Giuseppe Lo Schiavo: Between Worlds
Giuseppe Lo Schiavo makes art about the spaces between — water and air, body and simulation, the visible and what refuses to be seen.
The Milan and London-based visual artist works across synthetic photography and bronze sculpture, but the medium matters less than the territory he maps. His work circles threshold states — those liminal moments where one thing becomes another, where boundaries dissolve into possibility.
In ROTTA, his series of larger-than-life bronze dolphins, Lo Schiavo casts these creatures as guides between worlds. Dolphins exist at the border of water and air, ancient symbols of passage and transformation. One sculpture bears the phrase 'L'arte non serve a niente' inscribed along its back — art serves no purpose — a provocation carried on a body built precisely for navigating the in-between.
“They are threshold figures, between water and air, fire and water, between the visible and the invisible. They emerge as guides, as presences that offer direction.”
For their collaborative exhibition L'Aria Aveva Una Forma — staged on Capri — Lo Schiavo joins Anton Alvarez in a liminal territory where two practices converge from opposite yet complementary directions. Lo Schiavo moves through photography and digital manipulation; Alvarez through physical, process-driven sculpture. Together they circle the same question: can emptiness take form?
He continues this approach with new fine art prints, including Helios Circle, the Ocean, and Synesthesia at Sunset. The pieces are printed on archival cotton paper in editions of 8+3 AP, with works reaching 165×122 cm — a scale that demands the synthetic image hold up to sustained looking. series approaches the same obsession from another angle, framing psychological boundaries, emptiness treated not as absence but as structure.
The concept anchors itself in perception. What we dismiss as void is, in fact, crossed by forces, memories, and invisible tensions. The air between two bodies. The pause before contact. Both artists translate this into material terms, one through image, one through object, and the exhibition becomes the space where those translations meet.