Schiavo Mazzonis Gallery

Born in Catania, Italy in 1974. Lives and works in London.

He received his MA in Photography from the Royal College of Art.

His artistic signature is photo-etching, but he works across a range of media such as sculpture, collage, animation and video. Arancio’s main interest lies in the potential of images. Departing from their literal meaning, he creates new juxtapositions that are both beautifully evocative and deeply disquieting. He looks to nature and science for his sources of inspiration, while unsettling any hint of the sublime by re-framing the images and the viewer’s experience. His constructed landscapes contain a sense of both the familiar and the unknown that enhances their symbolic readings and implications.

His recent exhibitions include: An Arrangement of the Materials Ejected, Spacex, UK, 2011; To See an Object to See a Light, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Italy, 2011; Shasta, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Roma; Sentinel - PPS//Meetings#4, Palazzo Riso - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy, 2011; SI-Sindrome Italiana, Le Magasin - Centre National d’Art contemporain de Grenoble, France, 2010; An Account of the Composition of the Earth’s Crust: Dirt Cones and Lava Bombs, Frame, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK, 2010; Catastrophe? Quelle Catastrophe! Manif d’Art 5, The Quebec City Biennial, Engramme, Quebec City, Canada, 2010; Prague Biennale 4, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic, 2009; I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile, GAM-Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy, 2009. Arancio won The Elephant Trust Grant, London and The Art Omi Residency, New York in 2011, the Premio ‘New York’ in 2009 and was selected for Sundaymorning@EKWC European Ceramic WorkCentre Artist Residency, The Netherlands (forthcoming); Wysing Arts Center Artist Residency, Cambridge, UK and Artist Residency and Ceramic Workshop, Museo Carlo Zauli, Faenza in 2012; for Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2006.

Link: Contemporary Art Society