Over a three-decade quest around the human figure, Fiorio’s works address the condition between reality and appearance according two complementary dialectics: vision-presence, existence and Being.
1990-2000: Works of the first decade’s focus on closed communities of men in the Western Society: widely published in magazines, Fiorio’s figures from On Men series, sum up to eight monographs and two anthology books. Over following ten years, driven by a wider humanistic insight The Gift (2000-2009) addresses earliest expressions of ritual Belief around the planet in thirty-nine countries. On April 2009 Fiorio’s book and exhibition The Gift have been granted the High Patronage of UNESCO.
Since 2010 Humanum the archaeology of Being, the third subject of one whole path of knowledge reconsiders human figurations in archaic statuary in the perception of our time. Through a museographic display revealing the transfiguration of sculptural appearance in the evolution of light, Fiorio traces the relationship between matter and form whereby photography, transcending the surface of visible representation and according to its etymological sense of light-trace, becomes the tool to face the ‘invisible figure’ of earliest human archetypes.
For this project Fiorio has worked with the National Archaeological Museum of Athens; the Acropolis Museum of Athens; the Musée du Louvre in Paris; the Iraq Museum in Baghdad; the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Wien and the National Archaeological Museum of Cyprus in Nicosia. On February 2018 the project has been presented for the first time at the College de France in Paris within the frame of the European Chair (cycle 2017-2018) of Victor Stoichita.
Founder and artistic director (2002–2013) of Reflexions Masterclass, international seminar of contemporary photography; faculty of the International Centre of Photography of New York (2007-2014), Fiorio is since 2016 Affiliate Professional of the Institute of Technology, Information, Communication and Perception of Scuola Superiore Universitaria Sant’Anna in Pisa and works to the project Humanum in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Fiorio’ books have been published in France, Italy, Germany and Greece.
EXHIBITION
Among others: Triennale di Milano, Italy; C/O Berlin, Germany; Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica, Fontana di Trevi, Rome, Italy; Maison Européenne de la Photographie MEP, Paris, France; Rencontres d’Arles, France; Parisphoto, Carrousel du Louvre; Grand Palais, Paris, France; Institute of Polytechnic, Tokyo, Japan; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, Italy; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Italy; Biennale d’Arte di Venezia 2013, Italian Pavillon, Venice, Italy; Bologna ArteFiera 2015, Italy; Biennale d’Arte di Venezia 2015 and 2016 at Padiglione Italia and Museo Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy; Iraq Museum of Baghdad 2017-2018; since May 2018 permanent exhibition at the National Museum of Samawa (Al-Warka), Iraq; Biennale of Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, 2019.
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