BIOGRAPHY

Paolo Buroni

Brussels

San Siro Stadium

Italian Villa

Winter Olympic Games Torino

Urbino Palazzo Ducale

F.I.A.P Award 1995 (Fédération Intérnational de l'Art Photographique)

Rotondi Award 2008 (special award for the comunication)

ADI Design Award 2008

 

Paolo Buroni lives in Cagli in the province of Pesaro where he was born in 1954. He works in his home-studio, midway between Gubbio and Urbino. He perfected this form of expression in a variegated career which started with photography and finally lead him to computer art.


He began as a free-lance photo-reporter. Starting in 1980 he worked with the Grazia Neri and Focus Team photography agency, realising numerous reporting services at home and abroad, participating in photographic exhibitions and events. His images have been displayed in the Photography Museum of Lausanne. In 1995, at the Budapest International Festival of Multimedia Arts, he won the FIAP award (International Federation of Photographic Arts). In 2008 he won the Rotondi Award (special Award in communications) and the ADI Designer award for the event in Beijing created on the CCTV Tower.


From photography, through the application of the first digital processing methods, he went on to computer art and then to his first multivision shows, culminating in the realisation of large multimedia installations in which music, images and architecture come together in a single language used to create virtual Environments.
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An American critic has described him as "the urban invader", for his impulse to "invade" urban space - buildings, squares - with images.


. This objective is not so far-fetched when we consider that for the Inter-Milan Derby soccer match at the S. Siro stadium he created one of the greatest multi-vision spectacles ever in a stadium with 10,000 square meters of images.

"Urban invader" because Multivision Image Designer Paolo Buroni's most constant and significant characteristic is the use of the three spatial dimensions and the interaction between projected images and architectural structures which become an integral part of the event.

"Almost immediately, my artistic goal was to make the images jump off of the screen and invade the surrounding architectural space."

Among his artistic endeavours, we note his collaboration with Pier Paolo Calzolari at the Calder Atelier in France as well as his work with the artists Arnaldo Pomodoro, Gaslini, Juri Cane, and Marco Paolini in Carsulae (archaeological site with Roman ruins, near Terni) in which for the first time a multi-vision production was entirely projected on the trees surrounding the archaeological site.

Today he has been engaged for the most important and challenging international outdoor productions of multi-vision images: from the G8 ship to St. Peter's Square in Rome, from the Coex Centre in Seoul to the stadiums of Istanbul and Milan, from Ferrari to the most important RAI productions like the 2003 Sanremo Festival and Miss Italy in the World.

In the world of sports, we note the official presentation of the new CONI trademark, the events created and produced for the Audi Sports Awards and the multi-vision shows during the 2004 Montecarlo Formula 1 Gran Prix for the Ferrari-Marlboro Team.

In 2004 he created another artistically challenging production, by projecting multi-vision images on the Marmore Waterfalls during an Archie Shepp concert.

In the same year the Venice Biennale exhibition, has commissioned him a series of multivisions, projecting on the façade of the Casinò during the 61th edition of the International Show of Cinema art.

Paolo Buroni lives in Cagli, in the province of Pesaro, where he was born in 1954. He works in his home studio in the hills between Gubbio and Urbino. He began his career as a free-lance reportage photographer in 1980 working for about 10 years with the Grazia Neri and Focus Team photographic agency. He put together numerous reportage services for the Grazia Neri agency, published in national and foreign magazines, and participated in photographic exhibitions and events.

His images are on display at the Lausanne Photography Museum. With the advent of the first digital computer processes, he passed from photography to computer art and then on to his first multi-vision montages to finally arrive at the creation of huge multimedia installations where music, images and architecture come together to form one artistic language.

Since 1990, he has exclusively dedicated his work to projected multimedia art and creating numerous installations for international artistic multi-vision festivals and architectural multi-projections like the "Mutazioni" event, exclusively realised with computer processed images and the installation of 25 projectors in the courtyard of the Vicenti Mareri building at the International Rieti Festival.

. His "multi-projections" have been presented at numerous manifestations in many different countries, including the "Mediale" in Nürnberg (Germany), Linz (Austria), Budapest (Hungary), Istanbul, Paris and Seoul.
In 1995, at the International Festival of Multimedia Arts in Budapest he was presented with the F.I.A.P. award.

In Gubbio at the Palazzo Ducale the permanent installation of 3D life-size hologram of Duke Federico da Montefeltro