"...Maiorana's world is one of characters endowed with a fundamental soul: the soul of the form of thought, which extracts a synthesis. Maiorana has grasped the spiritual nature of the world by transforming thoughts into sculptures that are symbols, emblems, deities..."
-Vittorio Sgarbi
Giuseppe Maiorana is a traveler, an explorer of our time, drawing nourishment from the past to look to the future. He experiences art as a means to convey sensations, experiences, cultures, places, scents, and colors rediscovered through his travels and brought into his works. He interprets and tells, feels, and listens...
Nature, the supreme artist, has created the most beautiful and fascinating forms we can imagine, the greatest variety of colors and shades, and all this has indelibly struck Giuseppe Maiorana's sensitivity, creating an imprint that has forever changed and influenced his life.
From a young age, his hands would travel over every material, stick, crayon, leaf, piece of pumice stone he found along the way. His intimate journey towards art is undoubtedly linked to the deep love his father had for this splendid creative universe and to his patience in explaining it to his son, who, although seemingly too young to understand every masterpiece in the museums they visited together, from the Uffizi to the Louvre to the Jeu de Paume in the Jardin de Tuileries, was deeply attracted to them.
For Giuseppe Maiorana, being an artist means, first and foremost, having something to transmit, to share, that derives from an experience and the ability to observe. He never forgets to emphasize that art is one of the highest forms of sharing.
As with any profession, the greatest teacher is life. If you live and not just survive, if you embrace every experience life gives you and treasure it, if in the stressful rush of daily routine you manage to stop, observe, meditate, and process, eventually an irresistible need to share grows within us.
To understand a work of art, we must know the life of the artist...
From a young age, Giuseppe has always observed the masterpieces of the great masters, learning to know himself and to understand what moved him. He sought to learn from each the love for beauty and the message they wished to transmit and immortalize. At 12, he read "The Agony and the Ecstasy" by Irving Stone, the life of Michelangelo Buonarroti from Ghirlandaio's workshop to the Sistine Chapel, and was fascinated by it.
There is a common thread that acts as a denominator and links his love for painting, photography, sculpture, and music: the great creative need, a great desire to communicate, to pass on.
Giuseppe's quest is a continuous search for the best form to express the world within himself. When he creates, he draws from his experience, from different periods of his intense life where he felt more comfortable using one form rather than another.
When he was photographing during his travels, he sought the perfect shot and sometimes found himself in the right place at the right time with the possibility of capturing the image in the best way, but at that moment he would stop, not take the shot, preferring to live the moment, feel the emotion, let it flow, and keep it in his heart, placing it in an imaginary drawer, from which to take it out to share it through his art.
In the evening before falling asleep, Giuseppe enters his world and it is at that moment that, as if by magic, the images of his experience knock at the door, take shape, move in his mind, the drawers of memory open, and the memories demand attention, wanting to become something tangible, wanting to come to life, wanting to be passed on and shared. Upon awakening, his hands travel over the wax and try to remember that sensation, that message from the night before that awaits to be forever included in one of his works.
Since 2024, Oblong Contemporary Gallery has chosen to accompany the artist on his creative journey, recognizing in him a strong expressive ability in shaping his sculptures capable of opening an honest and spontaneous dialogue with the public. The artist experiences art as the embodiment of human essence, a reflection of the soul that seeks to give form to the mysteries of life and existence itself. A journey into the intellect and emotion, a bridge between the tangible and the ineffable, capable of transforming the ordinary into the extraordinary and the everyday into the eternal.
