Simone Caruso

Simone Caruso, Bronte (CT), 1992. First level degree from the course of New Painting Languages (2014). Second level degree from the course of Photography (2017), both at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. During the academic years he dedicated himself to the study of the language of images and their influence on contemporary society, with particular attention to technologies and how to spread and use them; research that will flow into the drafting of the thesis “The society of automatism”, partly available on the site of the Scuola Fuorinorma (the collective canecapovolto), with which he regularly collaborates from 2015 with workshops and cultural events. In 2014 he collaborated on the restoration of the work “Tavoli” (1995) by the collective Studio Azzurro in Paternò during the Festival dell’Archivio e del Patrimonio. In 2015 he was assistant to the production of the project “Migrants” by the Chinese artist Liu Bolin, with the duties of assistant painter and assistant to photography.

Today he lives and works in Catania.