Artistic consulent

Emanuela Alfano

She studies at the Academy of fine arts, with a bachelor’s degree in 2005. 

Her training matures in Giuseppe Leone’s photographic studio, where she has been working since 2006, and where she was able to broaden her knowledge about photography, about set-ups and organization of exhibitions and events, about post digital photo production for photographic books and analog development and printing.

In the photogallery she curated and set up the exhibitions, among the most important are those of Enzo Sellerio “Bambini” (Children) 2008; Giuliana Mariniello “La città invisibile” (The invisible city ) 2008; Ferdinando Scianna “Le fotografie e le cose” “Photographs and things ” 2009; “Women x Women” with Giuliana Mariniello, Claire Joubert, Malka Inbal, Susana Giron, Lucia Ganieva, Rania Akel 2011.

Over the years she has set up Giuseppe Leone’s exhibitions: Ciminiere (Chimneys), Catania “Immaginario barocco” (Baroque Imagery) 2007; Villa Cattolica, Bagheria “Un viaggio lungo mezzo secolo” (A journey half a century long ) 2008; Diocesan Museum Catania; ” la Settimana Santa nella pietà popolare” (Holy week in popular piety), 2014.

She also oversaw the digital post-production of the photos for Giuseppe Leone’s photographic books, some of which: “Altri volti” (Other faces), Gesualdo Bufalino Foundation 2007; “Sciascia dalla Sicilia alla Spagna”(Sciascia from Sicily to Spain), Federico Motta Publisher 2009; “Siciliani in piazza” (Sicilians on the square), Carlo Combi Publisher 2010; “Storia di un’amicizia”(Story of a friendship) and “Sicilia- l’isola del pensiero” (Sicily- the island of thought ) Postcart Publisher 2015.

From 2012 she began her own training linked to the coordination and curation of painting and photo exhibitions.

Among the curated exhibitions: co-curator “Element(s)”, De Leva Palace, Modica 2012; “Entropia -percorsi e sguardi attraverso i linguaggi artistici contemporanei” (Entropy – paths and gazes through contemporary artistic languages), Fiesole Hall of Paving, 2013; “Realtà fluida, Elda Carbonaro sul segno degli artisti # 16” (Fluid reality, Elda Carbonaro in the name of the artists # 16), Bufalino Foundation, Comiso 2013; “(Co)Incidenze” (Co)Incidences, De Leva Palace 2014; “Nymph Arethusa Iconografie Estetiche “(Nymph Arethusa Aesthetic Iconographies), Montevergini Gallery , Siracusa 2014; “Dialogo” (Dialogue) Ettore Pinelli and Giovanni Viola De Leva Palace Modica 2015; “Autonomie del disegno” (Autonomies of the drawing) 2015; “Visioni Dissolventi” (Fading Visions) personal from Francesco Rinzivillo Spazio Cultura Meno Assenza Pozzallo (Space Culture Less Absence); “Un puro nulla” (a pure Nothing)collective exhibition Sacca Contenitore di Sicilianità Pozzallo 2020.

Among the Publications: critical text for the exhibition “Il giardino di Demetra” (Demeter’s garden) 2017; critical text for Giuseppe Leone in the book “Italia intima, dal Neorealismo spunti di contemporaneità” (Intimate Italy, from Neorealism ideas of contemporaneity), Punto Marte Publisher 2018.


Moderator during the meeting with Giovanni Bianco at the Artificio Studio in Agrigento 2016.

Agent artist at the exhibition “Eros” by Giuseppe Leone during the European nude festival in Arles, France 2018.

She lives and works in Ragusa.

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