Ianus Art

Emanuele Pagni (Florence 14th March 1980) graduates at the University of Florence, Literature and Philosophy course, Arts and Theathre address. He is an historian and critic for the cinema; his final essay concerns cultural antropology and news inquiry.
Since 2005 to 2007 he studies with Michael Margotta, actor and contributor to Jack Nicholson, honour member of the Actor’s Studio in New York and Los Angeles, founder of the Actor’s Center in Rome- the European equivalent to the American Actor’s studio.
In 2007 Emanuele teaches at the Metropolitan University in London (UK) as an external expert of film industry technics and education to the image. His course “Intercultural Performance” is a module inside the “Performing Arts BA Programme” given by Professor G.Poesio, then contributor to newspapers such as “The Spectator” and “L’Espresso”.
He contributes to Doc. Iuri Lombardi’s works, in the role of photo reporter and critic for some online newspaers.
He also takes shots for the Gandhi Comprehensive Schools, Florence, Italy. In 2008 he teaches digital photography at the Michelangelo High School, Florence, Italy.
Between 2007 and 2009 he organizes some personal exhibitions partly groomed by Ms Francesca Roberti, director of the international art gallery “Tornabuoni Arte” (Florence, Italy).
Among the most significative trails, we recall: “Corpi in luce: il sogno, la realtà”, (Bodies by the Light: the Dream, the Reality) “Il Bohemien e la luce” (The Bohemien and the Light) e “Immagini dall’Underground” (Images from the Underground).
In 2009 he is selected by the Tornabuoni Arte to perform personal exhibitions in Paris and Cannes: he is asked to introduce reportages on people by presenting shots from different cities in the world. His inspiration are photographers like H. C. Bresson e Robert Doisneau.
Since 2009 he is the official photographer for CGIL Toscana (Italian General Confederation of Labour) and the CGIL Regional National branch concerning news documentaries.
Some of his best photos are featured on national press such as “La Nazione” and “L’Unità”.
He is the author of the shots featured into two of the latest books by CGIL about the person of bruno Trentin and the Italian unions with hystorical relevance.
Since 2009 he is assistant to the desk of Professor Luca Macchi at the L.A.B.A. (Free Fine Arts Academy, Florence, Italy) Art History course.
Together with the painter and graphic Lorenzo Bittini, he founds in 2007, the Ianus Art project where the major task is to unite in one sole art form photography, painting and graphics by using several and innovative supporting materials. In 2010 next to masters of the range of Mr Gildardo Gallo, a VOGUE photographer, and Mr Sandro Bini from Deaphoto, he enlarges the perspective of his studies about the light.
Crossing these tutorial experiences, which include film images and photojournalism, Emanuele achieved a personal photo genre where each shot grabs the very essence of the moment through the lens. Black and white and colours enrich the identity of the photo.
Whoever observes, is thus invited to scan the initial sensation or feeling as if before a film frame, first element of the film industry. Emanuele shoots to create the inner pulse for a “thought that moves and individually develops”. It is a marriage between photojournalism and art photography.

Visit the online galleries by Emanuele Pagni on www.emanuelepagni.com and DeviantArt.
Contacts ema.hermes@inwind.it

Lorenzo Bittini (Florence 12th July1979) takes his diploma in 1999 at the Art High School L.B.Alberti in Florence where his first approaches to drawing and visual arts are met. The painter Nazareno Malinconi teaches him how different art languages speak to eachother.
Between 1999 and 2001 he attends the Arts Academy in Florence where he studies and refines drawing and painting techniques with Adriano Bimbi.
In 2000 he takes part to the 7th Edition of the Florentine event “Fabbrica Europa”, contributing to the art of Mr Paolo Buggiani by staging and performing his “Sculture di Fuoco” (Fire Sculptures). Together with other young people, Lorenzo engages in a series of performances of musical and graphical ad-lib.
Between 2002 and 2003 he attends the “DAMS Cinema” three year course at the University of Bolonia( Literature and Philosophy course, Logics of the Means address ) where he approaches the study of the film language: visual arts and mass media analysis are the core issues of the course. He then commits his studies to software for image and video editing and to achieving web\visual techniques by himself.
Since 2001 he has been working no-stop as a graphic designer on several projects in order to ripen his knowledge on communication, an aspect he pursued by working up-closely with professionals and workshops of graphics projecting- web and press wise.
Among the most significative works, we name the contributes to bodies and associations such as the EC, the Municipality of Sesto Fiorentino (Florence, Italy), the Ministry of Equal Opportunities, the non-profit organization Anelli Mancanti and fairs such as Art Fiera Internazionale dell'Artigianato in Florence and the Pottery Festival in Montelupo Fiorentino,Florence,Italy.
During the same period he cared for introducing new artists’s works such as the painter Alfredo Nannoni’s, the photographer Angela Chiti’s and the artisan shop of frames by Franco Ristori: Lorenzo mastered their websites and promotional material.
Since 2008 he has been researching an artistic pattern to explore his subconscious by getting closer to painting and illustration.

Please visit Lorenzo’s website at www.lorenzobittini.com and his on-line gallery at DeviantArt.
Contacts info@lorenzobittini.com