GM Sacco is a university professor of computer science, who resigned to devote himself full-time to his artistic interests. He has been photographing for a long time, first on film, then digitally and finally digitally and on large format film....
Read MoreGM Sacco is a university professor of computer science, who resigned to devote himself full-time to his artistic interests. He has been photographing for a long time, first on film, then digitally and finally digitally and on large format film. His interest for art is not limited to photography and he was the publisher of an acclaimed CD-ROM series on painters of the Italian Renaissance, which included the first hypertextual edition of Vasari’s Lives of Artists.
He likes to think of himself as an image peddler rather than a photographer and believes that painters, from Duccio to contemporaries, have a significant influence in his work.
His works span from architecture, to abandoned decaying buildings (factories primarily), to nudes, to still life. He is especially concerned by the impermanence of things and, like Webster, is “much possessed by death”. At the same time, his works investigate metaphysics, what exists beyond our limited experience and could tame the horror of death.
In the last ten years he has won more than 70 awards in the most important international competitions, such as IPA – International Photo Awards, Tokyo Foto Awards, Fine Art Photo Awards, PX3 – Prix de la Photographie Paris. He also appeared in more than ten exhibitions in places such as Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice and Tokyo.
