has exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions. Since 2006 he teaches photography at the Academy of Brera in Milan, he has taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bari, Lecce and Catania. He lives and works between Milan and Alberobello. |
Orizzonte mediterraneo #4
cm 44 x 33
inkjet print |
Lo Spettacolo della Città, 2013
cm 40 x 60
#1 from the edition of 4 cm 82 x 106 #1 from the edition of 1 inkjet print |
The heart of art #8
cm 44 x 33
inkjet print
inkjet print
Luogo della memoria #1, 2013
cm 40 x 60
#1 from the edition of 5
inkjet print
#1 from the edition of 5
inkjet print