Ulderico Tramacere was born in Lecce in 1975. Currently lives and works in Milan.
As an eclectic and actively engaged author, he discovers the media of photography self-taught but "the spiritual encounter" with some of the greatest contemporary masters transforms him profoundly and lead to refine his training. He is currently one of the most interesting emerging photographers in the Italian art scene and highly recognized by the Art critics.His powerful black and white images emphatically tell of events, landscapes and atmospheres of today's Italy, to arouse a cultural and social reflection of the impact of human action on the environment. Intimately linked to his native land and to the millenary wisdom of rural culture, Tramacere uses symbols and metaphors to return his poetic visual story, to the present times. He won prestigious photography awards and he is author of publications, exhibiting his work in prestigious galleries and institutions. Furthermore the artist participates to international contemporary art fairs.
Among his bodies of works: "Nylon", Mia Photo fair 2018, (in 2017 he won the "Piaceri d'Italia", "Film plastici" (2016), "Arneo" award with the work "Pecora Nera" "(Ed. Grifo, 2015)," Lente di Fresnel "(2004-in progress), today serves as the" signature "of the author and his personal research on the photographic portrait," Liber Monstrorum de diversis generibus "(2012), contemporary bestiary exhibited at the Italian Center of Author Photography and at Art Vilnius, "The magic eye" (2012), tribute to the extraordinary gaze of fellow photographers, published by Il raggio verde.
BOOKS
- 2015 Arneo
Edited Book, Foreword: Ferdinando Scianna
Afterword and texts editor: Chiara Agagiù
Limited Numbered Edition (1000 copies)
Edizioni Grifo, Lecce
- 2012 The Magic Eye
Edited Book, Foreword: Maurizio Lupi, Pippo Pappalardo
Il Raggio Verde, Lecce
SELECTED PORTFOLIOS
2016 Cellophane – Idomeni
Special mention at “Portfolio Italia” competition (TA)
- 2015 La Piovra
Finalist at “Portfolio Italia” competition
- 2012 Liber monstrorum de diversis generibus
Finalist at “Portfolio Italia” competition
- 2008 Fresnel Lens
Finalist at “Portfolio Italia” competition
EXHIBITIONS
- 2015 Arneo
Cantine Moros
Guagnano – LE
15/3-30/3
Fondazione Grimaldi
Modica – RG
23/10-8/11
Galleria Ortigia Island Photography
Siracusa
12/11-20/11
- 2014 La Piovra
Centro Italiano della fotografia d’Autore
Bibbiena – AR
29/11-15/02/2015
- 2014 The Magic Eye
Orvieto
Palazzo dei Sette
28/3-6/4
Centro Italiano della Fotografia d’Autore
Bibbiena – AR
8/12 – 10/2/2013
- 2012 The Magic Eye
Palazzo Risolo
Specchia – LE
16/8 – 30/8
Officine Cantelmo
Lecce
15/4 – 29/4
- 2009 Fresnel Lens
Festival Internazionale della Fotografia
Odradek - Roma
30/5- 5/6
FAIRS
- 2018 MIA PhotoFair
- 2017 MIA PhotoFair
- 2014 Art Vilnius (Lituania)
Liber Monstrorum De Diversis Generibus
Limited Edition
Fine art prints and handmade varnishes
Gallery: Riva Arte Contemporanea
SELECTED ARTICLES
- 2016 P. Pappalardo, Arneo, in «Gente di Fotografia», XXII, 65, 2016 pp. 88-91 .
- 2014 A. Lauria, La Piovra, in «Riflessioni», XI, 2014, pp. 42-43
- 2012 M. Lupi, Liber Monstrorum de diversis generibus,in «Fotoit»XXXIX, 2013, pp. 16-19.
"His images impose themselves for their poetic essentiality, for their metaphorical ability to communicate the drama of these trees, eradicated from the land that fed them and made them sick, waiting for displacement. Based on closeness and the ability to "see-feel" these of olive trees as wounded and powerful presences, Tramacere's photographs make up a sort of disturbing and fascinating macabre dance; they make us feel the cry of pain of a nature increasingly dominated by man but, at the same time, they bring out the archaic strength ".
(Extracted from the critical text by Gigliola Foschi)
