Bio

Toni Meneguzzo is an international renown photographer and a researcher. His successful career started 40 years ago, and is characterised by research and innovation: he developed unique photo techniques that also defined his iconic style, like the big size Polaroid photos for the fashion industry (20×25, that became his distinguished mark, and soon was adopted by many others) and the current photo sequences edited in videos (stop motion).

The research embraces as well the subjects of this personal work, like the landscapes, the feminine nudes, the abstract eyes, the holy cows, the rural bandits, and the wild trees.

Thanks to his long and successful career in fashion, he extended his vision to different fields including architecture and design photography, always with a surprising point of view producing images with a clear vision of architecture, aesthetics and geometry.

His work has been shown all over the world, both in personal and collective exhibitions, and it has been published by the most important international magazines (Condé Nast Group publications, New York Times, Harpers’ Bazaar, Elle, etc.) and books on photography, fashion, lifestyle, design. 

Toni’s stop motion videos have been shown at the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, at the Musée des Arts décoratifs du Louvre in Paris, and at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

 

His latest personal projects include: Gauchillos that is a research on the syncretism of the Argentinian rural bandits;  Chrissi Island that is dedicated to the wild trees of the Greek islet; Divine Bovine that is an anthropological research on the Hindu tradition of Holy Cows, uniquely painted and dressed during specific ceremonies and celebrations.

Publications

His photographic research is shown in personal portfolios published by magazines such as Manipulator I, Photo F, Camera International F, Photographies F, Rolling Stone F, City Magazine International F, Commercial Photo D, Black&White A.

He publishes books on his fashion work and feminine nudes: Seduzione (1991), Aure (1993) and Frammenti (1993) published by Treville Book; Nude of J (1993) published by Asahi Shuppan-Sha.

The Argentinian syncretism project Gauchillos is published in a monographic book by Damiani (2017).

The Hindu Divine Bovine  project is published in a monographic book by Silvana Editoriale (2015) and in the series 1/16 of Corraini publishing house (2010).

 

Exhibitions

His works have been shown in many exhibitions worldwide:

1975 – The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK :personal exhibition Exploring the familiar

1984 – Closerie des Lilas Gallery, Paris, France: personal exhibition Toni Meneguzzo

1988 – Musée de la Mode, Paris, France : collective exhibition Creatures de la Mode

1990 – Galerie Maeght, Paris, France : collective exhibition Mois de la Photo

1991 – Exposure Parco Gallery , Tokyo, Japan: personal exhibition  Seduzione

1991 – The Room Gallery, Tokyo, Japan: personal exhibition, Nude of J.

1991 – Museo Alinari, Florence, Italy: collective exhibition Manipulator

1992 – Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA, USA: collective exhibition Angel Art

1992 – The Courtyard Gallery, New York, USA: collective exhibition The colour of fashion

1993 – Exposure Parco Gallery , Tokyo, Japan: personal exhibition No More 8×10 displaying also his short film Atatakaihikari-ga Tarinai.

1993 – Studio Casile Gallery, Milan, Italy: personal exhibition Visioni e Suoni

1993 – 3rd  Nice Biennial for Photography, France:  collective exhibition Momenti Italiani

1994 – G. Ray Hawkings Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA: collective exhibition Focus on AIDS

1994 – Galleria del Credito Valtellinese, Milan, Italy: collective exhibition C’è ancora spazio per l’ottimismo

1995 – Studio Casile Gallery, Milan, Italy: collective exhibition Il ritratto della cornice

1997 –  Art Gallery, Munich, Germany: collective exhibition Act for AIDS

1997 – 6th Turin Biennial for Photography, Italy: collective exhibition Trame inquiete

2004 – 4th Festival de la Photographie de Mode, Cannes, France 

2005 – Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy: Pitti Immage Discovery collective exhibition Sguardo Italiano  

2008 – Galleria Torbandena, Trieste, Italy: personal exhibition Il progetto delle Vacche Sacre

2008 – Untitled 2144 Contemporary Photography Gallery, Miami, FL, USA: Two Cows

2009 –  Galleria Torbandena, Trieste, Italy: collective exhibition I nostri cari amici

2009 – Spazio 81 Gallery, Milan, Italy: personal exhibition Divine Bovine

2009/2010 – Bon Marché, Paris, France: installations Mandala, Ultraman (displaying also the video Ultraman), Venice

2010 – Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy: four art videos displayed at the Zegna Centenary Exibition

2010 – Crooma Gallery, Munich, Germany: personal exhibition Divine Bovine

2011 – Strato Gallery, Milan, Italy: personal exhibition Divine Bovine

2011 – Disegno Gallery, Mantova, Italy: personal exhibition Divine Bovine

2011 – Galleria Torbandena, Trieste, Italy: collective exhibition Torbandena Projects

2013 – Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy: art video Dai confini del solito about Piero Fornasetti

2014 – Encontros de imagem International Photography Festival, Braga, Portugal: exhibition Divine Bovine

2014 – Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA: video Senses

2015 – Musée des Arts décoratifs du Louvre, Paris, France: Dai confini del solito about Piero Fornasetti – art video Dai confini del solito about Piero Fornasetti

2015 – Photolux Biennal International Photography Festival, Lucca, Italy : exhibition Divine Bovine

2016 – Dongdaemun Design Plaza, Seoul, South Korea: Fornasetti Practical Madness – art video Dai confini del solito about Piero Fornasetti