Visual artist Nicola Di Giorgio is the first laureate of the New Grand Tour residency at Villa Arson. He is in residence from January 8 to April 6, 2024 with the support of the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.
Nicola Di Giorgio (Palermo, 1994) lives and works between Milan and Palermo. After completing a first-level Academic Diploma in Graphic Design in 2019 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, he concluded his studies in Photography at ISIA Urbino in 2022.
Between 2018 and 2019, with the project « Undefined Space. Identity of a place », he began an observation of the urban landscape in relation to public and private society, going beyond the boundaries of dwellings. At the same time, he undertook a theoretical study of the origin and evolution of the term landscape and its relationship with photography.
Between 2020 and 2023, he realized projects such as 1000008988 and Calcestruzzo. In the latter, he deduced the correlation between art and science, consciousness and unconsciousness, image, and writing. Alongside these methodologies, he incorporated collecting and the use of archives as artistic and taxonomic research practices.
In 2022, he received the Graziadei Photography Award (8th edition), in collaboration with MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. The same year, he was a finalist in the 11th edition of the Francesco Fabbri Prize for Contemporary Arts. From 2021 to 2023, he worked as a studio manager for Francesco Jodice and, in 2023, as a co-teacher in the Master’s Degree in Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies directed by Marco Scotini at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan.
In 2023 his research was selected by CAMERA – Italian Center for Photography in Turin for the European Futures Photography programme.
His works are part of several public and private collections.
