In 2011 he stages an impressive tree in Piazza Duomo, Milan with the participation of more than 600 people, to raise public awareness on the problem of pollution. His photo was chosen as the rappresentative picture of the event.
The work was also a part of the art exhibition Digitalife 2, among the works of Marina Abramovic, Christian Marclay, Carsten Nicolai, Ryoichi Kurokawa and many other eminent contemporary artist. In 2009 he worked on Afleur, an art project that later on resulted into a live show and an ecological object-book (2010).
In 2008 he works alongside Sakamoto and Fennesz on the Cendre tournèe, ending with the unforgettable final show at Ground Zero, New York. In 2007 he wins the prestigious Webby Award for the netart category, with the website Mono No Aware, an ecological web project to support the project Stop Rokkasho founded by Oscar winner Ryuichi Sakamoto. In 2006, he is awarded the prize for best career in Visual Arts by the same institution. In 2002 he graduates with honors in Digital Design at Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where he remains as a professor until 2004. For this reason, his practice also includes conferences and participatory projects geared towards the young generations, aimed at fostering a new ecological awareness.īorn in 1974 in Palermo, he grows up in Milazzo. For him, Art should be functional and develop into a ‘social architecture’. In particular, the water element flows throughout his entire artistic practice, becoming each time the subject or the context, at times even the medium.Īlways interested in the synesthetic experiences resulting from the interplay between artistic languages, today he focuses on photography, video and installations - three-dimensional, interactive or process-based.Īrt, spirituality and sustainability are woven together into his works through a relentless research on the human existence on the planet Earth.
Giuseppe La Spada is an interdisciplinary artist whose research explores the human-nature relationship, with the aim of sensitising the public to environmental issues.
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