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SERGIO MARIO ILLUMINATO

ARTIST, DIRECTOR, AUTHOR.

For over thirty years, he has been pursuing transdisciplinary artistic research. IOSONOVULNERABILE today represents its international synthesis.

 

Art is a living organism: it breathes, grows, transforms

 

The cinematic works represent the convergence of a research that spans photography, visual arts, performance practices, publishing and education.

 

DISCOVER THE CINEMA Âť      IN DEVELOPMENT: THE BASALT THRESHOLD – Feature film, Italy, 2026, 90 minutes.         
     NICE TO SEE YOU AGAIN! – Documentary film, Italy, 2026, 60 minutes, 

VULNERARE (2024-2026).
An experimental film born from the encounter between artistic residency, performance, and research in the spaces of the former Pontifical Prison of Velletri, closed for over thirty years and frozen in time.
World premiere at the New York City International Film Festival, European premiere at the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.

7 INTERNATIONAL AWARDS
Best Director – Best Experimental Film		 17 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
Argentina, Egypt, France, Japan, India
Italy, United Kingdom, TĂźrkiye, United States		 6 SPECIAL SCREENINGS
National Museum of 21st Century Arts, La Nuvola
Italian Cultural Institute, Villa Altieri Museum

 

CRITICAL VIEWS

Walls, floors, and ceilings become cuts, wounds, faults, and caesuras – material that merges with the choreography into a single visual score.

Bruno Di Marino – Media historian

 Recognizing vulnerability doesn’t mean weakness, but presence. Vulnerable, therefore alive.

Jessica Dalby – Film critic

 A complex project where vulnerability is exorcised and transformed into emotion through various artistic forms.

Sergio Battista – Film critic

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Recognized among the Best Cultural Practices of the Lazio Region with Act no. G08510 of 25/06/2024 of the Lazio Region – Regional Directorate of Culture, Youth and Family Policies, Equal Opportunities, Civil Service

This research develops through unusual perspectives guided by the principle of TRANSDISCIPLINARITY, as a tool for navigating and understanding the complexity of the present. We inhabit the INTERSTITIAL ZONES between painting and sculpture, allowing ourselves to be traversed by the languages of cinema, dance, music, and photography, to continually re-signify exhibition spaces and experiment with relational creative practices capable of revealing connections, affinities, and latent possibilities between the participating elements. From this necessity, an open and unfinished expressive research takes shape, oriented toward an authorial dimension that, through the “COSMIC-WEAVE-FABRIC” of “COMMUNICATING-ARTISTIC-ORGANISMS,” is grounded in “CO-EXISTENCE.” This gives rise to irregular performative loops: places of encounter and community, spaces for shared generation and active knowledge, not simple devices for fruition. This is a reversal of the trend in art, distant from the exclusive logics and self-referential systems now devoid of vital impetus. From this perspective, the themes of the “BODY-BEYOND-MATTER“, of “VULNERABILITY“, of the “NOMADIC-ETHICS” and of the “AESTHETICS-OF-CONVERGENCE“, founded on the creative processes of the RUINS, are intertwined to expand, divert and redefine the contemporary question with respect to the narratives propagated through the para-verse.

December 6, 2024 – February 23, 2025, ROME – IAMVULNERABLE: (Chapter 3) ‘The Antagonist of Contemporary Art Is Loving Silence’, at the former women’s prison, now Villa Altieri, the Palace of Culture and Memory.

October 3 – November 29, 2024, PARIS – IAMVULNERABLE: (2nd chapter) ‘failure is an achievement, art is loving the mistake’, in a prestigious ‘hĂ´tel particulier’ from the end of the 18th century, now the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris.

September 30, 2023 – January 30, 2024, VELLETRI – IAMVULNERABLE: (Chapter 1) ‘Therefore, living art is loving reality’, at the former Pontifical Prison of Velletri, dating back to the late 19th century.

Furthermore, hundreds of solo and group exhibitions (2020-2025) have been held in Italy and abroad, including France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Latvia, and the United Arab Emirates. His paintings and sculptures are regularly featured on major art platforms and directories.  

Fluid and constantly evolving, these works eschew the traditional idea of artwork as a complete, stable, and definitive form. Their material evolves over time, undergoing natural processes that alter its appearance and structure. This constant transformation reveals an entropic dimension: the work is not fixed in a permanent state, but rather takes the form of a living organism, open to becoming, relationship, and transformation. OACs do not offer definitive answers, but rather open spaces for critical reflection, exposing the ambiguity of human experience.

CRITICAL VIEWS

Works and place are hybridized through continuity, generating a living organism in which thought does not take a definitive form, but remains open like life itself. More than an exhibition, it is a living device: an interweaving of images, thought, and place that places the fragile and changing condition of human existence at its center.

Franco Speroni, writer, historian and art critic

 Communicating Artistic Organisms discover themselves to be cultural devices of nature, mechanisms of communication with anyone who wishes to touch them, observe them, or touch them. We, spectators and co-creators, become part of the same interplay of forces: every fall is the discovery of new knowledge and unprecedented conquests.

Roberta Melasecca, writer and art curator

 The works do not escape time and space: they traverse them, interpret them, and transform them into a shared human experience, a testimony to the possibility of life. And we, spectators and co-creators with the work and the artist, become part of the same interplay of forces, in the symbiotic exchange of skin, tensions, and perceptions.

Giulio Casini, art, cinema and dance psychologist

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For six months, a collective of international artists, along with technicians and students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, inhabited the facility’s decaying cells and dark corridors. The artists engaged in a kind of “creative speleology” before the building underwent an irreversible renovation and transformation. Entering Out Exiting Inside aims to explore the theme of vulnerability through artistic expression, guiding students on a journey of self-exploration and deepening their relationship with the world.

 

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