Michele Zaza (born in Molfetta, 1948) is one of the most authoritative and original figures in Italian conceptual art and international photography of the second half of the 20th century. His research, initiated in the early 1970s, is distinguished by a philosophical and anthropological inquiry that utilizes the photographic medium not merely as a tool for documentation, but as a space for the revelation of being and the sacred. Trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he attended the sculpture course led by Marino Marini, Zaza graduated in 1971. This plastic background is fundamental to understanding his production: while choosing photography and video, his work maintains a strong volumetric and spatial quality. The body and the face become “scul...> Read more