Polaroid Art - Daniele Pezzoli - Polaroid

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Bio

After art’s studies, mentored by eminent artists, Daniele stepped into photography as press photographer, following Formula1, MotoGP, and international Rally races, that he carried on for more than 10 years.

After a short pause. he backed into photography in fashion and commercials’ field, with some of his works published on GQ, Forbes, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, and others used in the Pavarotti International Festival.

He worked for many years for Playboy Italy and CafèRacer France.

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Beside his job, Daniele has always used photography as an art form, melting it with different visual techniques, with a physical approach to the print itself, and experimenting various types of materials and their manipulation.

Inspired by artists like Nino Migliori, Piero Manai and others, since the beginning (back in 70s’), he started using Instant films, and RankXerox copy-machines, with an innovative approach to photography for the time.

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Daniele was particularly attracted by Polaroid Films, that he used in a way between photography and painting, with creations not that far from dadaism ar even impressionism… and they were even istantaneus!

So, at the sad news of the Polaroid plants’ closure, in 2008, Daniele founded PolaroidArtItaly, the first italian social group of instant photographers, wich he lead and coordinated till 2020, organising noumerous meetings, exhibitions, and always trying to disseminate his very first passion: Instant photography

Collective and personal exhibitions

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Present in private collections

Exhibitions

2002 – pubblicazione del libro fotografico SHANGAI SEDUCTION per WELLA e OREA MALIA’
2002 – personale “SELFPORTRAITS” galleria il Navile – Bologna
2003 – personale “SELFPORTRAITS” galleria StileLibero – Bologna
2003 – vincitore del concorso “fotografia sperimentale” Poesia e Immagine – Pisa
2003 – personale “IMMAGINI” galleria PiazzaAldrovandi – Bologna
2004 – collettiva “GRUNGE ART” galleria La Spina – Pisa
2004 – personale “ALTER EGO” al FelliniScalino 5 – Ravenna
2004 – personale “ALTER EGO” Oltrecafe’ – Modena
2005 – personale “INFERNI” galleria StileLibero – Bologna
2005 – collettiva “SUMMERTIME” Galleria D’Arte 18 – Bologna
2005 – collettiva “INCONTRI 2005” Centro di Arte Moderna – Pisa
2005 – MALPENSA ARTE FIERA – c/o Galleria D’Arte 18
2006 – VISAGE – c/o Galleria Immagini – Cremona
2006 – presente a VERNICE ART FAIR – Forlì
2006 – “TAROCCHI i 22 arcani maggiori” c/o GALLERIA LA FORNACE – Rastignano
2006 – “IL BIANCO E IL NERO” – c/o Galleria GARD – Roma
2006 – “ARTEARREDO” Galleria d’Arte 18 via San Felice 18 Bologna
2006 – “I SEGNI DEL NUOVO MILLENNIO” Sala Eventi della Mondadori – San Marco Venezia
2006 – “CONTEMPORANEA” salone d’arte moderna Forlì
2006 – “DE HUMANA NATURA” Galleria d’Arte IL CEPPO Abbadia San Salvatore (SI)
2007 – “I LUOGHI DELL’ANIMA” Galleria VIAMAESTRA 114 Poggibonsi (SI)
2007 – StArt Biennale P.zza San Marco, 1345 – Venezia
2007 – Padova ART FAIR – Prato della Valle Padova
2007 – ArtePortici – Strada Maggiore Bologna
2007 – StArt 3 P.zza San Marco, 1345 – Venezia
2007 – CONTEMPORANEA ART FAIR – Forlì
2007 – SECRET ART FAIR – Berlin
2007 – L’Ibridazione/Libri d’Azione – c/o GALLERIA LA FORNACE – Rastignano Bologna
2008 – Tickl-Magazine #3 – Belgium
2008 – PosSesso CORPO & OSSESSIONI – Venezia
2008 – NU – PhoTO35 – Torino
2008- LE CITTA’ IN VISIBILI*O – Loggia Della Fornace – Bologna
2008 – LETTURA FRESCA – Museo Medievale – Bologna
2009 – UN GIRO DI DANZA – GALLERIA LA FORNACE – Rastignano Bologna
2009 – PRIVATE POLAROID – Spazio TREVES – Bologna
2009 – Fantomas Omaggio a Magritte – Fantomars Bologna
2010 – VERNICE ART FAIR – Forlì
2010 – GENTLEMAN TAKE POLAROIDS – Mestre VE
2010 – NO SPACE – Fantomars Bologna
2011 – POLAROID ANDROID – Venezia
2011 – ANALFABET ART – Quartu CA
2011 – VERNICE ART FAIR – Forlì
2011 – LISBOA CONNECTION – Lisbona
2012 – VERNICE ART FAIR – Forlì
2012 – MEMENTO – Treviso
2012 – MEMENTO – Padova
2013 – CORPI E ANTICORPI – SIFEST Savignano Rubicone
2013 – VERNICE ART FAIR – Forlì
2014 – PROJECT 192 – Madrid
2014 – PROJECT 192 – Roma
2015 – VERNICE ART FAIR – Forlì
2015 – MOTEL STORIES – Montelimar FR
2015 – MINNESOTA 051 – Santevincenzi Bologna
2016 – NON RACCONTARMI IL TUO SILENZIO – Lavi Roma
2017 – NON RACCONTARMI IL TUO SILENSIO – Spazio Project Bologna
2018 – EXPOLAROID – Nimes FR
2018 – TRIESTE PHOTO FRINGE – GalleriaPoncielli Trieste
2019 – MOTEL STORIES – BARCELLONA Pola Festival ES
2020 – POLAROID ART – Rimini
2020 – POLAROID ART ITALY – Sarezzo BS
2023 – POLAROID FESTIVAL – Parigi
2023 – HEMINGWAY CAFE’ – Jesi AN
2023 – CASTELLO DI DOZZA – Dozza Imolese BO

Reviews

“In the case of Daniele Pezzoli the term photographer appears reductive, as his production is unique and outside the classical schemes. His works are the result of innumerable contaminations between photography and painting, passing through the chemical processing of his shots, such as the polaroids worked manually with complex processes. juggler of photographic art. An artist in the most complete, shy and ingenious sense, who deserves extreme attention for the quality and originality of his photographs.”
Patrizia Galia

“Her world is fascinating, mysterious and unpredictable. His way of photographing and processing certainly reflects the artistic experience gained during his youth studies and, of course, from his subsequent artistic career. One feels, one perceives, in all his Visions, an attention that has something material. It is difficult to distinguish where photography begins and ends and where it joins with the experience of drawing and painting. This image is very particular which, in addition to an extraordinary emotional charge, denotes a great ability to manage spaces: a veil torn, impalpable and torn by time, asymmetrically frames an unlikely diviner in the guise of a young contemporary woman. The color becomes strong but discreet: a strange but very successful combination between the chromatic intensity given only by some now “mythical” films and the glazes given by a great watercolorist. And, again, the choice of a “renewed” Polaroid format, an element that distinguishes much of his artistic production, perhaps, becomes a reference to something that in fact, and traditionally, distinguishes a unique work. I like to think of this and his other works as unique works, naturally reproduced in large format. This young and mysterious diviner lives between dream and reality: the imperceptible and impalpable thread that binds these two dimensions is Daniele’s imaginary world.”
Iaia Galliani

“The gaze is lucid, in the full awareness of those who know the many aspects of the art of the nude, especially in terms of an aesthetic crossed by the innocence of those who ask questions, but do not formulate judgments. A note of voyeurism, certainly, which accentuates more the eroticism and aesthetic beauty, the plastic strength and the delicacy, the analysis of the shapes and the expressiveness of the bodies., Which emerge from these particular and unusual Polaroids elaborated by totally by hand. The fundamental aspect of this work carried out around the female body seems to be the absolute respect for beauty, understood not only as a magnet able to attract the viewer’s gaze, but also, and above all, as a container of an unfathomable and metaphysical mystery: that of life, with a hint of very healthy irony.”
Elisabetta Dall’Olio

Reference galleries:

Civati Arte
Via Fiori Oscuri 3 – 20121 Milano
+39 3757486814

The ArtApartment – Napoli

Contemporary Art Museum – Teano CE