Massimiliano Camellini was born in Venice (Italy) in 1964.
His main works and publications are Beyond the Cages (2001), The Flyers (2004), Duel (2006), New Arenas (2009), Laboratory Obsession (2010), 6 p.m., the working time is over (2013), Al di là dell’acqua (2016).
He exposed at Museum Historii Fotografii w Krakowie (Poland), Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi (Belgium), MAMAC Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Liege (Belgium), MIA (Milan Image Art Fair) 2013, 2014 & 2016, Museum of Photography, Seoul (Korea).
On March/May 2015 the work 6 p.m., the working time is over has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Arts of Saint Etienne (France), in the exibition “La suite du temps”. The last project Al di là dell’acqua, launched at Wopart, Lugano (2016), is to be exhibited from 23 December 2016 to 5 February 2017 at Bag Gallery (Parma), and after that, in Genova at Commenda di Prè (July – August 2017) and London in 2018.
A new project, started on 2008, is researching about the urban territories, Tram Frame is the first work belonging to this cycle.
His artworks are included in permanent collections of several museums worldwide. He is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society and Director of its Italian Chapter (CIRPS).
About ‘Tram Frame’:
Moments of people’s life in the urban context and inside the same means of transport (the tram) which link the “time frame” to a constructed, uniform “space frame”, which gathers together all the individuals who are inside.
An experiment of the territory of contact between the passing of time on one hand, and the cyclical nature of daily time, lived in the same space on the other hand. The tram has always been considered in the collective imagination as a symbol of simplicity, the repetition of its route, always following the same circuit.
The “frame” of the window is the instrument telling the time and the emotions felt by different people by the same experience and in the same place … a moment of life, mounted together with others …. an imaginary cinema montage that tells us about different ways of life, an infinity of emotions, curiosities, ages of mankind; a tram that, through photography, would tell more things than those that happen during the 45-minute journey from one terminus to the other.
