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| In Renato Grome, born in Rome (1954) of British parents the day
the Bikini explosion rocked the world, mingles the blood of artists and
writers- his father, a painter descended from British aristocrats and the
chaotic genius Sheridan, his midwife mother of British farmer roots.
He was named for his godfather, the Sicilian painter Renato Guttuso, reared among influential musicians and artists, he discovers the magic powers of photography early. Sent to school in cold grey England this rebellious boy, well whipped by his masters, escaped in his suit of crushed raspberry velvet to the sex and drugs and rock and roll mayhem of the ’60s London, and taken under the wing of the late Alexis Korner. From there he was first apprenticed in Rome as a fine art restorer, scraping and cleaning Caravaggios and Raphaels, fascinated by the world of allegory and symbol revealed to him, thence to Paris in the grip of student revolution and on to Stockholm where free love and high-minded socialism reigned, he worked as a fashion model and furthered his understanding photography assisting François Gillet. His career expanded and blossomed in a place where he felt at ease and where he fathered the lovely Melody, always the joy of his life. Sometimes a raver, always a rover, he based himself in Stockholm, setting up a studio there and working with camera and wayward searching eye in film and video, beaming his creativity on projects both commercial and purely aesthetic. Perpetually searching new horizons, in the mid ‘90s he moves to Sydney, where stunning nature, sunshine and sea and new freedom from the shibboleths of old European culture, brought forth a fresh tide of new work and building on beginnings in Stockholm, he held several shows of work which imagination and technical understandings are fused with a wild and beautiful surrealism. Renato has used a camera all his working life, knows well the rich diversity of its possibilities, and in his long dalliance with the mystery of light, spiller of the life force, creates images beyond the merely arresting, memorable, erotic and electric. He cultivates a garden where a new flora flourishes, familiar yet drenched in light and aflame with colour, metamorphosed. These are not pictures of flowers in the botanical sense. Enigmatic and surprising, playing with the ambiguity of the magic medium of ‘truth’, photography. (...) Christopher Gibbs, mentor to Renato Grome, is Trustee of The Edward James Foundation, prominent London antiquarian, writer and co-Art directed cult films Performance and Blow Up. |
| Renato Grome - Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2009 |
Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) |
| Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy) | |
| Beyond the Beyond, Shenker Culture Club, Torino (Italy) | |
| Matt Dive Gold, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Roma (Italy) | |
2008 |
MiArt, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Milano (Italy) |
| Art Verona, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea , Verona (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
2007 |
Byron McMahon Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
2006 |
The Armory Show, Sandra Byron Gallery, New York (USA) |
| Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia) | |
| Paris Photo, Sandra Byron Gallery, Paris (France) | |
2005 |
Sydney Art Fair, Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
2000 |
Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
| Stockholm Art Fair, Zinc Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) | |
1999 |
Paris Photo, Byron Mapp Gallery, Paris (France) |
| Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia) | |
1998 |
Zinc Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) |
| Group Show Byron Mapp, Australian Embassy, Paris (France) | |
| Paris Photo, Byron Mapp Gallery, Paris (France) | |
| Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia) | |
1997 |
Art House Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
| Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia) | |
| Fuji House, Tokyo (Japan) | |
1996 |
Sub Culture, travelling exhibition, (Australia / New Zeland) |
| ACMP,, Collection II, Travelling exhibition (Australia) | |
1990 |
The Image Gallery, Stockholm (Sweden) |
| Renato Grome - Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2010 |
Self-discovery Channel, Sedition Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
2008 |
Vanitas, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
2007 |
Monash Gallery of Art, Melbourne (Australia) |
| Byron McMahon Gallery, Sydney (Australia) | |
| Essence, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma (Italy) | |
2005 |
Sandra Byron Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
2001 |
Nellie Castan Gallery, Melbourne (Australia) |
1999 |
Zinc Gallery at the Centre for the Arts, Boston (USA) |
1998 |
Byron Mapp Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
1996 |
Art House Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
1995 |
Art House Gallery, Sydney (Australia) |
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