Valentina Murabito

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Valentina Murabito in her studio in front of her analogue photograph "Geier" developed on the wall (Berlin, 2016)

Valentina Murabito (born September 28, 1981 in Giarre ) is an Italian photographer and visual artist . Her photographic works are a hybrid of various art forms that are combined in experimental analog photography . 

Life

Valentina Murabito was born in Sicily . At school she learned ancient Greek , Latin and philosophy . From 2004 to 2009 she studied graphics at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Catania , where she learned both modern graphics software and old methods such as xylography , lithography and photography . In 2008 she won two scholarships to study at the Moholy Nagy University of Applied Arts and Design in BudapestStudy photography. During this time she created her first large series “Melankólikus”, which brings together video, photography and video documentation. She graduated with honors.

Valentina Murabito came to Germany in 2009 for the sake of philosophy and now lives in Berlin .

Self-portrait study 03 .jpg
Self portrait. Study No. 3, 60 × 50 cm, analog b / w photography, hand print on baryta paper, unique specimen, 2013, private collection Munich

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Topics & technology

Valentina Murabito creates in her pictures "intermediate beings" that do not fit into any specific category, hybrids of man and woman, man and animal. She plays with gender roles and questions the concept of identity . (ARTE TV report, January 19, 2017).

She experiments with analog photography, for example by dissolving the photographic surface in order to shape it like a skin or to break it like dry earth. The artist develops her photographic works by hand on baryta paper , watercolor paper , wood, steel, concrete and wall surfaces. Her works open a dialogue with painting and sculpture and are unique.

Valentina Murabito's aesthetics refer to research by photography pioneers such as Eadward Muybridge . Her works try to cross the boundaries of photography by questioning its relationship to the real. As R. Hanselle wrote in fotoMagazin, they are “enchantment and transcendence”.

Exhibitions & Collections

Valentina Murabito's works can be found in the SpallArt Collection in Salzburg, Austria and other private collections internationally.

Her works showed u. a. the Abbey of Klosterneuburg in Austria, the museum Delizia Estense Verginese (UNESCO) and the Hungarian Academy of Rome in Italy and the Städtische Galerie Rosenheim in Germany.

Publications

"Il corpo solitario. L'autoscatto nella fotografia contemporanea - vol. III", book, Rubbettino Editore, Italy, 2020

"Magic of Silence", catalog, p. 32, Germany, 2018

"MENSCHENsKINDER", catalog, p. 160, Germany, 2018

"Emerging Artists worth investing in", p.250, 2017 (book published by Exibart Editions)

"Art floor 2017", p. 93, 2017 (catalog)

"The aura is back", p.78, 2016 (catalog, in the archive of the Academy of Arts, Berlin)

"Who Art You?", P.150, 2015 (catalog)

"III ° National Prize for Painting and Photography Paola Occhi", p.130, 2014 (catalog)

"LVIII ° National Prize for Contemporary Art Basilio Cascella", p.88, 2014 (catalog)

"Veramiglia Contest 2014", p. 60, 2014 (catalog)

"FORM-A (R) T", page 59, 2014 (catalog)

"Astrazioni dal quotidiano", p.25, 2007 (catalog)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Valentina Murabito Official Site | Self-portrait. Study n.03. Retrieved June 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Valentina Murabito's photographic intermediate creatures. Retrieved February 26, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Suzan Kizilirmak: Valentina Murabito. Into the skin. In: http://www.edition-dibue.de/content/ . edition buehrer, July 1, 2019, accessed on August 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Who am I, who can I be? Retrieved August 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ralf Hanselle: At the edges of the real. In: https://www.fotomagazin.de/heft/fotomagazin-edition-no-9-buehne-der-bilder . Year Top Special Verlag, accessed October 30, 2019 .
  6. ↑ http://www.sammlung-spallart.at/de/sammlung/1938/kuenstler/740/
personal data
SURNAME Murabito, Valentina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian artist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Giarre