Filippo Tommasoli is a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in 1990 in Verona, Italy. He began working as a professional photographer in the family photography studio, Studio Tommasoli (active since 1906), where he built his experience in digital and analog photography, combining the study of new technologies with that of traditional processes. Parallel to his professional activity, he immediately began to explore the artistic expressive potential of photographic language, dwelling on its semiotic and philosophical peculiarities (in 2015 he graduated in philosophy of language with a thesis entitled "Photography: a way of world-making. A philosophical analysis of photographic language").
His artistic research focuses mainly on photographic language and its grammar, with photographic and videographic experiments and multimedia installations, in which he seeks to explore the relationship between reality, truth and representation. He is among the winners of the "New Post Photography Award" 2022 (MIA Photo Fair), and was selected by the Malerba Foundation for the photographic exhibition "Miradas Compartidas," Havana, Cuba, November 2022. In March 2023, he exhibited about ten of his works at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York. He is among the finalists of Combat Prize 2023.
Recent exhibitions:
2019, Possible Landscapes, Fonderia XX.9, Verona;
2019, Grenze - Arsenali Fotografici, Verona;
2019, "The Art of Memory",Gran Guardia, Verona;
2019, “Self-Portrait of the Artist as a young man,” multimedia installation, off section of Art Verona;
2020, "And of the dewy taste of stone," Gran Guardia, Verona;
2022, Mia Photo Fair - New Post Photography Award;
April 2022, “Photogenesis. Photographic language beyond reality and representation”, Habitat 83, Verona. Exhibiting artists: Sirio Tommasoli, Pietro Privitera, Silvio Wolf, Chiara Arturo, Alessandro Valeri, J&Peg, Marco Rossetti, Filippo Tommasoli. Curator: Annalisa Ferraro;
July 2022, “The Void”, Magazzini Del Sale, Venice. Among the artists in the exhibition: Jannis Kounellis, Carla Accardi, J&PEG, Alessandro Valeri. Curators: Alessandro Valeri, Annalisa Ferraro, Michela Barausse.
November 2022, “Miradas Compartidas”, Cuba, Havana, Palacio del Lombillo. Exhibition organized by Fondazione Malerba as part of the Havana Photo Library's "Noviembre Fotografico." Curators: Mino Di Vita (Italy) and Alain Cabrera (Cuba).
December 22, 2022 - January 12, 2023, Progress. On contemporary and future society, Millepiani Gallery, Rome.
Feb. 7-17, 2023, “Migration and the shifting borders”, Millepiani Gallery, Rome (LoosenArt Magazine).
March 6-May 15, 2023: “A Century of women”, Italian Cultural Institute, New York.
April 2023,
Corpi che appartengono al vento, Isolo17 Gallery, Verona, curated by Silvia Concari. Show with Andreas Senoner and Michele Parisi.
June 2023,
Combat Prize, Finalist with the artwork “Don’t Make Up”, Giovanni Fattori Museum, Livorno.
