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On the cover: “Pellicano”, Lidia Patelli.
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II° PROPOSTA HEILLANDI
SELEZIONE DI FOTOGRAFIA
CONTEMPORANEA
2017/18
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AUTORI:
CHIARA ARTURO
MARGOT ERRANTE
SIMONA LATARTARA
STEFAN MILEV
GIADA OTTEN
LIDIA PATELLI
GIUSEPPE PENNISI
JACEK P. SOLTAN
SOFIA USLENGHI
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CHIARA ARTURO
Chiara Arturo was born in Ischia (NA, Italy) in 1984.
During her study at Magistral Degree Course in Architecture she used photography as a means of
expression, demonstrating and cultivating a lively interest in landscape. Furthermore, Chiara
attended visual art workshops and participated in several collective exhibitions, among which Archive
Tellers at Museo MAXXI (Rome). She graduated with honors with a final thesis in Landscape
Urbanism on environmental contamination in Campania. In 2012 she was selected for LABper un
Laboratorio Irregolare, a masterclass in personal research headed by Antonio Biasiucci in Naples.
Between 2014 and 2015 she exhibited with LAB at Castel dell’Ovo (NA), at Festival Internazionale di
Fotografia of Rome and at SI Fest of Savignano sul Rubicone (FC), with the collective exhibit -
installation “Epifanie”. In 2015 the first solo exhibition with the work 18 miles at Eloart Gallery (Ischia,
NA). In 2016 she was selected for the Imago Mundi Collection.
Her personal research is focused on the landscape and space perception, the archiving of memories,
the way the perception and archiving influence the imaginary construction; starting from an
introspective investigation with a cartographic method, she focuses on the geographies of thought,
traces, journeys, visions and wounds.
Currently, she works at her personal project and as assistant for Antonio Biasiucci; she lives in Italy,
between Naples and Vicenza.
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CHIARA ARTURO
“18 miglia #007”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
“18 miglia #012”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
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CHIARA ARTURO
“18 miglia #008”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
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CHIARA ARTURO
“18 miglia #009”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
“18 miglia #016”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
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CHIARA ARTURO
“18 miglia #003”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
“18 miglia #005”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
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CHIARA ARTURO
“18 miglia #004”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
“18 miglia #017”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
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CHIARA ARTURO
“18 miglia #001”
Year 2017
giclée print on Fine Art Moab
18 x 27 cm
edition of 7
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MARGOT ERRANTE
Margot Errante is an Italian-born performance artist and photographer. She traveled throughout the
world and lived in China for 22 years, since the age of 19. She now spends most of her time between
Hong Kong, Milan and Lugano.
Her body of artistic works explores human nature and identity. She calls attention on the
psychological engagement between the photographer and the sitter, which often "leads to
unpredictable results." She developed a passion for photography from an early age, and began
shooting landscapes at 10 when she was given her first camera, a compact Olympus. Eclectic by
nature, Margot speaks five foreign languages fluently, including Chinese, and became a researcher in
cultural anthropology, applying her understanding of human behavior to her portraiture.
Professionally, Errante started out as a travel photographer in the late 1990s while studying Chinese
at Beijing Language and Culture University. But photography was not her only interest: in 2004 she
moved for a year to an indigenous village deep into the jungles of the Sino-Burmese border, where
she conducted ethnographic research on the Wa people. The photographic fruits of this study
culminated in a successful exhibition held in Como, Italy, in 2005, to raise funds for the village in
which she lived. That same year, Margot was selected as the photographer for a diplomatic mission
sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs – a three months' journey from Italy to Japan by
car, with a stopover in North Korea that won the team a Peace Award.
Her experience in the media spans wide: she worked as a freelance photojournalist and television
correspondent. She produced a short documentary on Canada's First Nations and during the 2008
Olympic Games she hosted a successful television program - Beijing Express - broadcast by Class
CNBC.
While witnessing the massive reconstruction of Chinese cities, she became interested in architecture
and urban development, and collaborated with many local architecture firms. In 2008 she
contributed to the publication "Beijing Architecture & Design", and started writing about the
anthropology of architecture for the Italian magazine TALE&A up until 2010. Margot taught foreign
languages in Chinese universities. In 2010 she wrote a Chinese language textbook for DeAgostini
Editore, then moved to Hong Kong where she opened her photographic studio. That same year she
co-curated the Hong Kong Pavillion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice
Biennale.
Margot taught digital photography classes at Istituto Dante Alighieri and lectured at Insight School
of Interior Design, in Hong Kong. Her photographs have been featured on China National
Geography, the South China Morning Post, Home, PRC, Ming, Domus China, Abitare China, Hinge,
Mark, Capital, Perspective, Wallpaper, Loft Publications, and more.
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MARGOT ERRANTE
“Ode to Snow”
2008, cm 80x60
Edition of 3+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle
paper
“Beijing’s Bird Eye ”
2008, cm 80x60
Edition of 3+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle
paper
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MARGOT ERRANTE
“Woman With A Wig”
2008, cm 50x70
Edition of 3+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper
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MARGOT ERRANTE
“Vegas Dream”
2006, cm 80x60
Edition of 5+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle
paper
“Dove”
2006, cm 50x37
Edition of 5+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle
paper
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MARGOT ERRANTE
“Where’s The Ball? ”
2017, cm 40x60
Edition of 5+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper
“No Traffic Police”
2005, cm 50x35
Edition of 5+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper
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MARGOT ERRANTE
“The Bride”
2017, cm 50x60
Edition of 3+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper
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MARGOT ERRANTE
“China Star”
2017, 70x48cm
Edition of 5+2AP
Archival Pigment Print
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MARGOT ERRANTE
“Ballerina”
2017, cm 37x50
Edition of 5+2AP
Giclée print on Hahnemühle paper
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SIMONA LATARTARA
Simona Latartara was born in Taranto in 1983.
Art enthusiast, she begins to give life to her artistic creativity by approaching photography. Starting
from a classic and realistic worldview, she comes to a totally irrational and dreamlike reality using
imagination as a conductor between shoot and picture. Through photography there is a constant
search of energy between human and nature, a balance sometimes highlighted by light as well as the
static movement of her images.
Simona defines her way of living photography as a "CANONE INVERSO", sometimes starting from
matter to get to the picture. Hence, the systematic use of analog cameras.
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SIMONA LATARTARA
“Untitled”
2016
cm 11x9
unique
impossible instant color
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SIMONA LATARTARA
“Untitled”
2016
cm 70x29,5
edition of 5
lightjet print on acrylic from
120mm treated B/W film
“Untitled”
2016
cm 11x9
unique
impossible instant color
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SIMONA LATARTARA
“Untitled”
2015
cm 11x9
unique
impossible instant b/w
“Untitled”
2015
cm 11x9
unique
impossible instant b/w
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SIMONA LATARTARA
“Untitled”
2015
cm 11x9
unique
impossible instant color
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STEFAN MILEV
Stefan Milev was born in Bulgaria in 1981.
Impressionist. Expressionist. Surrealist.
Stefan Milev photographs sending out rays of sensual poetry! He gives his pictures a subtle aura of
mystery and stands with hiswork between photography and painting. Stefan Milev displays a highly
artistic photographic identity towards the relationship between the model and his very personal
technique of painting with light. As a result, Milev’s picturesque meaning of photographs uncover a
unique and multiplex sense for the Zeitgeist in photography.
Milev, first and foremost recognized as a pictorialist continues the tradition of Fine Art photographers
from the early 19th Century such as Alvin Langdon Coburn and George Seeley.
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STEFAN MILEV
“Dune - Simone van Werkhoven, Paris”
2010
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Platinum Palladium process
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STEFAN MILEV
“Farben Studie - Flamingo, Stuttgart”
2015
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Tricolor Carbon process
“Farben Studie - Nashornvogel, Stuttgart”
2015
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Tricolor Carbon process
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STEFAN MILEV
“Toros Blumengruss, Munich”
2015
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Tricolor Carbon process
“Farben Studie - Bouquet-Schatten, Freiberg”
2015
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Tricolor Carbon process
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STEFAN MILEV
“Undaunted - Fritz Adamski, Duesseldorf”
2012
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Tricolor Carbon process
“Piet Mondrian letter to H.P. Bremmer 1914,
Duesseldorf”
2013
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Tricolor Carbon process
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STEFAN MILEV
“Les Fleurs du mal - Nele Heinemann, Augustin Teboul, Berlin”
2012
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Platinum Palladium process
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STEFAN MILEV
“Maayan Keret with Hat, Munich”
2011
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Platinum Palladium process
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STEFAN MILEV
“Iggy Pop”
2011
4x5 inches print on paper signed by Iggy Pop
+ cm 20x25
edition of 7
Platinum Palladium process
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STEFAN MILEV
“De Monocerote - Agne Petkute, Munich”
2011
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Platinum Palladium process
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STEFAN MILEV
“The Frequency - Marie-Sophie Roussel, Duesseldorf”
2014
cm 20x25
edition of 7
Platinum Palladium process
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GIADA OTTEN
Giada Otten was born in Albania in 1985.
Giada Otten grew up in Tuscany, Italy. After earning her BFA in Painting at Accademia di Belle Arti di
Carrara in 2011, Otten moved first to Milan to study photography at Brera Academy, and then to the
United States where she discovered an interest in old photography methods. In 2015, she completed
her study in photography at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 2016, Otten began
teaching photography at St. Louis Community College.
She now works predominantly with digital, analog camera, expired film, polaroids and with other
alternative photographic processes such as cyanotype, Van Dyke brown and liquid emulsion. Using
these combined methods, Otten explores the human existence, creating very enigmatic and
symbolic image that transcend the reality.
She is best known for her conceptual portrait photography and her skills on alternative photographic
processes expressed in a contemporary language.
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GIADA OTTEN
“Untitled”
2016
cm 33.02x48.26
edition of 7
cyanotype on watercolor paper cold pressed
100% pur coton
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GIADA OTTEN
“Untitled”
2014
( 2 x )cm 16x16
edition of 7
cyanotype on watercolor paper cold pressed
100% pur coton
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GIADA OTTEN
“Untitled”
2014
21.59 x 30.48
edition of 5
Van Dyke Brown on watercolor paper cold pressed
100% pur coton
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GIADA OTTEN
“Zen Garden”
2014
27.94x35.56
edition of 8
Inkjet print on resin coated paper
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LIDIA PATELLI
Lidia Patelli was born in Lugano in 1972.
Lidia Patelli lived in Switzerland (Lugano), where she studied at CSIA (Study Centre for Art Industry)
and S.S.A.A. (Institute of Applied Art).
She has been living in Bergamo, Italy, since 2005 where she works as a photographer. In particular
she has specialized in photographing modern and ancient works of art, in which field she made
several photographic campaigns which were published in some exhibition catalogues (Silvana
Editoriale, Giulio Einaudi Editore).
In 2015 she showed some of her photos in her first solo exhibit “Lessico familiare”, organized by ARS
L+A in Bergamo. In 2016 she showed her “Pelican” at the Summer Exhibition, in the Royal Academy
of Arts in London.
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LIDIA PATELLI
“Pelican”
2014
cm 85x63
edition of 8
Photographic print on cotton paper fine art
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LIDIA PATELLI
“Gallus Gallus”
2017
cm 85x63
edition of 8
Photographic print on cotton paper fine art
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LIDIA PATELLI
“Luca’s Dream”
2016
cm 85x63
edition of 8
Photographic print on cotton paper fine art
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GIUSEPPE PENNISI
Giuseppe Pennisi was born in Lugano in 1955.
Giuseppe Pennisi obtains his Federal Certificate as a Photographer in 1970 under the careful
guidance of Di Neno Athos Brunel, owner of one of the most renowned photo studios in Ticino.
After a long cooperation with the same studio, he starts his activity as an independent and opens his
own photo studio in Tesserete.
For over 20 years he cooperates as an official photographer with the Thyssen-Bornemisza
Foundation, creating also prestigious Art catalogues for the publishing companies Electa and
Mondadori.
With the advent of digital photography in 1998 he obtains his Federal Certificate as a Multimedia
Operator at CSIA (Artistic Industries School Center). In 2000, in the role of Director of the
Photography Department, he cooperates with the project AROUNDER, based on 360° Panoramic
Photography, ensuring both the realization of photo shoots and the training and management of the
freelance Photographers.
Giuseppe has taught Fixed Photography at CISA (International Academy of Audiovisual Sciences) in
Lugano from 2004 to 2014. Speaker at workshops about Panoramic Photography at Digital Culture in
Italy and organizer of workshops about Panoramic Photography at 798 Art District in Beijing, he has
also worked with the Australian artist Simon Denny, for the preparation of his installation dedicated
to the National Library of St Mark's at the Venice Biennale in 2015.
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GIUSEPPE PENNISI
“Moscardino”
2017,
cm 100x75
Edition of 7
Carbon Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
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GIUSEPPE PENNISI
“Ortensia”
2017,
cm 75x100
Edition of 7
Carbon Pigment print on
Hahnemühle paper
“Piuma Bianca”
2017,
cm 100x75
Edition of 7
Carbon Pigment print on
Hahnemühle paper
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GIUSEPPE PENNISI
“Alici Con Ghiaccio”
2017,
cm 100x75
Edition of 7
Carbon Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
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GIUSEPPE PENNISI
“Piuma”
2017,
cm 100x75
Edition of 7
Carbon Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
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GIUSEPPE PENNISI
“Radice”
2017,
cm 100x75
Edition of 7
Carbon Pigment print on Hahnemühle paper
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
Jacek P. Soltan was born in Warsaw/Poland in 1958.
Born in Warsaw, In 1973 he moved to Milan/Italy. In 1987 he began a professional photographer.
He started working with several important Italian & international magazines. He improved his art as
portraiter, and realized, also, works for music labels & advertising agencies.
In ’92 he moved to Paris, then, in ’94 to Amsterdam, there he based for 10 years.
He travelled & realized several reportage & celebrities portraits; meanwhile he began a new, deep,
personal research. Soltan is a photographer appreciated for his sharp, enthralling and ironic look
able to combine a Mediterranean visual culture with the light&shade oneiric vision of Central
European civilisation where he grow up.
Some of his works are included in public or private collections. He lives in Italy.
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
“Amsterdam55”
1996
cm 10.1 x 12.7
unique
Polaroid
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
“Amsterdam55”
1996
cm 10.1 x 12.7
unique
Polaroid
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
“Amsterdam55”
1996
cm 10.1 x 12.7
unique
Polaroid
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
“Amsterdam55”
1996
cm 10.1 x 12.7
unique
Polaroid
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
“Amsterdam55”
1996
cm 10.1 x 12.7
unique
Polaroid
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
“Untitled”
1996
cm 10.1 x 12.7
unique
Polaroid 59
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JACEK P. SOLTAN
“Domus Academy”
1996
cm 10.1 x 12.7
unique
Polaroid 59
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SOFIA USLENGHI
Sofia Uslenghi was born in 1985 in Reggio Calabria, Italy.
She has been into photography research for fifteen years, focusing primarely on self-portraits. The
representation of one's image is the result of a long and complex process which passes through a
phase where the photographer's eye is not immediately recognizable before getting to the complete
and declared self-representation.
The subject wants to be present and subtract itself from its own meaning at the same time. However,
for its basic referential property, it manages to build not only what it states but also what it denies.
The search for satisfaction under the impulse of the principle of pleasure is marked by a process of
disintegration, movement, overlapping, deformation, union of contraries, denial and objective reality.
In the trespassed order of the representation it is not the unconscious that makes itself visible, but
the dynamics of desire which want to make it transparent.
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SOFIA USLENGHI
“Disappearing #7”
2017
cm 21*29
edition of 5
inkjet printing on 100% cotton Museum prestige Matte
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SOFIA USLENGHI
“Disappearing #1,2,3”
2016
( 3 x ) cm 21*29
edition of 5
inkjet printing on 100% cotton Museum prestige Matte
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SOFIA USLENGHI
“Flora #11”
2016
cm 21*29
edition of 5
inkjet printing on 100% cotton Museum prestige Matte
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SOFIA USLENGHI
“My Grandma and me #3”
2016
cm 21*29
edition of 5
inkjet printing on 100% cotton Prestige Baryta
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SOFIA USLENGHI
“Sicilia #1”
2016
cm 21*29
edition of 5
inkjet printing on 100% cotton Prestige Baryta
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HEILLANDI Gallery Sagl
Via Canova 7
6900 Lugano
+4191 921 11 00
info@heillandigallery.ch
www.heillandigallery.ch
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