Gianluca Maver
Gianluca Maver is an Italian photographer and educator whose practice focuses on visualizing human interaction with landscape, memory, and space. After graduating from the Fondazione Studio Marangoni in Florence in 1999, he established a career combining artistic research and teaching. His photographic language is rooted in minimal aesthetics and long term observation, leading to projects that interrogate traces, transformations, and environmental dynamics. Maver’s works have been shown across Europe and the U.S.. Underneath a description of 3 projects that explain his philosophy in photography.
Neo_Natura is a photographic project by Gianluca Maver exploring the fragile boundary between artificial and organic landscapes. Focused on areas where human activity mimics or alters natural ecosystems—such as abandoned greenhouses, reclaimed quarries, and engineered terrains—the series reflects on the shifting concept of “nature” in the Anthropocene.
Maver’s minimalist aesthetic and careful compositions evoke both beauty and discomfort, revealing environments caught between entropy and renewal. Rather than offering critique or nostalgia, the project becomes a contemplative inquiry into resilience, adaptation, and ecological transformation.
Shot primarily in Italy, Neo_Natura extends Maver’s broader exploration of landscape and human presence, encouraging viewers to question how nature is framed, manipulated, or replaced. The work has been featured in group exhibitions and is praised for its quiet urgency and visual clarity.
Nest is a long-term photographic series by Gianluca Maver focused on the idea of shelter, vulnerability, and improvised living. Centering on temporary structures and makeshift homes found at urban and rural edges, the project captures places shaped by necessity rather than design—spaces that speak of resilience, isolation, and dignity.
Maver photographs these environments with subtle framing and attention to absence, allowing the viewer to imagine the stories behind them. The structures, though often fragile or hidden, are portrayed with respect and quiet strength.
Nest engages with social and spatial questions, inviting reflection on the meaning of home, security, and invisibility in contemporary society. The project has been shown in solo and collective exhibitions across Europe and continues to resonate for its deeply human focus and poetic restraint.
In Web_2010 and Web_2012, Gianluca Maver turns his attention to the delicate architecture of spider webs as both subject and metaphor. Photographed in natural light and minimal settings, the webs—fleeting and fragile—become visual symbols of complexity, order, and transience.
The project plays with the dual meaning of the “web”—natural and digital—drawing subtle parallels between ecological systems and invisible networks that shape our lives. Through precise, minimalist compositions, Maver isolates these organic forms, revealing their quiet tension and fragile beauty.
Web_2012 continues this inquiry with greater abstraction, shifting toward more poetic, meditative images. The work explores interconnectedness and the impermanence of structures we take for granted.
Exhibited in Italy and internationally, the series is noted for its conceptual elegance and emotional nuance. For Maver, the spider web is a metaphorical lens—suggesting both the fragility of life and the invisible threads that bind our realities.
Exhibitions include Web_2010/Web_2012 at MIA, Milan Image Art Milano – Nest at Galleria Gallerati, Rome (2018), Villa Gaeta, (2014), Museo di Fotografia Contemporanea (Modena). Participation in Art Fairs as, The Others Torino, Arte fiera in Bologna, Kunst in Bolzano. His works are in collections such as Casa Masaccio (San Giovanni Valdarno, Italia), MoCA Fort Collins (USA),
Bibliography includes: Natural Forms (2011–14), Acqua (2013), Premio Tiziano – La Percezione Psicologica (Pietro Negri Editore, 2012)
MIA Fair catalogues (2011, 2013), Visage en Pose (2008), Un quartiere in movimento (2008), FotoGrafia, Festival Internazionale di Roma (2007)
Il senso del male/corpo (Premio San Fedele, 2005–07) Artista, 2007