Graciana Piaggio

Descripción del Artista

I am an artist, a photographer. I was born in Córdoba, Argentina. When I was 3 month we moved to Buenos Aires. I studied painting for more than 15 years with great masters as Carlos Gorriarena and Jorge Demirjian. For several years I studied ceramic sculpture with the recently deceased Leo Tavella. At the same time I studied watercolor, drawing, plyester resin sculpture and Art History. Six years ago I started photography. I attended to different clinics and workshops with Adriana Lestido, Juan Travnik, Valeria Bellusci, Romina Resuche, Angela Copello, among others. I believe photography is more than an esthetic work of art. It is a form of expression of our inner selves. Particulary in my case, it is the result of an internal quest of many years, after which I have come out of the dark, into the light, in the same way that my long-exposure photographies show something which cannot be seen with the naked eye. The subject of time appears in all my work. Not just time as a characteristic wich applies to photography in general, but as the issue of permanence, and also impermanence, that we found in life. My portraits want to express what remains and what does not remain after a given moment of time, particullary in part of our existance. The fact I portrait children and adolescents is because they are in a very changing period of life, which we all live as very impermanent but it also produces very permanent effects as we come out from this phase with a significant background that eventually makes us who we are.