Biography
BIOGRAPHY
Alessandra Di Consoli was born in Chile the 21/06/1982 and she lived in Milan where she obtained a diploma at the IED (European Institute of Design) of Milan in 2004.
She works at Superstudio13 and SuperstudioPIù as photographer since 2005 and as an assistant photographer for important professionals like Oliviero Toscani. She collaborates for the Est Library System Milan, for Glamour magazine, D Repubblica and others.
The eclectic artist works on several personal projects since 2002 among which the photo exhibition “Labbra del Tempo” at (con)TemporaryArt in Milan (2008) and at The Book Club (2010) in London; she also participates at different collective exhibitions such as “palla al centro” for UNICEF, “lust Minute” for Life Gate Radio, “Meno Trenta” and others.
In 2009 she publishes her photo-book “Memorie dell’Abbandono” edited by Est Library System, presented at the Art Book Milano and selected and exposed at the International Festival of Photography in Roma in 2009.
Co-founder of Guvi Productions, she creates the Installations “Biblio-Wardrobe” and the “Disco-Wardrobe” winner of several awards like Audiovisiva 5.0 at Museo Diocesano, Milan, “Orange Call Award” in Bergamo and “7 stanze in cerca d’autore” Award in Mantova. Recently it participated to the biennial Absurd Festival in castel Vetrano di Modena (June 2011)
And for the Bianconirico Association she created the Installation “Cassetti” showed in Pavia and next September she presented her installation “the Bench”.
In June 2010 she receives the prestigious Milan Woman Award 2010, Photography Category, as young talent who has and will contribute to make Milan a bigger city.
Recently Alessandra has been selected among the 40 finalists for the Arte Laguna Award 2011 in Venice;
She participated to the collective art show Opera/Fabbrica Prize 2011 in Ravenna;
she has been selected for the collective biennial GenovArte 2011 in Genova with the photographic work “do not share and you'll feel sated”. Also in June 2011 the artist participates to the perAspera Contemporary Art Festival in Bologna with the video installation “Inquietudini Domestiche”.
