Lorena La Grassa Conde
United States of America
12 Works
Artist Member since 2008 Most popular works
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| A Life In The Wind | The Wind
air in the hair, hands in the air
Air and body
life in the air, in the wind
fast thoughts like the wind
Desire escaping
fast, fast, fast,
everything is a shot of life
a snapshot of love
Love, the only key
Fast is the heart,
fast the rhythm of your breath
Breath, the only key
pure breath like the crystal water in Vieques
Easy reading of an existence
You: the only grasping element
Your body: your house
You: your soul
A powerful land,
crucial point of Nature
She shows her beauty
She shows her rage
sweet and cruel mother
She is a pure diamond
Voices are screaming her fury
Voices are facing her fight
Taking the best, living the rest
the rest of a heart
enough to build an other life
Human and simple
Simple idea of
what is life, what death is
But life will never end
and death is just a world
like in a poem a simple dot.
And here I am again
with my fast breath
my fast heart
in this fast race of this immortal life
A life in the wind.
| | BIO | Lorena La Grassa started as a self-taught photographer at the age of 18. After two years of experience in the photojournalism field of her native city, Palermo, she moved to Rome to attend a photography school, (Istituto Europeo di Design) for three years learning the art and technique of large format cameras and studio lighting. Soon, La Grassa became active in fine art photography, having her first solo show at the age of 19. Many shows have followed since in Italy and USA.
At the age of 22 she came under contract with the French stock photography agency PIX. She still collaborates with them.
In 1995 she received a fellowship from her Alma Mater, after which she started her career as a still life photographer working with advertising agencies and private companies.
At the age of 26 she decided to move to USA to broaden her professional and technical knowledge. Since then she as been working in editorial, advertising, web-sites and fine art.
In 1998 La Grassa started to working in PR for a photography gallery in New York. Six months later she became director of the same gallery until 2000.
Her work as photographer and curator has been reviewed in several national and international publications, such as, Zoom International, Professional Photographer (USA) and Gente di Fotografia (Italy).
Today she works as an independent curator and free-lance commercial and fine art photographer.
| | RESUME | LORENA LA GRASSA
EXIBITIONS AND AWARDS
2000 Galleria dell’Immagine, Palazzo Gambalunga, Musei Comunali di Rimini, Studio d’Autore, Percorsi Trasversali, Oct/Nov, Italy
2000 Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Roma, Foto Esordio, Studio d’Autore, Percorsi Trasversali, January.
1999 Goldstrom Gallery, Eyewitness, Street-Scapes, Dicember, NYC
1999 Camera Club, Intreccio Immaginario, Granelli, October, NYC
1999 Galleria Prati, Street-Scapes, September-October. Palermo, Italy
1999 Uma Gallery (New York), The Garden Book
1998 Museo Nazionale della fotografia (Brascia, Italy), Studio d’Autore, Percorsi trasversali, October.
1998 Art space Tino Cosma, Italian Cultural Institute
(New York City) Les Jardins de Bagatelle, Creatures
Gallery Taranto, Italian Cultural Institute (New York
City) Vista, a photographic Study of Italy, Granelli. May/June
1997 Art Space of “Café Diem” (Atlanta, GA) Granelli,
1993 KERMESSE: La Fotografia a Palermo
(Tourism Council, Palermo, Italy) Granelli.
1992 Circolo degli Artisti Gallery: I linguaggi dell’obiettivo,
Dittici, (Rome, Italy)
1992 La Vetrina Gallery: benefit exhibition for the
Giornata Mondiale di Lotta contro l’AIDS’92
(World Day Against AIDS 92) Dittici (Rome, Italy)
1991 Zelig: Personal Exhibition (Palermo, Italy)
1996 Special Prize of University of Bologna (Italy) for
the best Internet Advertising Campaign: Flashnet
1994-95 Recipient of the European Institute of Design Fellowship.
1989 First Prize for the 1989 Windsurf World
Championship Photocontest.
ARTICLES
Gente di Fotografia. Lorena La Grassa. Italy. Fall issue, 2001
La Voce di Rimini, I dettagli in primo piano, Studio d’Autore, Percorsi Trasversali, Italy. October 28, 2000
Gionale di Sicilia, La Sicilia e I suoi figli: quando la foto riesce a raccontarli in un dettaglio, Studio d’Autore, Percorsi Trasversali,Italy. October 28, 00
Romagna Corriere di Rimini, I percorsi trasversali di Lorena, Studio d’Autore, Percorsi Trasversali, Italy. October 28, 2000
Professional Photographer, Photo-Progression, USA. May-June 2000.
D di Repubblica, Agenda, Street-Scapes, Italy. September 28. 1999
Il Maditerraneo, Immagini di fine millennio, Street-Scapes, Italy. Sept. 28, 99
Centonove, Percezione d’immagine, Street-Scapes, Italy. Oct.10,1999
Sicilia Tempo, Schegge di vita, Street-Scapes, Italy. Sept./Oct. ‘99
Oggi Sicilia, Quegli sguardi sulla citta’, Street-Scape, Italy. October 06, ‘99
La Sicilia, I viaggi geografici dell’anima e della mente, Street-Scapes , Italy, September 24, 1999.
Giornale di Sicilia, Prati clic, America e percezione, Steet-Scapes, Italy 24/9/9
Zoom International, Breath of Life, March-April 1999
Professional Photographer, Breath of Life, USA. January 1999
Giornale di Brescia, Studio D’Autore,
(Italy), November 1998
Photography in New York, May-June 1998.
Camera View, Vista: Three views of Italy, USA. May-June 1998.
Italia Magazine, Italy with a view, USA. June-July 1998. Zoom International, Vision of North America, July-August 1998.
America Oggi, Italie in "Vista", USA. June 1998.
Oggi Sicilia, Italy. July 1998
Il Mediterraneo, Italy. September 1996.
Kermesse Catalogue. Italy. 1993.
Reflex, Immagini da un promontorio, Italy June 1992.
Giornale di Sicilia, November Italy 1989.
COLLECTIONS
Museo Nazionale della Fotografia, Cine Foto Club, Brescia, Italy.
Uma Gallery, New York City.
Museo dell’Immagine Fotografica e delle Arti Visuali, Universita’ di Torvergata, Rome, Italy.
Palazzo Ziino, Palermo, Italy.
La Vetrina. Rome, Italy.
Private collections.
EDUCATION
1993-94 Laboratorio Città e Territorio di Ispica (Siracusa, Italy) Corso di Rilevamento di Beni Architettonici
(Course on Surveying Historic Architecture)
1990-93 Istituto Europeo di Design (Rome, Italy)
Degree on Advanced Photography
1985-89 Maturita’ Linguistica (Palermo) Language Diploma, English and French
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