57 Dall’esperimento sociale dello psicologo Stanley Milgram nel 1967, all’era 3.0: Ossigeno applica la Teoria del Mondo Piccolo al proprio Nome d’Arte, attraverso la storia dell’arte e della cultura, in 6 celeberrimi gradi. From psychologist Stanley Milgram’s social experiment in 1967, to the 3.0 era: Ossigeno applies the Small-World Experiment to its own Stage Name, through the history of art and culture, in 6 world-famous degrees. seigradi / sixdegrees stage name id. no. NAME, SURNAME, OVERVIEW. Mustafa Sabbagh was born in Amman (Jordan). Italo-palestinian raised between Europe and the Middle East; his imprinting is cosmopolitan, while his attitude is nomadic. Former assistant of Richard Avedon and teacher at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design of London, after a successful career as a fashion photographer recognised by the most prestigious magazines in the world, Sabbagh decided to focus his research on contemporary art by means of photography and video-art, through a sort of aesthetic counter-canon in which the punctum is the skin, as a journal of individual uniqueness. Harmony of imperfection, psychological investigation and anthropological enquiry through the construction of the image are the stylistic features that Sabbagh transfers with self-assurance from the glossy pages to the white cubes of the most famous museums and galleries in the world – such as the Musée de l’Élysée, in Lausanne, which is considered to be the international temple of photography. He has often been protagonist of interviews and documentaries that delve into his visions. And in 2013, the Sky Arte HD Italian television channel – by means of the Fotografi (Photographers) series – chose him as one of the 8 most significant artists in the contemporary Italian scene, devoting a documentary to him. Today, Mustafa Sabbagh has been recognised by Peter Weiermair, an art photography historian, as one of the 100 most influential photographers in the world, and one of the 40 most important nude portraitists at international level – the only one from Italy. His works are present in a large number of internationally renowned publications (including Faces - the 70 most beautiful photography portraits of all time, by Peter Weiermair), in sold-out monographs (including About Skin, ed. Damiani, acquired and now at the London Tate Gallery Art Library) and in several public and private collections both in Italy and abroad - among which the historical Farnesina Art Collection and the acquisition of a whole project by the MAXXI-XXI Art National Museum in Rome, for its permanent collection of contemporary art. Following his first retrospective “XI Comandamento: Non Dimenticare” (XI commandment: Thou shalt not forget), Leoluca Orlando, Mayor of the city of Palermo, highly impressed by his work and in deep praise of his art and his sight focused on the extreme border of the horizon, decided to give him the honorary citizenship of the City of Palermo. During the same year, 2016, the theatre company Nèon (CT), took inspiration from his collected works for the production of the pièce “Invasions-dedicated to Mustafa Sabbagh”, which was reviewed by Panorama as one of the best theatre plays from 2016. www.mustafasabbagh.com “Real beauty hurts”. MS stage name curated by Fabiola Triolo nome d’arte 56
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