The Author: Fausto Donnini

BIOGRAPHY

Fausto Donnini was born in Pisa (Italy), in 1958.

He was always been interested about black-and-white photography, so he has depth his studies in Germany, performing theorical and practical researches about Fine Art monochrome printing, significantly increasing his knowledge and skills. He keeps to follow his artistical and technical path, by studying works of classical american authors, special way the Ansel Adams's ones.

His passion, for landscapes and other natural subjects, is the consequence of a deep passion and a variety of studies performed by him about that kind of subjects. All the photographs of Fausto Donnini are printed and mounted in a passepartout by himself, using only long-lasting, acid-free methods.

Fausto Donnini exercises the photographer's profession since 1975, for over than thirty years. His photographs are often published in journals and periodical magazines, one of which is a periodical magazine about photography history, published by Photographical Archive of Tuscany, in Italy, where in 1996 he was described as follows: We can say that the author has choosen the path of romantic, such as the research of emotions. So these images do not require cerebral interpretation, but call for an abandonment to the most immediate sensations.

In the N° 326 of the magazine named «Immagini Fotopratica», the critical art reviewer Roberto Mutti, writes, about Fausto Donnini, in this way: A more experienced eye is enough, however, to recognize the accuracy in balancing of fullness and of emptyness, the wisely intersection of geometric lines, and surprising the observer by composing the vision of continually moving plans.

The critical art reviewer Roberto Mutti, in his review of the photographer's exhibition named «Black&White Arts» (Arte in Bianconero), held since March 19 to April 14, 2007, which was also published in «BlogLibri» of Hoepli, said: ... like any other blask-and-white art photographer, Fausto Donnini has never attempted to imitate the great masters of the past; if ever he has learned from them, he has analyzed their works, and then he have choosen his own way, where the landscape has a so important role, even if not an exclusive role. And it could not be otherwise, for a Tuscan, in front of whose eyes lie visions, of so a great charm.
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The magazine «Soprattutto» has published an interview with Fausto Donnini in August, 2000.

He has worked for the italian national museum Uffizi Gallery, he has participated in fine art exhibitions in different cities, some of which are:

• at italian National Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology, with the Fine Art exhibition entitled «Il controluce della Genesi»;
• at Caffé Storico Letterario «Giubbe rosse» in Florence, Italy, with the exhibition entitled «SGUARDI»;
• at italian Museum of Archaeology and Arts of Maremma, with «Nell'anima: un orizzonte»;
• at Municipal Library in Munich (Bavaria, Germany), since December 17, 2001 to March 8, 2002, exhibiting during the «Tuscany Photo Festival» ed. 2001, his collection «SGUARDI»;
• at the ACTA gallery in Rome, Italy, since November 21, 2001 to December 15, 2001, the collection «Terre d'Orizzonte».

He has participated, at the 1st International Festival in Rome, in 2002, and also in the Della Spina Church in Pisa, Italy, to the exhibition entitled «Steel Life», at August 13, 2002.

He teached in 2001, in the workshop entitled «Tuscany Photo Festival», in Massa Marittima (near Grosseto, Italy).

Some of the reviews, related to the exhibitions the photographer Fausto Donnini participated, were published on the Exibart.com website, in the section «Bibliography of Fausto Donnini».

Recently, Donnini has exhibited his works at the Malaspina Castle, in Massa (Tuscany, Italy, near Carrara), during the modern fine art exhibition entitled «Rosso Malaspina: La Città al Castello», since July 15 to 22, 2009.
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