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'I Am Gomorrah" Project Photograph - Limited Edition of 10
Photography, Giclée on Paper
Size: 33.1 W x 46.8 H x 0 D in
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About The Artwork
SALVATORE STRIANO Organised crime associate Actor I want to make one thing clear: I am an actor now. I am no longer a criminal. I paid what I had to pay. I am rehabilitated now. I did my ten years, robbery, criminal association, illegal possession of fire arms, I paid for all that. Now I wanna play. I started right in jail, with theatre workshop. Theatre helped me a lot during my time inside, it made me live life that was different from mine, made of violence and jail time. It was a way to break out of jail. How did I get in? They got me in Spain where I was hiding. I have been hiding in Spain for three years. I still remember how I left the airport in Rome. I was with my wife, I had a fake passport, I put my picture on it, but it didn’t have the stamp. Wanna know what I did? I went into a bar and got a coffee cup, I marked the bottom of the cup with ink and pressed it on the passport. It turned out crap, I didn’t trust passing check-in with that. So when I got to the airport I went straight to two policemen standing there and asked them to help as it was the first time I was taking a flight and didn’t know where to go or what to do. They were very kind, barely checked my passport and took me straight to the other side. One evening in Spain I took my wife to a restaurant to celebrate her birthday, about 20 gangsters walk in, all fugitives like me. They were just from another family. We had just finished our dinner and paid the bill, we were almost about to get up and leave. But I didn’t move. They recognised me, just like I did them. We could not go out, as I was afraid that something could happen to them after we left. Suppose a rival killer walked in after I had left and shot them... they would think I blew the whistle. So after ten minutes I was there just waiting for them to end their meal, one of the capi came up to me and said that I could go if I wanted to, they knew I was not a traitor.
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Photography:Giclée on Paper
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:10
Size:33.1 W x 46.8 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
Packaging:Ships Rolled in a Tube
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Mario Guarino moves to London in 2000 at the age of 22 from Italy to study advertising and mass communication at London College. After meeting art photographer Patrick Gorman he starts a course in photography at the Kensington & Chelsea College where subsequently he becomes Patrick's first assistant on a series of high profile assignments. Follows a period of apprenticeship and having assisted a range of international fashion photographers he makes the leap into becoming a free lance photographer with a first publication for The Face magazine. In the following years Mario works on editorial shoots and advertising campaigns for new and established fashion designers gaining the opportunity of travelling extensively and collaborating with a range of international clients in London, Moscow, Milan, Paris,Berlin and Copenhagen. In 2008 his first solo show is inaugurated in Shoreditch, East London at the Maverick Gallery with "Feminal" a controversial personal project on studies of the female body, Identity and Personality which attracted attention well beyond his entourage and a documentary for Sky Italy was shot during the preparation of the event. After that experience, while still shooting fashion, Mario becomes more and more focused on his personal portrait production which leads in 2009 to a collaboration with Bronx Productions to shoot a portraits project of real life Mafia Gangsters turned into actors with the Oscar and Golden Globe nominated movie Gomorrah. The work is based on a series of still photographs and recordings of on set conversations between Mario and the Actors which form a mixed media installation that will be shown in Italy later this year. Mario currently lives and works in London. www.marioguarino.com www.artipolis.com/marioguarino
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