Luciano D’Inverno was born in Acerra (Naples) in 1967. In the early nineties he moved to Naples where he graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts. In those years he specialized in advertising photography, espercially jewelry starting his on going collaboration, with the most prestigious national and international magazines in the sector. At the same time he became interested in landscape and research photography, paying particular attention to the morphology of peripheral places and the phenomenology of the gaze in the vision of space.
In 1993 he began an intense collaboration with the art, photography historian and critic Ennery Taramelli hence in 2003 the publication Vesevo (Edizioni IntraMoenia) was born and in 2007 Campi Flegrei – Qui i piedi non si posano per terra (Edizioni IntraMoenia), with texts by Ennery Taramelli and Olga Scotto di Vettimo. In the same year the work was presented at the PAN (Palazzo Arti Napoli), in Naples.
He has exhibited in several solo and group exhibitions, including in 2008 Vita Fantasma at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan; in 2009 at the Galleria 24 in Naples, in an exhibition together with Araky, Yokosuka, Zaza, he exhibited his photographic work Viaggio in Europa; in 2011 in Alessandria he participated in the Biennale of contemporary video-photography curated by Sabrina Raffaghello; in 2019 at the Royal Palace of Caserta he exhibited Quattro Tempi, curated by Gabriella Ibello, with the the catalogue published by Arte’m, Naples. His latest project, commissioned by the REGGIA DI CASERTA, Royal Palace of Caserta for the 250th anniversary of the death of Luigi Vanvitelli, was among the winners of Strategia Fotografia 2022, a call promoted by the General Directorate of Contemporary Creativity of the Ministry of Culture for the promotion of fine art photography. He is one of the two authors of the exhibition “Visioni” with the projects: “Attraversamenti” by Luciano D’Inverno and “Genius et Loci – La drammaturgia dello sguardo” by Luciano Romano which tell the story of the work, the creative genius and the enlightened ingenuity of Luigi Vanvitelli, at the Grand Gallery of the Royal Palace of Caserta (Caserta 29 February 13 October 2023) curated by Gabriella Ibello with the catalogue published by Arte’m.
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Gallura: the eye of the Shaman
This is in Sardinia in the upper part of the region where there are still uncontaminated places.
Getting closer to that vision of the paintings of the end of the 1700s where you could feel the tension of the birth of photography.
In ancient times this was a favorite place for the Shaman, a fertile and energetic place, a place shrouded in silence and distant memories.
Naples North East
Once upon a time, but not so long ago, you could bathe in these rivers. It was a very fertile land. Today what remains of Campania Felix it has transformed into an industrial area which, in fact, has buried the natural vision of the landscape, leaving us with the magnificent memory of ghosts of a bygone era.
4 TEMPOS
The landscape of the park and the English gardens of the Royal Palace of Caserta: this time through the different gaze of contemporary photography. A choral project which shows how Luciano D’Inverno’s interest in the landscape is an integral part of the transformation of nature in perfect harmony with his inner transformation
Campi Flegrei
Embarked on this journey trying replicate a vision of an uncontaminated, idealistic imaginary (working better at night), volcanic places between the sea and stagnant
waters like those of Lake A'verno which for modern critics represents the theater of development of the Nekyia, that is, the land of the dead
.....and in this way see the Elysian fields....
(Virgil,Aeneid,vi,229-230;trans. A.Caro)
CROSSINGS
One of the two authors invited by the Royal Palace of Caserta for the great exhibition VISIONS in the spaces of the Grand Gallery of the Royal Palace of Caserta. The exhibition of the projects “Attraversamenti (Crossings)” by Luciano D’Inverno and “Genius et Loci – The dramaturgy of the gaze” by Luciano Romano opened on 1 March and ended on 13 October 2024
This photographic journey starts from Monte Taburno and ends with the hole between the Bosco San Silvestro and the tower of the Royal Palace of Caserta park.
It is the flow of water along the conduit, and it is Vanvitelli’s steps as he searches for it, it is the bridges that unite the mountains and metaphorically it is also the author’s gaze that crosses the optical camera. Visualizing the landscape that Luigi Vanvitelli saw and crossed over the course of the nine years spent on the completion of the Carolino Aqueduct, an engineering feat experienced as a challenge. Accepting this same challenge in the contemporary world, and making a personal journey of the gaze through the valley and mountains, woods and rivers, until reaching the forum in the Bosco di San Silvestro; both the starting arrival points, absolute metaphor of the act of looking through.