Mauro Vitale
Mauro Vitale creates works of art which, in one shot, in one frame, manage to be much more incisive than a treatise on sociology and anthropology, because, in addition to having the ability to make people understand the idea, the message, the project preparatory art, they tell in an extremely detailed way the stories, the lives of women and men bearers of a culture and traditions that come from very far away, both in space and, apparently, in time. Observing a work by Mauro Vitale necessarily means placing yourself in a state of reasoning and comparison with yourself, due to the evident disruptiveness of the message; message that offers us, in a very elegant way, a direct comparison with other cultures, other habits, other social models, other lives that in many cases seem to come from too far away to be current. They are a cross-section of our world, moments apparently distant from our everyday lives, pieces of other people’s lives, characters full of serenity, of that serenity that our part of the world has forgotten.
Abruzzese, former photographer for the Ministry of Culture, took care of the photographic and editorial section in the cultural initiatives and exhibitions of the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Abruzzo and of the MINISTRY OF CULTURE. For seven years (2007-2014), he was the head of photographic services of the publishing house Menabò with which he continues to collaborate for the magazine “D’Abruzzo”.
He is currently involved in several transnational research projects on cultures not yet massified: (“West of the sun” subtitle the rural civilization in Romania, Albania and southern Italy between present and past – “Troglodyte civilizations” – The troglodyte settlements of Kandovan Cappadocia Matera Canosa Pennapiedimonte, “Sacred mountains “Abruzzo-Armenia from Majella to Ararat “Lands of origin” – interaction of Maghrebi migrants in Fucino).
He has exhibited his works among other places in: Rome (Luigi Pigorini Museum of Civilizations and Ethnography “Archeofest”); Matera (European Capital of Culture-OPEN FUTURE- 2019 project “People and Lands of Wool”); Tehran (Nami Gallery of Artists “The migrations of Qashqai and Talysh nomads”); London (Italian Cultural Institute London “Votives and ex-votos”); Atri (Archaeological Museum-‘Iran’ exhibition of contemporary art and culture Stills of Peace); Aurum of Pescara (Peoples and lands of wool); Chieti (National Museum of Civitella “The colors of the Future”); Chieti (National Museum of Villa Frigerj “Paths of men, Paths of Faith”); Villetta Barrea- (Transhumance and Migrations); Francavilla al Sea (CHILDREN OF MINOR ARTS-artisan creativity and poetry in gestures in the land of Abruzzo); Villa Badessa-(Journey around man); Spoltore-(RESIDENCES); Francavilla al mare-MuMi Museum (“CHI” reflections on contemporary man).
