Albano Guatti was born in Udine, Italy, in 1950. He studied Aesthetics with Ermanno Migliorini at “Università degli Studi di Firenze”, where he has collaborated in the teaching activities and graduated.
Since 1978 he lives in New York, has the double citizenship, and he works between the Us and Italy. As an artist he starts his work in the early Seventies, with visual poetry, performance art, and conceptual
photography.
From 1978 to the present, he worked with different media, like photography, installations, sculptures, robotics, drawings and collages.
He showed his work in European and American museums and galleries and he is present in different private collections. As a conceptual photographer he published sixteen book, including four about female
body.
He has been operating also as commercial photographer and he published more than twenty books about a variety of subjects, with different publishers, internationally distribuited and a number of mono-
graphies for worldwideknown companies.
Among these we remember: Montedison, Fincantieri, Citibank, Begin Say, Tencara, Lincoln Center, Berretta U.S., Iveco, Ansaldo Breda U.S., Agusta Westland, Vespa, Global Aeronautics,
Vought Aircraft
Industry, Finmeccanica, Tim, Marposs, Mep, Bulgari, Basile, Barney’s New York, Miriam Zaim, Yumy Katzura.
Major exibitions
2015 Still, NoART, Polten, Austria.
2013 The Naked & the Nude, Grafiche Dell’Artiere, Bologna, curated by Peter Weiermair.
2012 Il fuoco della Natura, Salone degli Incanti, ex Pescheria, Trieste
2011 Biennale di Venezia, Trieste.
2012 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2011 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2010 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2009 Sguardi, La fotografia del ‘900 in FVG, Ethnographic Museum, Lubljana, Croazia.
2008 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2007 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2006 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2006 Contortions, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma
2005 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2004 Nudes, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna.
2004 Arco, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Madrid.
2004 MiArt, Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano.
2004 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2003 MiArt, Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano.
2003 Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna.
2002 Desire, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna.
2001 Albano Guatti Fotografia 1974/2001, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, curated by Peter Weiermair.
2001 Chairs in Contemporary Art, Museo di Udine, curated by Agnes Kohlmeyer.
2001 Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino.
2000 Amen Fotografia, Spilimbergo, Italy
2000 Artissima, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Torino.
1997 Art Cologne, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Koln.
1997 Paris Photo, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Paris.
1997 Aspetti della nuova fotografia italiana, a cura di Italo Zannier.
1997 Guatti, Etkin, Fitzgerald, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste.
1995 Art is life Palazzo Broggi, Milano, Italy. In collaboration with Susan Etkin.
1994 Go downstairs diagonally, curated by Paul McCarthy, Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles.
1993 Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Accademia Carrara, Bergamo.
1992 Il Diaframma, Milano, Italy.
1992 Poliset, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy.
1987 Torino Fotografia 1987, Diaframma 20 anni, Torino.
1985 Autoritratto d’autore, Festival dei due Mondi, Spoleto.
1985 Galleria Luisella D’Alessandro, Torino.
1985 Expo fotografia 1985, Bari.
1984 Palazzo Massari, Ferrara.
1984 Rencontre Internationales de la Photographie, Arles. France.
1984 Fondation Nationale de la Photographie, Lion, France.
1984 Photo America, Assessorato alla Cultura di Genova.
1981 Paule Pia Gallery, Antwerpen.
1980 Sala Polivalente del Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara.
1980 80 Langton Gallery, S.Francisco.
1980 L.A.I.C.A., Los Angeles,
1979 Museo d’arte Moderna di Ancona.
1979 Autunno musicale di Como, Como.
1979 Artist’s Space, New York.
1978 Galleria Mastrogiacomo, Padova.
1978 Ursula Krinzinger Gallery, Innsbruk, Austria.
1978 A Tower in the Auditorium of P.S.1, P.S.1, New York.
1977 Sala Policvalente del Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara.
1977 Istituto di Estetica della Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia dell’Universita di Siena.
1976 03 23 03 Museum of Modern Art, Montreal, Canada,
1976 Villa di Artimino, Artimino.
1976 Istituto di Estetica della Facoltà di Magistero di Firenze.
1975 Galleria Zona, Firenze.
1975 Istituto di Estetica della Facoltà di Magistero dell’Università di Firenze.
Conceptual books
Unanimatedue, virtual edition, on albanoguatticoceptualbooks.com web site, 2020
Intersextions, virtual edition, on albanoguatticoceptualbooks.com web site, 2020
Pullandshoot, virtual edition, on albanoguatticoceptualbooks.com web site, 2020
Ambiti, virtual edition on albanoguatticoceptualbooks.com web site, 2014
Unanimated, All Saints Press 2015 [ISBN 978-3-9504015-0-9]
Blackstage, All Saints Press 2012.
Ambiti, virtual edition on albanoguatticoceptualbooks.com web site,
Sexuences, Lipanjepuntin 2003.
Albano Guatti Fotografie 1974-2000, Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Bologna 2002. Essay by Peter Weiermair
Fugitdigit, E & C. Edizioni 2000. Text by Agnes Kohlmeyer [ISBN 88-900409-2-0]
Performing & Photographing, E.& C. Edizioni, 1999. Text by Ermanno Migliorini [ISBN 88-900409-0-4]
Coincidences, Litoimmagine Editore, 1998. Essays by Aldo Castelpietra, Luca Ferro, Vittorio Savi
Nudes, Litoimmagine editore, 1996. Text by Vittorio Savi
Fotografiefotografie, A.G.P. 1995. Texts by Carlo Arturo Quintavalle, Michael Sand, Ermanno Migliorini [ISBN 88-900409-8-X]
Negative Actions, 1974-1980. A.G.P. 1995. Essays by Giuseppe Chiari e Paul McCarthy
A’ Poil, Aviani Editore 1994. [ISBN 88-7772-051-4]
Major commercial works
2014 Marposs Annual Report
2013 Marposs institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2011 Mep, Photo book
2010 Vought Aircraft Industries, Photo Book
2010 Vought Aircraft Industries, Nashville, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2010 Vought Aircraft Industries, Stuart, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2009 Vought Aircraft Industries, Dallas, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2009 Vought Aircraft Industries, Los Angeles, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2009 Global Areonautics Alenia, Charleston, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2009 Ansaldo STS, Batesburg,institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2009 Ansaldo Breda, Pittsburgh, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2008 Vought Aircraft Industries, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2008 Ansaldo Breda, S Francisco and Los Angeles,institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2008 Global Aeronautics, Charleston, institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2008 Agusta U.S.A., institutional identity and creation of photo archive
2007 Mep photo book
2006 Cogim, institutional identity
2006 Fincantieri national advertising campain 2005
2003 Iveco Daily, annual report and brochure
2003 Cost Guard, calendar.
2002 Mep, institutional identity and annual report.
2002 Fincantieri, photo book on Zuiderdam, Holland America Line cruise ship
2001 Vespa U.S.A., promotional video
2000 Fincantieri, annual report and creation of photo archive
2000 Mariam Zaim Eyweare, advertising campain.
2000 Beretta U.S.A., advertising campain and brochure
2000 ACP International, annual report and brochure
1999 Rizzani de Eccher International, annual report
1999 Codest, annual report and brochure
1999 Tim Telecom Italia, annual report
1998 Fincantieri, brochure
1998 Ikom, brochure
1997 Promosedia 1998, calendar
1997 Bulgari, United States advertising campain
1996 Ordine Nazionale degli Ingegneri, annual report and brochure
1996 Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone, 1997 calendar
1996 Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone, annual report
1996 Eridania Begin Say, institutional identity
1996 Lincoln Center, New York Metropolitan Opera, institutional identity and annual report
1995 Chamber of Commerce of Udine, capabilities brochure
1995 Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone, annual report
1994 L.I.M.A. U.S.A., brochure
1994 Codest, annual report
1994 Rizzani de Eccher International, annual report
1994 IMRS U.S.A., capabilities brochure
1994 Cassa di Risparmio di Udine e Pordenone, annual report
1993 Yumi Katsura Japan, spring collection
1992 Cantieri Tencara, Il Moro di Venezia, video
1992 Lesieur, France, creation of a photo archive
1992 Montefluos, creation of a photo archive
1992 Himont, creation of a photo archive
1991 Modo Eyewear U.S.A., advertising campain
1991 Cantieri Tencara, Il Moro di Venezia, creation of a photo archive
1991 Montedison, annual report
1991 Montedison, creation of a photo archive
1991 Eridania Beghin Say, creation of a photo archive
1991 Carapelli, creation of a photo archive.
1991 Farmitalia, creation of a photo archive.
1990 The New Spherilene, Montecatini, annual report
1990 Rizzani de Eccher International, corporate book
1990 Belize, advertising campain
1989 Gruppo Fantoni, creation of a photo archive
1989 Basile Eywear, advertising campain
1988 Titolo by Basile, advertising campain
1988 Gruppo Fantoni, annual report
1988 Montedison U.S.A., annual report
1987 Russel Raynolds Associates, annual report
1986 Citycorp Investment Bank, annual report
1985 Citycorp Investment Bank, annual report
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