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Determining from which world the imagination comes and how it goes beyond the perceivable reality is not an aesthetic whim but the symbol of an ever-changing quest; likewise, representing a dynamic reality cannot symbolize a tendency towards a rational, perceivable hyperuranion. Moreover, the very idea of representation is affected by the age-old dispute between mimesis and poiesis in a nonlinear historical development that reached its climax within the post-modernism, and its thirst for taxonomy. But then, where is time?, it lives in this confusion of poetics and constant citations and it rises to the role of frame and no longer of necessary natural context.

If one is convinced, instead, that the act of creation proceeds from a different inception and that it is a harbinger of constant astonishment then the initial question is overturned and becomes: how does one intervene in time?.

Beyond every nihilistic confutation one can consider an alternative approach: the time of man. In this way one travels backwards, from everyday life, vices, vulnerabilities and passions to the concealed universe of the impossible Idea: a reality that is parallel but not fictitious.

A reality made of half-sleeps, and indistinct states of mind cannot be defined univocally, and

Gianmaria De Luca is an artist working mostly with photography and printmaking. He works to share through the imagination, realising images born of collaborations and interactions with artists and muses, and his environment.

Compelled by the mystery of reality and its relationship to the photographic process he often employs techniques that occur only at the moment of shooting such as light painting and multiple exposure. Untouched by digital manipulation the results are none the less impossible, imaginary worlds.

Born in Rome, Italy, he blends the influence of his Italian heritage with insight he pursues in different cultures and experiences through travel, creating the original and contemporary imagery in his work.His work to date includes fine art and reportage photography, experimental installations and work with notable artists and masters of costume and set design, journalism, and filmmaking as well as commissioned work for clients that include Fortuny, Concrete Playground, The Secret Garden Festival, Laneway Festival and Pietro Ruffo. He has exhibited globally throughout Italy, Northern Ireland, Germany, Switzerland and Australia.