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At first sight the young Sicilian photographer seems to share numerous objectives of the Futurists: the movement and the permeation of its overlapped images have all the dynamic energy that we find, for example, in Boccioni. Yet, despite this and the use that Bramante does of a technology even dreamt not by the Futurists, his awareness of the action of the memory, even of the nostalgia, it is completely different from their philosophy that was, exactly, futurist (which, by now it possesses the whole pathos of the ideologies of the past avant-garde).

Bramante says of his work: 'My way to photograph is identical to my way to remember, to think, to dream, to hope, everything happens for temporal and spatial overlaps.' In other words, its job treats so much of the past and of the present how much of the future, and its simultaneous visions are the total recreation of a place and a society more than an utopian idea of as these they should be. Samples are its photos that belong to a series, initiated in 1998, entitled My Own Rave. As in so many portraits devoted to the most disparate cities of the world that have crossed and then recreated in his photos, it contains a whole society, with all of hher visible aspects in the same moment. As the artist says: 'For me these images are the exact photo of the contemporary society'. Well I am also the exact photo of the artist and his personal history, 'Her stratifications and the veilings that you find above every image it brings back me to the history of my earth and my people, we are some Arabs, Norman, Byzantine, Spanish.' Bramante is the eternity Mediterranean vagabond as Ulisse or as the Jewishes or also the Irishmen themselves: to house everywhere yet never in house.

Born in Siracusa on Novembre 7th 1970. From 1990 to 1995  attended the Accademia Albertina in Turin. In 1998 he won the Franklin Furnace Foundation scholarship, with which he realized the project The Future of the Present; thanks to a scholarship of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, won in 1999, he could complete the project Movin’up, at the Franklin Furnace Foundation. Among his most important exhibitions, are the solo show at MACI Museum of Isernia and the solo show at RVS Fine Arts in New York. After long stays in cities such as Milan, Bologna, New York, London, he decided to settle in his hometown, Siracusa, where he actually lives and works.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
City Night, Gaia Gallery, Ginevra, (Switzerland)
Rock/Mantico, Festival Europeo di fotografia, Reggio Emilia
Metropoli che illuminano le notti, Galleria Lipanjepuntin, Roma
2008
Saluti da Modica text by Andrea G. Pinketts, Galleria La Veronica, Modica
Eureka curated by Pietro Campellone, Museum MACI, Isernia
Diagonale d’Oriente curated by Enrico Gusella, Centro Nazionale di Fotografia, Padova
2007
My own rave curated by Gianluca Marziani, Art Lounge, Lisbon (Portugal)
Around the world curated by Lorand Hegyi, Galleria Poggiali e Forconi, Firenze
2006
Around Europe RVS Fine Art, Long Island (New York)
CCCP, l’universo finito curated by Gianluca Marziani, Galleria Contemporanea, Pescara
2005
Camera con vista curated by Ivan Quaroni, Galleria Obraz, Milano
2004/05
Così vicino, così lontano Artecontemporanea, Catania
Visioni Italiane curated by Chiara Tiberio, Istituto di Cultura Italiano, Il Cairo - Egypt
2001
Into the Fiction curated by Paola Nicita, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo
2000
Dissolvenze – Evidenze curated by Gianluca Marziani, Galleria Artecontemporanea, Catania
1999
Rave Mutation 001 curated by Dario Salani, Gallerie Siberie, Amsterdam
My own rave curated by Raffaella Morra, Studio Morra, Napoli
L.O.S.S. curated by Alessia Gallo, Gallerie Arco di Rab, Roma
1998
The Future of Present curated by di Martha Wilson, Franklin Furnace, New York
Ectoplasmi Urbani curated by di Daniele Perra, Galleria Interni e Dum Dum, Bologna

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
Mediterraneo Contemporaneo curated by Antonio D’Avossa, Castello Aragonese, Taranto
Celeste Prize curated by Gianluca Marziani, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze
Il male e il male curated by di Enrico Mattei, Contemporanea, Pescara
Cairo Prize Palazzo della Permanente, Milano
Sicilia! curated by Marco Meneguzzo, Acireale
2005
Molino Dorino curated by Marco Fantini, Nextam Partners, Milano
Come Natura crea, l’uomo distrugge by D. Bramante, 10 artisti 10 critici
L’isola dei Pirati Fuoribiennale curated by Cristiano Seganfreddo, Venezia
Baciamo le Mani, willkommem curated by Haidi Sciacchitano, Kunsthaus Tacheles, Berlin
2004
Baciamo le Mani, willkommem curated by Haidi Sciacchitano, Castello dei Conti di Modica, Alcamo
Per Amore curated by Paola Nicita e Salvatore Lacagnina, Galleria Civica D’arte Contemporanea di Siracusa
2003
Melting Pop curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena
Interrogare il Luogo curated by Luigi Meneghelli, Studio La Città, Verona
2002
Cronache Marziane curated by C. Gualco, Gallerie Gualco, Genova
2001
Dalla Mini al Mini curated by Gianluca Marziani, Cartiere Vannucci, Milano and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
2000
The Present of Future curated by M. Wilson e H.Spiller, MOMA, New York
1999
Autori/Tratti/Italiani curated by A. Arevalo e A. Fonda, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
Fotografia curated by M. Gorni, C/o Off, Cusano Milanino
1998
Brain Machine curated by Fabiola Naldi, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Sarajevo
G.A.M.E. curated by Gino Gianuizzi, Galleria d’arte Moderna, Bologna


He has taken part in the following contemporary art fairs:
Art Basel, Art Cologne, Artissima (Torino), MiArt (Milano), Artefiera (Bologna), Art Verona, ARCO (Madrid), Palm Beach 3 (Florida), FIAC Parigi, SH Shanghai, CIGE Pechino.