ARTIST: ANTONIO GUCCIONE

Pacific Coast Gallery is honored to represent Antonio Guccione. Antonio has been a leading fashion and commercial photographer for over 40 years. He's been a contributing photographer to Vanity Fair and has shot and directed advertising campaigns for Prada, Gucci, Yves Saint Laurent and Karl Lagerfeld. He has an impressive list of subjects for his portraits, including Cindy Crawford, Elle Macpherson, Tyra Banks, Iman, Carol Alt, Sarah Jessica Parker, Richard Gere, Dizzy Gillespie, Giorgio Armani, Asia Argento, Roberto Cavalli, Dolce and Gabbana, Umberto Eco, Federico Fellini, Yasmin Le Bon and Gianni Versace.

Antonio has published numerous books, including Faces of New York (1992), Antonio Guccione: Fashion and Faces (2006) and Antonio Guccione: From Jesus to Yves Saint Laurent (2014). His photos have been exhibited in many of the largest museums and art galleries in the world. He's also been a professor at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan.

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Loved by Yves Saint Laurent

"What's the difference between a fashion photo and a portrait? Nothing, as shown by the work of Antonio Guccione exhibited in Milan. Fashion photography is the photography of our time. Inside a dress you'll find a reflection of the culture of the era. It is necessary to understand this to understand the work of Antonio Guccione, loved by Yves Saint Laurent and made famous by unforgettable advertising for Prada, Gucci, and Versace."

Dreamlike

"He has portrayed the stars of literature and music, entertainment and the catwalks, between fairytale sets and dreamlike suggestions. Dizzy Gillespie, Dustin Hoffman, Richard Gere, reports on Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, exhibitions in Paris, New York and Milan.

Italian with a cosmopolitan vocation, Antonio Guccione has always been involved in the world of fashion photography with esprit de finesse and a great love for cinema, which he frequented a lot."

Iconic

"It started with a Graflex Crown 4x5, and ended up in museums. First the galleries, then the Venice Biennale. In between: magazines, covers, exhibitions…thousands of iconic printed images.

In New York he crossed the city, uptown and downtown, and photographed the most beautiful women in the world, artistically telling the story of an era. The goal was not only the perfection of shapes, lights and shadows, the raw material of every photograph, but the description of the female soul contained in each model, which he did sumptuously well."

World-Famous Artist, Interpreter of Trends

"Antonio Guccione, world-famous artist, interpreter of trends in customs and society, tells of his life in the house-studio, where every corner surprises for a detail or a work of his: "I'm choosing the photos to send to the Guggenheim in Bilbao. I have to select from 150,000 negatives."

Guccione has collaborated with the most prestigious magazines and immortalized countless celebrities: Cindy Crawford at 18, Iman at the time of the liaison with David Bowie, Rachel Hunter, Sarah Jessica Parker at the beginning of her career. The most generous? Dustin Hoffman.

He spent wonderful periods in Paris working for Harper's Bazaar and in the United States, where he had various exhibitions, including "Faces of New York": gigantic photos of stars, from Richard Gere to Anthony Quinn or Bob Colacello. At the opening 10,000 people attended."



BIOGRAPHY

Solo Exhibitions

2019 Antonio Guccione Dressing Up Milano, curated by Angelo Crespi , Salotto di Milano, Milan Italy

2018 Antonio Guccione Portofino, curated by Flavia Motolese, Castello Brawn, Portofino, Italy

2017 Fashion and Faces, Franz Kraler, Cortina, Italy

2014 Antonio Guccione From Jesus To Yves Saint Laurent, curated by Alessandra Radaelli, Gallery Matthias Ritter, Milan Italy.

2014 Antonio Guccione From Jesus to Yves Saint Laurent, curated by Sitor Senghor, Fat Galerie, Paris, France

2013 Antonio Guccione Vanitas, curated by Mariella Casile Bim Suisse, Lugano, Switzerland

2012 Antonio Guccione Live and Die, O.Generale, Melrose Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2012 Antonio Guccione Eternity, Shatush Qor Gallery, curated by Anna Bonanni, Milan, Italy

2011 New York Woman, Boscolo Museum Hall, Milan, Italy

2010 Antonio Guccione Vanitas, curated by Sitor Senghor,Alm Gallery, Ramatuelle, France

2010 Antonio Guccione Mystic, Chiesa Santa Maria degli Angeli, Apricale, Italy

2009 Guccione, Nordic Light, Kristiansund, Norway

2008 Antonio Guccione New York 1992, curated by Giuliana Scimè , Bel Art Gallery, Milan, Italy

2007 Antonio Guccione Portraits, My Own Gallery, Milan

2006 Antonio Guccione Fashion and Faces, curated by Giuliana Scimè, Fondazione Mudima, Milan Italy

1999 Antonio Guccione The Value of Time, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan, Italy

1992 Antonio Guccione Faces of New York , curated by Peter Tunney, The Time Is Always Now Gallery, New York

1991 Shoes from the Stars, Atheneum Museum of Design , Chicago, USA

1986 Guccione Facce, Palazzo della Permanente, curated by Elisabetta Longari, Milan, Italy

1986 Guccione Facce, Zita Vismara Gallery, Milan, Italy

 

Group Exhibitions

2019 Robert Kennedy Human Rights, “Stars & Tripes” Christies, Milan, Italy

2019 Antonio Guccione Vanitas curated by Angelo Crespi, WopArt Lugano, Switzerland

2019 ONHouse Milano Art Gallery, Milan, Italy Galleria Vik Milan, curated by A. Riva, Milan, Italy

2018 Art Fucks Fashion, Galleria Espinasse 31, Milan, Italy

2017 Vanitas, Biennale Genova first prize for photography

2015 Vanitas, Biennale Genova critics award

2013 Contemporanea, Todi , Palazzo del Vignola, Todi, Italy

2013 Hot by Luca Beatrice , De Magistris Art Gallery, Milan, Italy

2011 54° Biennale di Venezia, curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Palazzo Te Mantova. Italy

2010 Vanitas, curated by Amedeo Turello, Saint Moritz Art Masters, S. Moritz, Switzerland

2005 And The Stars Shine, Bel Art Gallery, Milan, Italy

2002 Fashion from the 80,s, Toscana Foto Festival, Marina di Massa, Italy

1989 Facce, La Versiliana, Pietrasanta, Italy

1985 Ecco L’Italia, Bloomingdale’s, New York, USA

 

Publications

2014 From Jesus to Yves Saint Laurent, Rizzi & Matthias Ritter Gallery, Milan, Italy

2008 Dressing Up Milano, Antonio Guccione, Skira, Italy

2005 Fashion and Faces, Antonio Guccione Skira, Italy

1999 The Value of Time, Officine Panerai, Milan, Italy

1994 Absolut Statehood, Antonio Guccione curated by Glenn O’Brien, Aperture Publisher, USA

1992 Antonio Guccione Faces of New York, The Time is Always Now Publisher, USA

1988 YSL and the Fashion Photographer, by Margareta Duras, Schirmer/Mosel Publisher, Germany

1987 Due passi sotto le stelle, Antonio Guccione, curated by Natalia Aspesi, cover by Federico Fellini, Italy

1986 Guccione Facce, Aviani Publisher, Italy

 

Films

1993 Faces of New York, New York USA

1987 Giovanni Paolo II, Turin, Italy



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