Sirio Tommasoli is a visual artist (photography, video-art and installations) since 1970, with publications and shows in Italy and abroad.Sirio Tommasoli took a degree in sociology, he was Formerly Professor of Photography at the Cignaroli Academy of Art and editor of Anterem, the poetic research magazine.
His works are owned by public and private collections.
Some of his solo exhibitions:
1980 – Sirio Tommasoli, Schloß Hohenheim, Stuttgart, catalogue with essays by Ekkehard Henschke and Sirio Tommasoli;
1981 – Le forme della violenza, installation, Galleria Fotografis, Bologna, depliant with an essay by Ando Gilardi;
1983 – Prospettive ambigue per figure dinamiche, installation, in “Fotografia come segno cercato”, Cappella di San Francesco, Sorrento (NA), catalogue with essays by Italo Zannier, Ando Gilardi, Giuseppe Turroni;
1987 – Il mio aquilone, Galleria S. Fedele, Milano, depliant with an essay by Attilio Colombo;
1991 – Il cielo di Maria F., Galleria Il Diaframma, Milano, catalogue with an essay by Eugenio Miccini;
1994 – Il cielo di Maria F., Studio La Città, Verona, catalogue with an essay by Eugenio Miccini and depliant with an essay by Giorgio Cortenova;
1999 – Stanze, Studio La Città, Verona, catalogue with essays by Peter Weiermair e Luigi Meneghelli;
2004 – Writing light waves, installation, in “Disegni del Pensiero”, Società Letteraria – Verona Poesia, Verona, catalogue with essays by Flavio Ermini e Silvia Ferrari;
2007 – Oltre l’Argento, Centro Internazionale di Fotografia Scavi Scaligeri, Verona, catalogue with essays by Luigi Meneghelli;
2008 – Oltre l’Argento, Photobiennale 2008, Mosca, catalogue by Olga Sviblova;
2012 – Sirio Tommasoli, MIA Milan Image Art Fair 2012, catalogue by Fabio Castelli with essays by Eugenio Miccini and Sirio Tommasoli.
Some exhibitions which he participated:
1981 – “12 Italian Photographers”, with the work “Il mio aquilone”, Italian Culture Institute, New York, catalogue by Monas Hierogliphica;
1981 – “Fotografia Anno Zero”, with the installation “Il volo dei gabbiani”, SICOF – Sezione Culturale, Milano, catalogue with essays by Lanfranco Colombo e Ando Gilardi;
1984 – “Cara Giulietta”, with the works “Romeo and Juliet”, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, catalogue by Giorgio Cortenova;
1987 – “Rain B&W”, with the installation “Prospettive ambigue per figure dinamiche”, SICOF – Sezione Culturale, Milano, catalogue by Lanfranco Colombo;
1988 – “Fiction-trame-récit”, with works from the series “La fotografia fotografata”, Biennale Internationale pour la Photographie d’Art et de Recherche, Germs, Paris, catalogue with essays by Ciro Bruni, Filiberto Menna, Christian Metz, Gérard Wajemann;
1990 – “Figlio, figlia. Cinema, video, immagini”, with the installations “Domani 13 gennaio 1990” and “Domenica 13 maggio 1990”, Lazzaretto di Luigi Vanvitelli, Ancona, catalogue with an essay by Fabiola Brugiamolini;
1992 – “A proposito della Fotografia Italiana”, with the work “19 ottobre”, Musée de L’Elisée, Lausanne, catalogue with an essay by Charles-Henri Favrod;
1993 – “7×7 Vizi capitali”, with the work “Accidia”, Archivio di Stato, Milano, catalogue with essays by Omar Calabrese, Carlo Ferrario, Giovanni Mariotti, Bruno Munari, Roberto Mutti, Gianangelo Polo, Ugo Volli;
1993 – “Fotografi italiani: diario immaginario di Lanfranco Colombo”, with the work “19 ottobre”, Civica Galleria d’Arte Moderna Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, catalogue with essays by Carlo Bertelli, Jean Claude Lemagny;
1993 – “La pipa meccanica”, with the installation “Italya mia”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti, Verona, catalogue with essays by Giovanni Anceschi, Giorgio Cortenova, Giò Ferri, Pietro Montefusco;
1994 – “Purgatorio”, with the installation “Il giorno e la notte di Viola D.”, Galleria San Fedele, Milamo, catalogue with essays by Gian Antonio Dell’Acqua, Marina Stasio e Roberto Mutti;
1994 – “Basically Silver”, Studio La Città, Verona, Depliant with an essay by Michael Haggerty;
1994 – “Oltre la cornice”, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, catalogue with an essay by Roberto Mutti;
1997 – “Portraits of Interiors”, with the work “Stanze del rito”, 3rd Los Angeles International Biennial Art Invitational, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, catalogue by William Turner e Robert Berman;
2001 – “Desire”, with a work from the series “Scritture donna”, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, catalogue with an essay by Peter Weiermair;
2002 – “Desire”, with a work from the series “Scritture donna”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, catalogue with an essay by Peter Weiermair;
2005 – “Corti e videoart di autori internazionali”, with the works “Red waves” and “Light waves”, Biennale Anterem di Poesia, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona;
2008 – “Love. Frammenti visivi di un discorso amoroso”, with a work from the series “Scritture donna”, Gallerie Civiche d’Arte Contemporanea di Palazzo Ducale, Pavullo nel Frignano (MO), catalogue with essays by Paolo Donini, Daniela Del Moro, Flavio Ermini, Sirio Tommasoli, Claudio Composti.
His works have been presented and reviewed by, among others: Claire Bonney, Cinzia Busi Thompson, Attilio Colombo, Lanfranco Colombo, Giorgio Cortenova, Flavio Ermini, Charles-Henri Favrod, Silvia Ferrari, Gio Ferri, Ando Gilardi, Alberta Gnugnoli, Michael Haggerty, Ekkehard Henschke, Michael Köhler, Jean Claude Lemagny, Silvano Martini, Luigi Meneghelli, Eugenio Miccini, Alessandro Mozzambani, Roberto Mutti, Maurizio Rebuzzini, Giorgio Trevisan, Giuseppe Turroni, Peter Weiermair, Italo Zannier.
Some of his publications:
the signed portfolio “Immagini”, limited edition, critical essay by Ando Gilardi, Verona, 1981;
on “Progresso Fotografico 10”, critical essay by Alberta Gnugnoli, Milano, 1981;
on “European Photography”, critical essay by Michael Köhler, Göttingen, 1982;
on “L’occhio fotografico”, by Italo Zannier e Alessandro Mozzambani, Verona, 1983;
on “Cara Giulietta”, by Giorgio Cortenova, Venezia, 1984;
on “SICOF ’85 – I maestri del ritratto”, by Alinari, Milano, 1985;
on “Photo Italia”, essay by Roberto Mutti, Milano, 1988;
on “Polaroid, Landscape”, Milano, 1988;
The book “Cosmi di Gino Bogoni”, Verona, 1988;
The book “Uomini e cavalli”, with Alessandra Salardi, Verona 1989;
The book “Strade”, with Alessandra Salardi, Verona, 1990;
on “Nuovi Orizzonti, Dove va la fotografia?”, Milano, 1990;
on “HQ”, Heidelberg, 1991;
The book “Il cielo di Maria F.”, with a critical essay by Eugenio Miccini, Verona, 1991;
The book “Le forme del pane nelle valli dell’Adige”, with Alessandra Salardi, Verona, 1992;
on “Fotografi italiani: diario Immaginario di L. Colombo”, by Carlo Bertelli and Mario Cresci, essays by Carlo Bertelli and Jean Claude Lemagny, Bergamo, 1993;
on “7×7 Vizi capitali”, by Roberto Mutti, essays by Omar Calabrese, Bruno Munari, Roberto Mutti …, Milano, 1993;
on “La pipa meccanica”, by Giovanni Anceschi and Gio Ferri, Verona, 1993
on “Purgatorio”, by Marina De Stasio and Roberto Mutti, Milano, 1994;
on “Kodak, Il fotografo professionista”, Milano, 1994;
on “Poesia visiva e dintorni”, critical essay by Eugenio Miccini, Firenze, 1995;
on “Photonews”, by Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, 1996;
on “Verona, un secolo d’immagini nell’Archivio Tommasoli”, essay by Roberto Mutti, Verona, 1996;
on “Los Angeles Times”, Los Angeles, 1997;
on “Ante Rem”, by Flavio Ermini with a preface by Maria Corti, Verona, 1998;
on “Il giornale dell’arte”, Torino, 1999;
The book “Veronafiere, a century of progress”, with Alessandra Salardi, Verona, 1999;
on “Verso l’inizio”, by Andrea Cortellessa, Flavio Ermini, Gio Ferri with a preface by Edoardo Sanguineti, Verona, 2000;
The book “Palazzo Leoni Montanari”, with Alessandra Salardi, Verona, 2000;
The book “Ramandolo sui Colli Orientali del Friuli” with Alessandra Salardi, Verona, 2001;
on “Desire”, by Peter Weiermair, Zurigo, 2001;
The book “Un ponte di ponti – Da Venezia a Milano”, with Gabriele Basilico, Giuliano Francesconi, Alessandra Salardi, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), 2002;
on “Verona Poesia”, by Alessandra Salardi, essays by Flavio Ermini e Silvia Ferrari, Verona, 2004;
on “Convergenze”, numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Bergamo;
on “Anterem”, numbers 41, 43, 45, 47, 51, 53, 60, Verona;
on “Oltre l’Argento”, by Luigi Meneghelli, Verona, 2007;
on “Fotoit”, essay by Cinzia Busi Thompson, Torino, 2007;
on “Love – frammenti visivi di un discorso amoroso”, by Paolo Donini e Daniela Del Moro, Pavullo nel Frignano (MO), 2008;
The book “Saint Petersburg”, in Fine-Art limited edition, with Alessandra Salardi and Filippo Tommasoli, Saint Petersburg – Verona, 2008;
The book “I Volti dell’Opera”, with Alessandra Salardi and Filippo Tommasoli, Verona, 2015
on “Lo sguardo innocente”, by Filippo Tommasoli, Verona, 2016.