Luciano Romano

The stairs and thresholds photographed by Luciano Romano are a metaphor of man's constant desire to strive for the absolute and the transcendent, to cross multiple dimensions. The stairs, as grand, articulated and imposing as they may be, preserve an intimate and direct relationship with our body, which are measured with each step taken.

works

In primo piano

Capri, Faraglioni, 2019, archival pigment print on 100% Hahnemühle cotton paper, Photo Rag Matt Baryta mounted to Dibond, 150 x 120 cm, 111 x 150 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Soglie

In primo piano

Barcelona (Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain), 2014, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Rotonda Foschini (Ferrara, Italy), 2007, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Castel del Monte (Castel del Monte, Apulia, Italy. Frederick II Holy Roman Emperor), 2014, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Comacchio (Comacchio, Italy), 2013, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Basel (Basel, Switzerland, Messeplaz. Herzog & De Meuron), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Antro della Sibilla (Cuma, Naples, Italy), 2014, archival pigment print to cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Piscina Mirabilis (Bacoli, Naples, Italy), 2013, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Piscine Romane (Fermo, Marche, Italy), 2013, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Tempio di Mercurio (Baia, Naples, Italy), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 120 cm, 80 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Tempio di Venere (Baia, Naples, Italy), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 120 cm, 80 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Hole (Naples, Italy, Chiaia Underground Station. Uberto Siola), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Dune (Milan Expo 2015, Italy. Norman Foster), 2015, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Slot (Los Angeles, USA, Disney Hall. Frank Gehry), 2018, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

San Carlo (Teatro di San Carlo, Naples, Italy), 2008, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

2020 (Vele di Secondigliano, Naples, Italy), 2020, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Scale

In primo piano

Loop#1937 (Verona, Italy, Palazzo INA. Ettore Fagiuoli), 2012, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala #1936 (Milan, Italy, Palazzo della Fontana. Rino Ferrini), 2012, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1934 I (Palermo, Italy, Posta Centrale. Angiolo Mazzoni), 2012, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala #1936 I (Rome, Italy, Quartiere Prati), 2015, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1927 I (Paris, France, Hôtel Martel. Robert Mallet-Stevens), 2015, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1927 IV (Paris, France, Hôtel Martel. Robert Mallet-Stevens), 2015, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1911 (Naples, Italy, Palazzo Mannaiuolo. Giulio Ulisse Arata), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1912 (Dům Ćerné Matky Boží, Praha, Czech Republic. Josef Gočár), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1882 (Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain, La Sagrada Familia. Antoni Gaudì), 2014, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1693 (Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain, Convento de Santo Domingo de Bonaval), 2014, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1591 I (Venice, italy, Convento della Carità, Gallerie dell’Accademia. Andrea Palladio), 2013, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Scala#1999 (Duisburg, Germany, Küppersmühle Museum. Herzog & de Meuron), 2016, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala#2016 (London, United Kingdom, Tate Modern, The Switch House. Herzog & de Meuron), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Scala#2016 (Milan, Italy, Porta Volta, Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli. Herzog & de Meuron), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 100 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Overvision

In primo piano

The Big Apple (Apple Store, 5th Avenue, New York, USA), 2010, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to diasec+dibond, 150 x 200 cm, ed. 6

The Seed Cathedral (Shanghai Expo 2010, China. Thomas Heatherwick), 2010, diptych, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to diasec+dibond, 110 x 150 cm each, ed. 6

Twist (Los Angeles, USA, Disney Hall. Frank Gehry), 2018, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Alphabet Street (Shanghai Expo 2010, China), 2010, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Horizon (Paris, France, Fondation Louis Vuitton. Olafur Eliasson), 2015, diptych, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 160 x 120 cm each, 107 x 80 cm each, ed. 6

La memoria dell’acqua (Venice, Italy), 2007, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 110 x 165 cm, ed. 6

Paris IMA (Paris, France, Institut du Monde Arabe. Jean Nouvel), 2015, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 170 x 120 cm, ed. 6

Escalier d’eau (Paris, France, Fondation Louis Vuitton. Frank Gehry), 2017, archival pigment print on cotton paper, mounted to dibond, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Videocracy

In primo piano

Insider (Naples, Italy), 2013, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Insider 2 (Naples, Italy), 2013, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

The rear window (Naples, Italy. Robert Wilson), 2007, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 110 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Palazzo Madama (Turin, Italy), 2012, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 160 x 120 cm, 107 x 80 cm, ed. 6

Tenet (Katarinahissen, Stockholm, Sweden), 2020, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 170 x 120 cm, ed. 6

Factory of the sun (56th Biennale, Venice, Italy. Hito Steyerl), 2015, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Vedrai andrà tutto bene

In primo piano

Vedrai andrà tutto bene_Palazzo Donn’Anna (Naples, Italy), 2008, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed.6

Vedrai andrà tutto bene_Pignasecca (Naples, Italy), 2008, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Vedrai andrà tutto bene_Montesanto (Naples, Italy), 2008, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

Vedrai andrà tutto bene_Galleria Umberto (Naples, Italy), 2008, archival pigment print on cotton paper, 120 x 160 cm, 80 x 107 cm, ed. 6

video

Luciano Romano – Lo sguardo obliquo
Italy, 2021, 2'

catalogue

Luciano Romano trained as a stage photographer and his first assignment, at the age of 25, was with the San Carlo Theatre in Naples and he subsequently worked with La Scala Theatre in Milan and other international stages.
Open to new photographic languages, he has received various prestigious awards such as the Atlante Italiano 003 prize, awarded by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and the Milan Triennale, as well as a nomination for the Prix BMW – Paris Photo in 2007. Several of his projects were selected for the Hasselblad Masters Awards in 2014, 2016 and 2018. He has exhibited in museums and public and private venues in Italy and abroad, including: X Venice Architecture Biennale (2006); Shanghai Universal Expo (2010); Madre Museum, Naples (2010); MAXXI Museum, Rome (2010); Fotografia Europea in Reggio Emilia (2011); Moscow Photobiennale at MAMM Museum, Moscow (2014); Castello di Postignano (2021). In recent years, he has taken part in artistic projects by Robert Wilson, Peter Greenaway and Shirin Neshat, with whom he created the installation Don’t ask where the love is gone in the Toledo-Montecalvario Station of the Naples Metro in 2013. His works are part of numerous public and private collections including the Rauschenberg Foundation in New York, the MeMus – The Museum of San Carlo, the Madre Museum in Naples, and the MAXXI Museum in Rome. In December 2019, he created Song ‘e mare, a permanent installation in the Scampia station of the Naples Art Metro. His last project Ex Novo (2022) has been exhibited at the Pio Monte della Misericordia Church in Naples.
He has been working with Studio Trisorio since 2012. Luciano Romano has an ongoing exhibition Genius et Loci - La drammaturgia dello sguardo (Genius et Loci - The Dramaturgy of the Gaze) in the Great Gallery of the Reggia di Caserta until 15 July 2024.
Luciano Romano si è formato come fotografo in ambito teatrale e ha ricevuto all’età di 25 anni il primo incarico dal Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, a cui sono seguiti quelli del Teatro alla Scala e di altri palcoscenici internazionali.
Sensibile alla ricerca sui nuovi linguaggi della fotografia, ha ottenuto prestigiosi riconoscimenti come il premio Atlante Italiano 003, conferitogli dal Ministero per i Beni Culturali e dalla Triennale di Milano e la nomination al Prix BMW – Paris Photo nel 2007. Negli anni 2014, 2016 e 2018 diversi suoi progetti sono stati selezionati per gli Hasselblad Masters Awards. Ha esposto in musei e spazi pubblici e privati in Italia e all’estero, fra cui: X Biennale Architettura di Venezia (2006); Expo Universale di Shanghai (2010); Museo Madre, Napoli (2010); Museo MAXXI, Roma (2010); Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia (2011); Moscow Photobiennale al Museo MAMM, Mosca (2014); Castello di Postignano (2021). Negli ultimi anni ha preso parte a progetti artistici di Robert Wilson, Peter Greenaway e Shirin Neshat, con la quale ha realizzato nel 2013 l’installazione Don’t ask where the love is gone nella Stazione Toledo-Montecalvario della Metropolitana di Napoli. Le sue opere fanno parte di numerose collezioni pubbliche e private tra le quali la Fondazione Rauschenberg di New York, il MeMus – Museo Memoria e Musica del Teatro di San Carlo, il Museo Madre di Napoli, il Museo MAXXI di Roma. Nel dicembre 2019 ha realizzato Song ‘e mare, installazione permanente nella stazione di Scampia della Metropolitana dell’arte di Napoli. Il suo ultimo progetto Ex Novo (2022) è stato esposto al Pio Monte della Misericordia in Napoli.
Collabora con lo Studio Trisorio dal 2012. Luciano Romano ha in corso fino al 15 luglio 2024, negli spazi della Gran Galleria della Reggia di Caserta, la mostra Genius et Loci – La drammaturgia dello sguardo.