Maorano (Crotone 1957) has been treading an avant-garde path since the beginning of the Nineties, photographically operating on digitally processed pictures. His exhibition The Breath of Light features a series of works where the images he is very familiar with, such as vertiginously high architectural structures and waving figures, coexist with new motifs and symbols which raise serious questions about the future of mankind. To the architectural elements, the interior, the shades, and to his own manual and digital dexterity, the artist actually adds a theme which can be linked to the documentary-ecological branch, inviting the city to embrace questions which are of prominent importance at the present time, such as energy demand in the light of a growing environmental awareness. Some digitally processed works featuring pictorial interventions are on display: they are equipped with large windmill blades whose improbable collocation seems almost real, even though the bewilderment needs a plausible explanation, which only overlapping, evanescent elements, colour stains and rarefied tones manage to justify, putting each image in a position of perfect balance.
A building/sculpture interacts with the works on the walls: it is the result of a gradual research process carried out throughout the years, which has only been brought to light now; it is the corporeal mass of all those (until now) merely filmic and figurative elements which can be found in Maiorano's photographic works. "Sculpture complements painting in a Duchampian manner, forcing the observers to jump with their eyes from the “picture plane” to three-dimensionality (…) the union of photographically ready-made images with the manual subjectivity of pictorial gestures creates the vocabulary of the new global post-post-modern academy" (Alan Jones, 2010).