Pino Musi (1958), born in Salerno, IT, lives and works in Milan and Paris. Works digital (B&W and color). Fields of activity: Architecture and Fine Art.

Biography

Pino Musi was born in Salerno 18th March 1958. He lives and works in Milan and Paris.

He has been interested in photography since an early age. By attending those places where avantgarde theatre pièces were put on, he developed a specific interest in black and white counterpoint of lights and deep shadows.

In 1997 he was invited to review and photographically interpret Le Corbusier’s modern architectural masterpiece, the Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut at Ronchamp.

In 1997 Musi received a prize for his book “Mario Botta seen by Pino Musi” (published in Stuttgart).

In 1998 Daco Verlag of Stuttgart published “Oxymoron”, which was one of the ten best art books at the 1998 Frankfurt Buchmesse.

In 2003 Musi received the Oscar Goldoni Prize for the best photography book published in Italy between 2002 and 2003 on the occasion of “Modena per la Fotografia” with “Libro”: a wonderful journey into the twists and turns of the written word.

In 2006 he was one of the artists chosen by Achille Bonito Oliva for the “Stazioni dell’Arte” project for the Naples underground.

“In Mollino’s Rooms” is the complex photographic work produced for Paris Photo 2007.

Musi investigates Mollino’s house and with his camera unveils the shadows and light via a mysterious relationship with details of fond objects. At the same time Musi digs deep into the folds of Mollino’s Polaroid by highlighting on the originals, the touch-ups Mollino made, thus producing a subtle ambiguous play between painting and photography.

Musi places the accent in these works on a completely innovative printing method, which had been developed by the artist himself.

Among his many ongoing projects is a study into the complex rapport between Nature and Science in French Guyana with the European Space Agency programmes.

Books

• 1982 Maschere e Persone
  Edizioni La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
• 1990 Watari Museum Project in Tokyo
  Watari um Editions , Tokyo
• 1996 Mario Botta seen by Pino Musi
  Premio Buchmesse Frankfurt 1997, Daco Verlag, Stuttgart
• 1997 Le Corbusier: Ronchamp
  Fidia Edizioni d’Arte, Lugano
• 1997 Emozioni di Pietra
  Skira Editore, Milano
• 1998 Oxymoron
  Premio Buchmesse Frankfurt 1999, Daco Verlag  Stuttgart
• 1999 La chiesa di San Giovanni Battista a Mogno
  Skira Editore, Milano
• 1999 Tra il Taglio e le onde
  MMMAC, Paestum
• 1999 Borromini sul lago
  Skira Editore / Accademia di Architettura, Milano, Mendrisio
• 2000 La Cathédrale d’Evry
  Skira / Seuil Ed., Milano, Parigi
• 2001 The Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center
  Skira Editore / Tel Aviv University, Milano, Tel Aviv
• 2002 Libro
  Premio Oscar Goldoni Modena 2003, Biblioteca Civica , Rovereto
• 2003 I segni
  (con Jordi Bernadò, Pino Brioschi, Andrè Morin), Gabriele Capelli, Editore, Mendrisio
• 2003 Per cammino d’ombre
  Provincia di Salerno
• 2003 Metonimie
  Edizioni Patto dell’Agro, Nocera Inf.
• 2003 Rovereto e il nuovo Polo Culturale
  Nicolodi Editore, Rovereto
• 2005 La nuova Scala
  Skira Editore, Milano
• 2005 Dan Graham: Half Square Half Crazy
  Charta, Milano
• 2007 Skolè
  Aporema per l’Arte , Napoli
• 2009 Steel City / ILVA
  Rivafire, Taranto
• 2010 Roma Antiqua
  Marilena Ferrari FMR edizioni, Bologna
• 2011 Bellezza Eterna
  Marilena Ferrari FMR edizioni, Bologna

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