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Untitled - FONDACO

COMMUNIQUE DE PRESSE
OFFICINA est heureuse d’annoncer le vernissage le 19 avril prochain
de La PELLE, une exposition collective par FONDACO
La PELLE (La PEAU)
A chaque pas, nous caressons la peau de la terre, manifestant ainsi notre affection pour le monde. Une
caresse qui s’est produite au fil des siècles, inconsciemment parfois, mais sans relâche. Contact primordial
du geste artistique. La genèse de la perception passe du corps à la vue, silhouette reflétée sur la rétine, la
peau de l’image, l’origine tactile du regard.
Le leit motiv de l’exposition La PELLE est l’attirance d’un dialogue entre le corps et le
monde, tant d’un point de vue ontologique que d’un point de vue philologique. Les
tensions créatives des artistes participant à l’exposition, qui s’expriment chaque fois d’une
manière originale, dans un langage nouveau et suivant une piste de recherche différente,
trouvent leur origine commune dans le corps humain, élément central qui permet
d’expérimenter le monde. Ce n’est qu’après avoir senti, vu, touché, entendu le monde, que
l’on peut commencer à se souvenir et à imaginer, pour pouvoir être en mesure de
redessiner la réalité et reconstruire notre identité.
Dans la recherche menée par Grilli, Dell’Angelo e Losi, c'est dans la presence physique
‘ici et dans le moment présent’, que l’énergie du corps, entrant en contact avec les objets,
la matière et les lieux, est explorée en temps réel. Ce contact conduit à de nouvelles
formes de conscience qui dérivent de, et portent à la lumière, la conscience de notre
énergie transformatrice.
Le contact « peau à peau » est au cœur des travaux de Fineschi, Magni, Maccari,
Cattaneo et Piangiamore. Il exprime une grande symbiose entre l'artiste et son travail,
la possibilité de passer d’une perception sensorielle à une autre. Dans le cadre du
processus d’accumulation ou de soustraction de la matière, et de la relation de l’artiste
avec l’espace (habité ou habitable), cet élément génère un processus de libération.
Dans les travaux de Morganti, Corsini et Montani, la peau devient une métaphore et
exprime la recherche d’une dimension absolue de la couleur et des objets habités,
enquêtant ainsi sur la relation entre l’essence et la forme.
La forme et ses courants souterrains deviennent, dans les travaux de Di Maggio, De
Mattei et Guido, la structure architectonique qui soutient et met en relation l’organique
et l’inorganique, paradigme de l’âme des choses.
La peau est également la peau de l’ « autre », ce qui existe en dehors de nous-mêmes :
dans leurs travaux, Roma, Pediconi, Della Valle, Lauretta et Cotognini visent, même
en faisant des digressions mythologiques, à une vision de Pan, bougeant avec précaution,
mais en même temps avec l’envie libératrice d’abattre les barrières, les limites entre l’être
humain et la nature.
AVANT-PREMIERE POUR LA PRESSE
12 avril à 12h
(déjeuner léger et présentation en présence de quelques
membres de FONDACO)
Ave Général de Gaulle 45 -1050 Bruxelles
Veuillez svp confirmer votre participation
par email: [email protected]
ou par tel 0476 575749
VERNISSAGE
Mardi 19 avril de 18 à 21h
HEURES D'OUVERTURE DE L'EXPOSITION
Mercredi 20, Gallery night: de 14 à 21h
Jeudi 21: de 14 à 20h
Vendredi 22: de 14 à 20h
Samedi 23: de 14 à 20h
Dimanche 24: de 11 à 13h GOLDEN AGE
Performance de Francesca Grilli (uniquement sur invitation)
L’exposition restera ouverte au public jusqu’au 3 juillet sur RV
Pour prendre RV, veuillez svp envoyer un email à [email protected] ou appeler le 32 499 618782
EVENEMENT LIE A L’EXPOSITION
A l’occasion d’une visite privée de l’exposition, Francesca Grilli fera une performance (dimanche 24
avril, de 11 a 13h, uniquement sur invitation). L’oeuvre de Francesca Grilli a été exposée à la Biennale
de Venise en 2013; l’artiste a pris part à de nombreux festivals d'"Art Performance".
Ses performances se fondent sur la participation et l’expérience; le corps et ses potentialités sont au
centre de sa recherche. Ses ‘provocations’ à d'autres artistes de performance et aux spectateurs
visent à les impliquer de manière proactive, les conduisant à assumer un risque, à accepter de faire
un geste de délivrance généreuse, ainsi qu’il en est pour l’artiste.
Le catalogue de l’exposition, imprimé par Gli Ori, Editori Contemporanei, sera présenté en juin, à une
date qui sera communiquée ultérieurement.
LA PELLE (La Peau)
Exposition collective
Alice Cattaneo
Vittorio Corsini
Fabrizio Cotognini
Martina della Valle
Marta Dell’Angelo
Michela de Mattei
Elisabetta Di Maggio
Serena Fineschi
Francesca Grilli
Michele Guido
Claudia Losi
Francesco Lauretta
Claudio Maccari
Marco Andrea Magni
Matteo Montani
Maria Morganti
Beatrice Pediconi
Alessandro Piangiamore
Alessandro Roma
La PELLE marque le début des activités de
FONDACO à Bruxelles. FONDACO est une
association d’artistes fondée en 2015, qui
compte à présent dix-neuf membres, et a
pour finalité d’accroître la présence de l’art
italien sur la scène internationale. Le rôle de
commissaire d’exposition est exprimé
collectivement sur base de propositions
volontaires des artistes participants. Le réseau
d’échange d’idées entre artistes vise aussi à
devenir un réseau d’échange entre les
artistes et le public. La dimension
‘domestique’ dans laquelle FONDACO
présente ses travaux, s’écartant de
l’approche institutionnelle et commerciale,
cherche à faciliter des modes plus informels
et naturels de s’approcher de l’art.
FONDACO entend rester actif sur la scène
artistique de Bruxelles après cette exposition.
OFFICINA, une Associazione Culturale dont
les fondateurs ont décidé, dès la fondation
de mettre leur résidence privée à la
disposition d'artistes, offre son espace
d'exposition ainsi que son soutien et son
partenariat à Fondaco.
Pour plus d’information sur chaque artiste
et des photos d’oeuvres
www.fondaco.net / www.officinart.com
Associazione Culturale - Sede Legale Via del Corso, 504 00186 Roma - C.F. 97764440588
Exhibition space - Avenue du Général de Gaulle 45 1050 Brussels - [email protected] - www.officinart.com
PERSBERICHT
OFFICINA nodigt u met genoegen uit voor de vernissage op 19 april van
La PELLE, een groepstentoonstelling van FONDACO
La PELLE (Huid)
Hand over hand strelen we de huid van de wereld, tonen we onze genegenheid voor de wereld. Deze
streling duurt al eeuwen, onbewust soms, maar houdt nooit op. Ze vormt de basis van het artistieke
gebaar. De perceptie verloopt van het lichaam naar de blik, de vorm die op het netvlies wordt weerspiegeld,
de huid van het beeld, de tastbare oorsprong van het zien.
Het leitmotiv van de tentoonstelling La PELLE is de aantrekingskracht van een dialoog
tussen het lichaam en de wereld in zowel ontologisch als filologisch opzicht.
De creatieve spanningen van de kunstenaars die aan de tentoonstelling deelnemen en
zich telkens op een andere wijze uiten, in een andere taal en na een ander
onderzoekstraject, vinden hun gemeeschappelijke oorsprong in het menselijk lichaam, dat
centraal staat in onze ervaring van de wereld. Pas nadat de wereld werd gevoeld, gezien,
aangeraakt, gehoord kan een proces van herinnering en verbeelding worden ingezet waarbij
de werkelijkheid kan worden hertekend en onze identiteit worden heropgebouwd.
Grilli, Dell’Angelo en Losi onderzoeken in real time, in de fysieke aanwezigheid hic et
nunc, de energie van het lichaam dat in contact treedt met materie, voorwerpen en
plaatsen. Dit contact leidt tot nieuwe vormen van bewustzijn die voortvloeien uit het
bewustzijn van ons transformatievermogen en dit ook aan het licht brengen.
In de werken van Fineschi, Magni, Maccari, Cattaneo en Piangiamore staat het
contact “huid tegen huid” centraal. Er is sprake van een sterke synesthesie tussen
kunstenaar en werk, van de mogelijkheid om van één zintuigelijke gewaarwording over te
gaan naar een andere. Via ingrepen waarbij materie ofwel wordt toegevoegd ofwel wordt
weggenomen wordt in het kader van de relatie van de kunstenaar met de (bewoonde of
bewoonbare) ruimte een proces van bevrijding op gang gebracht.
In de werken van Morgant, Corsini en Montani wordt de huid een metafoor en duidt
ze op het zoeken naar een absolute dimensie van kleur en bewoonde voorwerpen, alsook
naar de relatie tussen wezen en vorm. Vorm en onderaardse stromingen worden in de
werken van Di Maggio, De Mattei en Guido de architectonische structuur die het
organische verbindt met het anorganische, het paradigma van de ziel van de dingen.
De huid is ook de huid van het “andere”, van hetgeen buiten ons bestaat. In de werken
van Roma, Pediconi, Della Valle, Lauretta en Cotognini gaat het, ook via
mythologische uitweidingen, om een visie van Pan. Hoewel voorzichtig tewerk wordt
gegaan, is ook het verlangen aanwezig naar bevrijding, naar het slechten van
belemmeringen, van de grenzen tussen mens en natuur. PREVIEW VOOR DE PERS
op 12 april om 12 uur
(lichte lunch en presentatie in aanwezigheid
van enkele leden van FONDACO)
av. Général de Gaulle 45 – 1050 Brussel
Gelieve uw deelname te bevestigen per mail [email protected]
of tel. 0476 575749
VERNISSAGE
op dinsdag 19 april van 18 tot 21 uur
OPENINGSTIJDEN VAN DE TENTOONSTELLING
woensdag 20 april, Gallery night: van 14 tot 21 uur
donderdag 21 april: van 14 tot 20 uur
vrijdag 22 april: van 14 tot 20 uur
zaterdag 23 april: van 14 tot 20 uur
zondag 24 april: alleen op afspraak GOLDEN AGE
Performance van Francesca Grilli (uitsluitend op uitnodiging)
De tentoonstelling kan op afspraak worden bezocht tot 3 juli.
Voor een afspraak kunt u mailen naar [email protected] of bellen naar 32 499 618782.
IN DE MARGE VAN DE TENTOONSTELLING
Op zondag 24 april kan, uitsluitend op uitnodiging, van 11 tot 13 uur een performance van Francesca
Grilli worden bijgewoond.
Francesca Grilli heeft werk getoond tijdens de Biënnale van Venetië in 2013 en deelgenomen aan tal
van performance-kunstfestivals. Haar performances zijn gebaseerd op participatie en ervaring terwijl
haar onderzoek toegespitst is op het lichaam en zijn mogelijkheden. Haar "provocaties" ten aanzien
van andere performers en toeschouwers zijn erop gericht hen proactief in te schakelen, hen ertoe
aan te zetten een risico te nemen en een grootmoedig bevrijdend gebaar te stellen. Hetzelfde geldt
overigens ook voor de kunstenares zelf.
De catalogus van de tentoonstelling, uitgegeven door Gli Ori, Editori Contemporanei, zal worden
gepresenteerd in juni, op een later mee te delen tijdstip.
La PELLE (Huid)
Groepstentoonstelling
Alice Cattaneo
Vittorio Corsini
Fabrizio Cotognini
Martina della Valle
Marta Dell’Angelo
Michela de Mattei
Serena Fineschi
Francesca Grilli
Michele Guido
Claudia Losi
Francesco Lauretta
Claudio Maccari
Marco Andrea Magni
Matteo Montani
Maria Morganti
Beatrice Pediconi
Alessandro Roma
La PELLE vormt het begin van de activiteiten
van FONDACO te Brussel. FONDACO is een in
2015 opgerichte vereniging van kunstenaars,
die thans 19 leden telt en tot doel heeft de
Italiaanse kunst een grotere zichtbaarheid te
geven op internationaal vlak. De rol van
curator van de tentoonstelling wordt
collectief ingevuld op basis van vrijwillige
voorstellen van de deelnemende
kunstenaars. Het netwerk voor
gedachtewisseling tussen kunstenaars is er
ook op gericht uit te groeien tot een netwerk
voor uitwisseling tussen kunstenaars en
publiek. De “huiselijk” context waarin
FONDACO zijn werken tentoonstelt, verschilt
van een institutionele en commerciële
aanpak en streeft naar meer informele en
natuurlijke benaderingswijzen van kunst.
FONDACO is voornemens ook na deze
tentoonstelling op de Brusselse artistieke
scène actief te blijven.
OFFICINA, een culturele vereniging waarvan
de oprichters van meet af aan hebben beslist
hun privéwoning te Brussel ter beschikking te
stellen van kunstenaars, heeft FONDACO
haar tentoonstellingsruimte, ondersteuning en
medewerking verleend.
Meer informatie over elke kunstenaar
en foto's van hun werken is te vinden op
PRESS RELEASE
OFFICINA is pleased to announce the opening on 19 April of La PELLE,
a group exhibition by FONDACO
La PELLE (Skin)
Step by step we caress the skin of the earth, showing our affection for the world. A caressing gesture which
has taken place for century, at times absent-mindedly, but always relentlessly. Primordial contact of the
artistic gesture. The genesis of feeling shifts from body to vision, shape reflected on the retina, the skin of
the image, the tactile origin of the gaze.
The attraction for a dialogue between the body and the world, both in its ontological and
philological sense, constitues the leit motiv of the exhibition La PELLE.
The creative tensions expressed by the participating artists in many different ways and
languages and according to different research paths, originate from a common matrix:
the body as the principal element enabling to experience the world. It is only after having
felt, seen, touched, heard the world, that we can start to remember and imagine, in order for
us to be able to re-draw the reality and re-build our self.
In the research carried out by Grilli, Dell’Angelo and Losi, it is in the physical presence,
“in the here and now”, that body energy, coming into contact with objects, materials and
places, is explored in real time. This contact leads to new forms of awareness drawing
from, and bringing to light, the consciousness of our transformative energy.
The performing process of the “skin to skin” contact is at the core of the works by
Fineschi, Magni, Maccari, Cattaneo and Piangiamore. It underlines a strong
synaesthesia component between the artist and the work, the possibility of shifting from
one sensory path to another. In the context of the process of accumulation or
subtraction of the matter, and of the artist's relationship with (inhabited and inhabitable)
space, this element generates a process of liberation.
In the works by Morganti, Corsini and Montani, the skin becomes a metaphor and
expresses the search for an absolute dimension of the colour and the inhabited objects,
thus exploring the relationship between essence and form.
The skin and its reticular undercurrents become, in the works by Di Maggio, De Mattei
and Guido, the architectural structure supporting and putting in relation the organic and
the inorganic, paradigm of the soul of things.
Skin is also the skin of the “other”, what stands outside us: in their works, Roma,
Pediconi, Della Valle, Lauretta and Cotognini, aim, including by making historicalmythological digressions, at a Panic vision, moving with caution, but at the same time
with the liberating desire to tear down barriers, the boundaries between the human being
and nature.
PRESS PREVIEW
12 April at 12 noon
(light lunch and presentation with the participation of some
FONDACO’smembers)
Ave Général De Gaulle 45 - 1050 Bruxelles
Pls confirm attendance by email: [email protected]
or phone 0476 575749
EXHIBITION’s opening
Tuesday 19 April from 6 to 9 pm
EXHIBITION’s OPENING HOURS Wednesday 20, Gallery night: from 2 to 9 pm
Thursday 21: from 2 to 8 pm
Friday 22: from 2 to 8 pm
Saturday 23: from 2 to 8 pm
Sunday 24: from 11 to 1 pm GOLDEN AGE
Performance by Francesca Grilli (by invitation only)
The exhibition will remain open to the public by appointment until 3rd July.
For appointments pls email: [email protected] or call +32 499 618782
RELATED EVENT
On the occasion of a private view of the exhibition, Francesca Grilli will carry out a performance
(Sunday 24 April, 11-1pm by invitation only). Francesca Grilli’s work was shown at the 2013 Venice
Biennale; she has participated in a number of Art Performance Festivals. Her performance is based on
participation and experiment; the body and its potentials are at the centre of her research. Her
‘provocations’ to performers and spectators aim at involving them in a proactive way, leading them
to assuming a risk, to accept making a gesture of generous self-deliverance, as it is for the artist.
The catalog of the exhibition, printed by Gli Ori, Editori Contemporanei, will be presented in June.
Date will be communicated later.
LA PELLE (Skin)
Group exhibition
Alice Cattaneo
Vittorio Corsini
Fabrizio Cotognini
Martina della Valle
Marta Dell’Angelo
Michela de Mattei
Serena Fineschi
Francesca Grilli
Michele Guido
Claudia Losi
Francesco Lauretta
Claudio Maccari
Marco Andrea Magni
Matteo Montani
Maria Morganti
Beatrice Pediconi
Alessandro Roma
Editors’note
La PELLE marks the opening of FONDACO's
activities in Brussels. FONDACO is an artists'
association founded in 2015, consisting now
of 19 members and aiming at enhancing
contemporary Italian art presence on the
international scene. The curatorial role is
expressed collectively with participants'
voluntary proposals. The exchange network
between artists aims also at becoming a
network of exchange of ideas between artists
and the public. The 'domestic' dimension in
which FONDACO presents art works, moving
away from the usual institutional and
commercial approach, pursues different,
more informal and natural ways of coming
closer to art. FONDACO's intention is to remain
active on the Brussels art scene after this
exhibition.
Officina, an Associazione Culturale the
founders of which had decided, since the
origin, to put their Brussels private residence at
the disposal of artists, has offered its exhibition
space and its support and partnership to
FONDACO.
Detailed information as well as photos
of selected works of each artist
can be found in
COMUNICATO STAMPA
OFFICINA è lieta di annunciare l’inaugurazione il 19 aprile prossimo de La Pelle,
una mostra collettiva di FONDACO
La PELLE
Passo dopo passo accarezziamo l’epidermide della terra compiendo un gesto di affezione nei confronti del
mondo. Carezza che si compie da secoli, a volte distrattamente, ma inesorabilmente. Contatto primordiale
del gesto artistico. La genesi del sentire si sposta dal corpo alla visione, forma riflessa nella retina, pelle
dell’immagine, origine tattile dello sguardo.
Nel progetto La Pelle si disvela, in molti modi e con differenti tracce di ricerca,
l’attrazione per un dialogo e le possibili tangenze tra corpo/mondo, nei suoi aspetti
ontologici e filologici. Le tensioni creative, espresse dalle opere degli artisti italiani
presenti in mostra , hanno una matrice comune: il corpo come elemento principe che ci
consente di esperire il mondo; solo dopo aver “sentito, visto, toccato, ascoltato”
possiamo ricordare e immaginare per giungere a ri-disegnare il reale e a ri-edificare il
nostro Se’.
Nella ricerca di Grilli, Dell’Angelo e Losi è la presenza fisica “nel qui e ora” in cui
l’energia del corpo, in contatto con oggetti, materiali e luoghi, viene sperimentata in
tempo reale e conduce a nuove forme di consapevolezza che attingono e portano alla
luce la coscienza di una nostra energia trasformativa.
La processualità performativa del contatto “pelle a pelle” - anima delle opere di Fineschi,
Magni, Maccari, Cattaneo e Piangiamore - sottolinea una forte componente
sinestesica fra l’artista e l’opera capace di generare processi liberatori nelle fasi di
accumulazione o sottrazione della materia e di rapporto con lo spazio occupato e
occupabile.
Nelle opere di Morganti, Corsini e Montani la pelle diviene metafora ed esprime la
ricerca di una dimensione assoluta del colore e degli oggetti abitati, indagando il rapporto
tra essenza e forma.
La pelle e le sue sottotracce reticolari, nei lavori di De Mattei, Di Maggio e Guido,
costituiscono la struttura architettonica di sostegno e di relazione tra mondo organico e
inorganico, paradigma dell’anima delle cose.
La pelle è anche quella dell’”altro”, di ciò che sta fuori da noi: nelle loro opere Roma,
Pediconi , Della Valle, Lauretta e Cotognini, anche con excursus storico-mitologici,
tendono a una visione panica, avanzando con timore, ma al contempo con desiderio
liberatorio di abbattere i limiti, il confine tra uomo e natura.
PRESS PREVIEW
12 aprile ore 12
(brunch e presentazione con la partecipazione di alcuni
membri di Fondaco)
Avenue Général de Gaulle 45 -1050 Bruxelles
Confermare la presenza scrivendo a: [email protected]
oppure telefonando al numero: 0476 575749
INAUGURAZIONE
martedì 19 aprile dalle 18 alle 21
ORARI DI APERTURA DELLA MOSTRA
20 aprile, Gallery night: dalle 14 alle 21
21 – 22 – 23 – 24 aprile: dalle 14 alle 20
24 aprile: dalle 11 alle 13 GOLDEN AGE
Performance di Francesca Grilli (solo su invito)
La mostra resterà aperta al pubblico su appuntamento fino al 3 luglio 2016.
Per appuntamenti si prega di contattare: [email protected]
oppure telefonare al numero +32 499 618782
SPECIAL EVENT
Nella giornata riservata alla private view della mostra, Francesca Grilli realizzerà una performance
dedicata a questa occasione (Domenica 24 Aprile 11-13, solo su invito).
Francesca Grilli ha partecipato nel 2013 alla Biennale di Venezia e a numerosi Art Performance
Festival. Le sue performance sperimentano varie forme partecipative in cui il corpo e le sue
potenzialità sono al centro della sua ricerca artistica. Le “provocazioni” ai performers e al pubblico,
messe in atto nelle sue performance, tendono a un loro coinvolgimento proattivo, portandoli
all’assunzione di un ‘rischio’ nell’accettare e sperimentare gesti di generosa auto-liberazione, come
lo sono per l'artista stessa.
Il catalogo della mostra, edito da Gli Ori Editori Contemporanei, sarà presentato nel mese di giugno
2016. La data sarà comunicata in seguito.
La PELLE
Gli artisti
Alice Cattaneo
Vittorio Corsini
Fabrizio Cotognini
Martina della Valle
Marta Dell’Angelo
Michela de Mattei
Serena Fineschi
Francesca Grilli
Michele Guido
Claudia Losi
Francesco Lauretta
Claudio Maccari
Marco Andrea Magni
Matteo Montani
Maria Morganti
Beatrice Pediconi
Alessandro Roma
La PELLE segna l'inizio delle attività
di FONDACO a Bruxelles.
FONDACO è un'associazione di artisti
fondata nel 2015, che conta attualmente
19 membri e ha la finalità di accrescere la
presenza dell'arte italiana contemporanea
sulla scena internazionale. Il ruolo curatoriale
viene espresso collegialmente sulla base di
proposte volontarie degli artisti facenti parte
del gruppo. La rete di scambio tra artisti
ambisce a divenire rete di scambio tra artisti
e fruitori. La dimensione 'domestica' in cui
FONDACO presenta le opere d'arte,
discostandosi dalle sedi istituzionali
e commerciali, auspica modi e forme
di avvicinamento all'arte più informali
e confidenti.
Officina, un'Associazione Culturale i cui
fondatori hanno deciso sin dall'origine,
di mettere a disposizione degli artisti la loro
residenza privata a Bruxelles, ha offerto
a FONDACO il suo spazio espositivo nonché
il suo sostegno e partenariato.
Informazioni dettagliate e brevi portfolio degli
artisti sono visibili su:
www.fondaco.net
www.officinart.com
Courtesy Officina and Fondaco
Photos by: Tim Van De Velde
Golden Age,
works by Francesca Grilli
works by
Maria Morganti (on the left and on the right)
Vittorio Corsini (in the middle)
works by
Serena Fineschi
(on the left)
Claudio Maccari
(in the middle)
Beatrice Pediconi
(on the right)
frame from Marta Dell’Angelo’s video AGENTE 03
frame from
Alice Cattaneo’s video 150 cm
works by
Serena Fineschi
(on the left)
Elisabetta di Maggio
(in the centre)
Claudia Losi
(on the right)
works by
Fabrizio Cotognini
(on the left and the right)
Alessandro Roma
(in the centre)
works by
Alice Cattaneo (in the foreground )
Michele Guido (right background)
Serena Fineschi (on the right)
from the left works by
Alessandro Piangiamore,
Alessandro Roma,
Fabrizio Cotognini,
Alessandro Roma
works by
Michela de Mattei
(on the left)
Marco Andrea Magni
(in the centre)
Matteo Montani
(on the right)
Maria Morganti, Sedimentazione Venezia, 2008
Vittorio Corsini, Tools 14, 2015
Serena Fineschi, Recto-Verso, 2016
Beatrice Pediconi,
Alien Solo #1, Alien Solo #2,
Alien Solo #3 , 2015
Claudio Maccari,
Untitled, 2016
Martina Della Valle,
CIEL #4, 2014
Matteo Montani,
Le cose nel rovescio, 2016
Claudia Losi, Asking Shleter /chiedere riparo, 2015
Elisabetta di Maggio,
Cabbage, 2011
Claudia Losi, Asking Shleter /chiedere riparo, 2015
Francesco Lauretta, Stele, 2016
Michele Guido, Robn_23.02.2011_01.12_
studio per mausoleo _ piramide_ 1499/2015, 2015
Serena Fineschi,
Untitled, 2016
Michela de Mattei, Taglio, IMG_0278.JPG, 2016
Marco Andrea Magni, L’Hote, 2016
Matteo Montani, Glimmer/Barlume, 2014
Alessandro Piangiamore, Untitled (daily), 2016
Fabrizio Cotognini, Beyond the Skin, 2016
Alessandro Roma,
Untitled, 2013
Alessandro Roma, Untitled, 2015
Elisabetta Di Maggio, Untitled, 2014
Vittorio Corsini, Tools, 2015
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I live and work in Milano.
My work is moving along two tracks: the image that originated before the work itself and the material that suggests a
gesture. These two tracks come together at some point and, through matter, the original image becomes thought. So the
process of producing the art work implies continuous changes, cancellations and new beginnings. Like when you are faced
with a very beautiful landscape and you have the feeling that you can not really see it, you are stuck in front of this vision.
Then something starts to happen and you can see the first details. My work originates from a feeling of this kind, by a sort
of contradiction, by an inability to see which makes you stop in that suspended space that exists just before a real perception
of the world. The connections between things, labile or solid, have always been at the origin of major questions arising in
my work. Everything is constructed through a non-hierarchical and non-linear system. My sculptures come from an image
that originates before the work itself. This image develops and takes shape during the execution process, since it involves
the contradictions and limits of the materials, often leading me in unexpected directions.
Education
2004 Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2001 BA (honours) Degree in Fine Art, Environmental Art, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
Solo Exhibitions
2016 2015 2012 2009 2005 2004 Un qui puntiforme unitissimo, Galleria collicaligreggi, Catania
Assonometrie, two-person show with Antonio Catelani, Rizzuto Gallery, Palermo
Tensioni e-statiche, two-person show with Hilla Ben Ari, Galleria Marie-Laure Fleisch, Rome 2013 Nothing quite flat and more round, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco
Contrapositive, two-person Exhibition with Fred Sandback, Galerie Stadtpark, Krems (A) 2011 Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Premio NY Exhibition, International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York (con S.Arancio) 2008 Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
MADRE Museo d’ Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples 2007 Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, curated by Jonathan Watkins
Special Project, Art Forum Berlin 2006 Analix Forever, Geneva
Galleria Suzy Shammah, Milan
Micro-Macro, a cura di E. DiRaddo, Tufano Studio25, Milan c/o Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
Concrete Particularities, Mission17, San Francisco
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
2016 La PELLE, by Fondaco, hosted by Officina, Brussels (upcoming) Premio VAF, Macro Testaccio, Rome (upcoming)
2015 Chaotic Passion, curated by A.Lovecchio e CHAN, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genoa
La Quarta Vetrina, curated by F. Pasini, Libreria delle Donne, Milan
CArD in citta’, Percorsi d’arte tra passato e presente, curated by P. Baldacci, D. Volpi, Antiquarium Santa Margherita, Piacenza Moroso Concept for Contemporary Art, curated by A. Bruciati, Villa Manin, Passariano, Udine
2014 CArD Contemporary Art & Design, curated by P.Baldacci, D. Volpi, C. Baldacci, Pianello, Val Tidone, Piacenza Ritratto dell’Artista da Giovane, curated by M.Beccaria, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (TO)
Equilibri, curated by L.Cherubini e E.Fiorentini, Galleria Erica Fiorentini, Rome
Non-Profit & Profit, Galleria SpazioA, Pistoia
2013 Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del Femminile nell’Arte Italiana Contemporanea, section curated by F.Pasini, Museo d’Arte Moderna Bologna Arte in memoria, curated by Adachiara Zevi, Sinagoga di Ostia Antica, Rome
2012 Performing Structures, curated by S.Simoncelli, Wascherei Kunstverein, Zurich
The Unseen, The Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, curated by J.Watkins, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou (RC)
Periplo della Scultura Italiana Contemporanea 3, curated by G.Appella, MUSMA, Matera Collaboration curated 2011 by San Rocco Magazine, 13. Biennal of Architecture, Venice
Segni e (non) sogni. Sperimentalismi e astrazioni, ieri e oggi, curated by G. Verzotti, MiArt, Milan
Italian Genius Now, curated by M. Bazzini - Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato/ Santander Cultural, Porto Alegre Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
Ceci n’est Pas du Cinema! Rivoli al Cinema, curated by M.Beccaria, Cinema Massimo, Turin
Arte essenziale, a project of F.Ferrari, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Biennale Giovani Monza, Villa Reale, Monza
Grants and Awards
2015 2012 2009 2007 2006 2004 2003 Moroso Concept for Contemporary Art, Udine (finalist)
Premio Lombardia Arte, Regione Lombardia, Miart, Milan
Premio New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Italian Academy at Columbia University, New York 2008 IX Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan
Borsa per Giovani Artisti, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (finalist)
Emerging Talents, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Fond. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence (finalist) Premio Adolfo Pini per l’Arte Contemporanea, Fondazione Adolfo Pini, Milan (finalist)
Premio Furla per l’Arte, Villa delle Rose, Bologna (special mention)
Premio Epson, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
Teaching Assistantship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts, The San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco 2002 MFA Merit Fellowship, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Residencies
2015 2014 2013 2009 2006 Madeinfilandia, Pieve a Presciano, Pergine Valdarno (AR)
AIR - Artist in Residence, Krems, Austria
Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, con il supporto dell’ Istituto Italiano di Cultura di San Francisco
International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York
Fragmented City, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Como
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I live and work in Florence, Italy.
From the start and through several declinations, my research has focused on the theme of inhabiting as a mental archetype
or as a place where individuals define and fulfill themselves.
My works have always staged a suspended condition between the memory of inhabiting and its real possibility.
In its version both as object or environment as well as on an urban scale, the image of the house is a constant icon in my
research.
I have always been drawn to the profiles of things more than the things themselves or their bodies. Throughout the years,
I have made a sort of visual inventory of the elements of a dwelling: sculptures and essential installations in the form that
recalls everyday use objects, but is also capable of triggering emotions and reflections; a constitutive material fragility
corresponds to the absolute iconographic sketchiness and stiffness of silhouettes. Glass in fact has always been a material
loved for the inevitable stress reaction it triggers and the consequent care and attention it requires.
Solo Exhibitions
(2007/2015)
2015
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2013
2012
2011
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2007
Il peso del carrello e altre storie, Galleria Cardi, Pietrasanta.
Reaching the landscape, galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Firenze
Once Upon a Time, Gazelli Art House, Londra
INCIPIT VITA NOVA, Fortezza Nuova, Livorno
Tra voci, carte, voci e notturni, Galleria Civica di Modena, Palazzina dei Giardini. Modena
La costola delle cose, Galleria Giacomo Guidi, Roma
Qualcosa accade, Fortino, Forte dei Marmi
XENIA-roma, museo MACRO, Roma
Macrowall - Eighties are back , Museo MACRO, Roma
Esercizio 1, Corsoveneziaotto Arte Contemporanea, Milano.
Orange mood, outsider project, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Firenze.
Codice rosso, affissioni Milano, presentazione progetto albertoaperto, Milano
UOMINI, installazione permanente, ospedale di Campostaggia, Poggibonsi
Walkabout, Museo Oratorio di Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna.
Chi mi parla?, Piazza della chiesa, Luicciana, Cantagallo.
GOD SAVE The PEOPLE, galleria Claudio Poleschi arte contemporanea, Lucca
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
2016 La PELLE, by Fondaco, hosted by Officina, Brussels (upcoming)
2015 Synchronicity, Museo di Palazzo Pretorio, Prato
The wolf and the tiger, Palazzo della permanente, Milano.
Bocconi Art Gallery 5a ed., Università Bocconi. Milano
Icastica 2015, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Arezzo.
2014 Start14, chiesa di San Matteo, Lucca.
2013 La seduzione del Monocromo, Museo Civicodei Bretti e degli Enotri, Cosenza.
Sospensioni, Biblioteca Mozzi Borgetti, Macerata
Andata e Ricordo - souvenire de voyage, Mart, Rovereto
Sculpture! Make You Dream, Art Center, Seoul
Barzagli-Corsini-Savini, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Firenze
Oltre il Giardino, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia
2012 La pittura esercizio o libertà?, Galleria Giacomo Guidi, Roma
Italian do it better, 50 St James’s Street, London
Let There Be Light, Gazelli Art House, London
Meriggio a Carignano, Villa al Console , Lucca
Muro di china, casa Menzio, Torino
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Pittura Concetto Materia, Galleria Giacomo Guidi, Roma
Malmaison, Corsoveneziaotto, Milano
PUBLIC PROJECTS
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INCIPIT VITA NOVA, Fortezza Nuova, Livorno
Parma #33, Torino
Codice rosso, Milano, Lucca
Uomini, Ospedale di Campostaggia, Poggibonsi (Siena)
Chi mi parla?, Cantagallo (Prato)
Le parole scaldano, Quarrata (Pistoia)
Alba, Peccioli (Pisa)
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I live and work in Civitanova Marche, Italy.
My artistic research is based on the idea of contamination:interactions, trespassings, fusions between images and wordsigns. Through all these means, I aim at creating new icons. Cautiously using the verbal painting’s idea. The meaning of my
work is this. Using words, colours, architectures, pictures, maps, I am trying, through contamination, to force the image to
become imagination. We have forms that are changing, they try to develop, they express a construction process. The verbal
element with its physical presence doesn’t exist anymore. Identification words change of nature, from being descriptive they
develop to some structure, finally turning to architecture . The subject of my work is the concept writing – antiwriting.
I would like my works to become places of contemplation and, at the same time, of reflexion and concentration. Taking
again possession of surfaces and establishing an analytical relationship with ancestral, alchemical or mysteriosophical signs,
I try develop a research that regains the Renaissance imagery in order to produce complex structures, aesthetical rebuses
where it is possible to retrace signs and drawings that, on the one hand, look for harmony and centrality, while, on the other
hand, require an essential irregularity and a necessary lateral development of the composition.
Solo Exhibitions
(2007/2015)
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2011
Havel havalim, PrometeoGallery by Ida Pisani, Milan,
Tempo Imperfetto, Water, curated by Antonello Tolve e Stefania Zuliani, Museo archeologico Salerno
Silence a Giorgio, curated by Manuela Valentini, mediterranea 16, Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona
Contaminazioni, curated by Ivano Quintavalle, Pinacoteca Palazzo Lazzarini, Morrovalle (Mc)
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
2015
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Maretti price, selected by Eugenio Viola, from 26 November to 30 Dicember, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales, La Havana, Cuba.
Artissima 2015, with Prometeogallery, Turin
Con i piedi fortemente poggiati sulle nuvole, a cura di Antonello TolveMuseo Michetti / Comune di Francavilla al Mare (PE)
“How to collect political art”, curated by Jota Castro, summa art fair, Madrid
Dipingere il presente, curated by Alessandro Demma and Fang Zhenning, Certosa di S. Giacomo Capri 06 septmber
The Flags, curated by Elena Forin e the rete art project, serra dei giardini, Venezia
OPEN MIA, curated byStefano Raimondi e Mauro Zanchi, Bergamo
Miart, Milano with Prometeogallery by Ida Pisani
Art Brussels, Prometeogallery by Ida Pisani
Artissima, Turin, PrometeoGallery by Ida Pisani
Crucis Splendor, Galleria Civica di Potenza
Miart, 2014, Milano
Le ragioni della pittura. Esiti e prospettive di un medium, curated by Laura Cherubini and Eugenio Viola, Palazzo de Sanctis, Castelbasso, Teramo, Italy
Errors Allowed, curated by Manuela Valentini at Mediterranea 16 Young Artists Biennial, Ancona, Italy
Miart, Prometeogallery by Ida Pisani
Bologna ArtFair, Prometeogallery by Ida Pisani
Palazzo Poggi, Arte fiera off, cureted by Manuela Valentini, Bologna
Fabbrica del Vapore from November 14th till December 14th
Disorder, curated by Cantieri D’arte, Milan
Artissima 19, Prometeogallery of Ida Pisani, Turin,
Premio Cairo, palazzo della Permanente, selected by Eugenio Viola, Milan
Disorder, curated by Marco Trulli at Worl Event Young Artist, Nottingham
2011 Premio Combat, Museo civico G. Fattori, ex granai di villa Mimbelli, Livorno,
Project for Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples
Palazzo della Cultura Taranto,
Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Open Space, Catanzaro,
Symbiosis, XV biennale de la mediterraèe, MACRO, Roma
Artissima 18, Prometeogallery by Ida Pisani, Torino
Symbiosis, XV biennale de la mediterraèe-Thessaloniki (Greece)
Nello stesso Luogo, nello stesso Tempo, curated by Marco Cecchetti, ex mercato delle erbe, Macerata,
Miart now, Prometeo Gallery by Ida Pisani, Milano
Racconti d’Italia, curated by Annarita Scivittaro, galleria pubblica Mirionima, Macerata,
Vienna art fair, Prometeo Gallery by Ida Pisani, Vienna,
Ma quale tra tutti i mondi è il più esclusivo? Curated by Antonello Tolve, Archivio dell’Architettura Contemporanea ex Museo del Falso, Salerno
Artday 2, curated by Franko b, terminal, Macerata
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I live and work in Berlin.
My research moves from the basis of the photographic technique, from the study of the physical and emotional traces left by
light. The image concretise by its flowing in time and becomes stratified in the memory of places, on the skin on things, in
short-lived events. What is not visible, has disappeared, is imagined or is about to happen is in this way engraved, turning
up as a ‘trace’ of a phenomenology of the invisible and underground world. The eye focuses on the fascination of the daily
reality and its quiet visibility.
Throughout these themes, my work develops in different languages, through photographic images, videos or site-specific
installations.
Solo Exhibitions
2014 Martina della Valle, Mois de la photo, Italian cultural Institute, Paris
2013 “Echoes” Martina della Valle + Sara Wallgreen, II II//I Hochstrasse45, Berlin
“Words Through Time, Time Through Words” MdV + Sabine Delafon, by Federica Tattoli, ARTOPIA Gallery, Milano
2012 ”SLENDER TIME 012” Galleria METRONOM Project Room, Modena
2011 “BLU, Berlin Episode” KUHN gallery Berlin D
“TIME DUST” curated by Marinella Paderni, METRONOM gallery, Modena
“BLU” ARTOPIA Gallery, Milan 03|009- ”MINERVA PROJECT” Artopia Gallery, area ex Minerva, MiArt, Milan
“Martina della Valle” ARTOPIA Gallery, Milan
“Impronte” curated by Silvio Wolf, ARTOPIA Gallery, Milan
2005 “Stanze” A+M bookstore, Milan
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
2015 Exploring Resilience: Peninsula at Mila Kunstgalerie, Berlin (D)
ARTISTS’ TALK Peninsula.land, Berlin (D)
CIRCULATION(s) Les projections, Centquatre, Paris
2014 Farnesina Porte Aperte: Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Rome
In Between: Gall. METRONOM, Modena (MO)
Dot.Land: Peninsula Association, A Space, Berlin (D)
Collezione Farnesina, Ministero degli Affari Esteri, Roma
Premio S.Croce: by Ilaria Mariotti, Villa Pacchiani, S.Croce sull’Arno (PI)
Still Frames: by Cake Away, Fond. Bevilacqua la Masa, (VE)
2013 AIR VIEW: AIR Onomichi Art Collection, Onomichi (JP)
DAB, Design for Artshop and Bookshop, MAXXI, Roma
Post Fata Resurgo: by Irene Biolchini and Martina Marolda, MIC, Faenza (RA)
The Food Project. The Shape of Taste: MART, Rovereto (TN)
2012 WUNDERcamera: Gall. METRONOM, Modena MadeInFilandia: residency program, Filandia, Pieve a Presciano (AR)
Abitanti/Abitati: by Stefano Coletto, Fond Bevilacqua La Masa, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Taibon Agordino (BL)
Premio Toscana: selected projects, EX3, Firenze
ITaliens’12: by Alessandra Pace and Marina Sorbello, Volkswagen Pavillon, Wolfsburg D
2011 Disappearence: curated by Angela Madesani, ART Verona, Verona
Memoria variabile: curated by Gigliola Foschi, Galleria Milano, Milan
Festival Circulations: curated by Laura Serani, Galerie Cotè Seine, Paris
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I live and work in Milan, Italy.
My research relates to the human body through its postures as well as from an anthropological and existential point of view.
I use a variety of visual languages ranging from painting to video installation, drawing and performance.
In my work the body, although aware of being a container, is often questioned as a content; it is precisely from this
relationship of continuous exchange of two status, different but essential for each other, that originates the form and the
space of my work, whatever visual language I chose to use.
I am interested in neuroscience and anthropology, and I have published the Manual of the human figure (2007). Ed. The
Ori, Italy as well as, together with Ludovica Lumer, C’è da Perderci la testa, Ed. Laterza, Italy.
Solo Exhibitions
(2009-2016)
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FRAGILE, with Summer Mei Ling Lee, curated by M. Pugliese, a collaboration between the Italian Cultural Institute and the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco
Estratto - Quo Vadis 2011/2016, curated by E. Del Prete, foyer of Si, Bologna
Manuale della figura umana. Secondo studio per l’allestimento di un impaginato with Fiorenza Menni, curated by Nosadella.due e Atelersi Bologna
La Quarta Vetrina, curated by F.Pasini, Libreria delle donne, Milan
L’arte in una stanza - Figure, curated by Antonello Negri, Fondazione Pasquinelli, Milano
A4 - 564, curated by Pietro Gaglianò, Santa Reparata International School of Art, Firenze
Senza titolo curated by Francesca Pasini - Fondazione Pier Luigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli
“E arrivarono...”, performance in collaboration with the women from Camogli Cariatidi, site-specific project Scalone Villa Croce - Museo di arte contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova
And they came...audio installation for ISHN International Society for the History of the Neurosciences 17th Annual Meeting 19 - 23 June, Fondazione G. Cini, Venezia
Cariatidi - wallpaper - Le Case d’Arte, Milan
Joint - Nosadella.due - Bologna
Troca - performance Nosadella.due, MAMbo, Gender Bender Festival - Bologna
Antologia delle posizioni - Nosadella.due, MAMbo - Bologna
AGENTE - AGISCE - AGITO - Primo Piano d’Artista - Museo del Novecento, Milan
Faccia a faccia Assab one, LAC contemporary art, Liceo Artistico Statale “Caravaggio”, Milan
Antologia delle posizioni Le Case d’Arte gallery, Milan
La prua Art for the world, Open Care, Milan
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
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2012 2011 PROPORTIO curated by Axel Vervoordt e Daniela Ferretti, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia
GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS curated by Rita Pinto, Vanity Project, New York
Madeinfinlandia curated by Luca Pancrazzi, Claudio Maccari, Elena El Asmar e Loris Cecchini
Pieve a Presciano (AR)
La mano - Come siamo diventati umani MUSE Museo della Scienza - Trento
4th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art curated by Adelina Von Furstenberg - Greece
Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea Mambo (Museo d’arte moderna) Bologna
Fuck tabù Camera 16 - Milano
10 artisti per 10 anni di Apice I fondi di archivio interpretati da artisti
Archivi della Parola dell’Immagine e della Comunicazione Editoriale - Università degli Studi of Milan
The Dorian Project by Ilan Cohen & Quamg Bao, SecondGuest/Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
Tecnica Mista curated by Marina Pugliese, Museo del Novecento Milano
MyAtelier, public art, Roma
Pittura europea dagli anni 80 ad oggi curated by F.Pasini and G. Verzotti, Palazzo Stelline, Milano
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I live and work in London, Uk.
In my work, I resort to a wide range of art expressions, including sculpture, video, drawing and installation. I am interested
in the inter-relation between human beings and nature.
I explore the means and criteria of people to face and adapt to the surrounding environment, emphasizing the romantic
aspect of this failing effort.
My work often proceeds through an experimental approach, using plans, architects’ sketches and codes and shaping them
into natural objects or superimposing them on the landscape.
Applying the rules and measurements of these plans, sketches and codes to a different end, such as a sculpture or a site
specific installation , implies a changing of scale and context, which eliminates their original practical utility and reveals
their poetical nature.
Recently I have started to question the privileged place that animals have and always had in human life as in art history,
trying to understand the relation of desire and empathy that leads men to possess and to observe animals.
Solo AND GROUP Exhibitions
2015 Feets, Don’t Fail Me Now, Débora Delmar Corp, Michela de Mattei, Tamara Henderson and Jeannine Han, Paul Housley, Birgit Jürgenssen, Paul Kindersley, Christodoulos Panayioto, Renee So. Belmacz , London
2014 Vogliatemi perdonare quel poco di disturbo che reco, Ex Elettrofonica, Roma
Incidents of phenomena, Spazio Cerere, Roma
Appartate, Michela de Mattei ! Aldo GrazzismArt Polo per l’arte contemporanea, Roma,
Landscape as a Social System, curated by Lucrezia Cippitelli, Michela De Mattei Margherita Moscardini L
eonid Tsvetkov, Art Brussel, 2014
Art is Real – Una collezione impermanente, temporary group show a cura di Silvia Litardi e Guendalina Salini (Roma)
Nuova Gestione – quartiere di CASAL BERTONE, Roma
IT. Spazi di percezione tra intangibile e tangibile – GNAM Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e contemporanea (Roma)
2013 Innesto #6, Riorientamento | Michela de Mattei – Sala Santa Rita, Roma, Mostra finalisti
TALENT PRIZE 2013 – spazio della Casa dell’Architettura, (Roma)
District 913 – MAAM, museo dell’altro e dell’altrove di metropoliz (Roma)
Facets of Time – John Cabot University, Roma, 2013 Festival della creatività – nuovo spazio
FACTORY, Roma, 2013 Manufatto in Situ 6 – workshop con Raqs Media Collective, Foligno,
2012 Secondo Piano 2011 – Open Studios, Ex Magazzini di Portonaccio, Roma
RESIDENCIES/GRANTS
2015 2013
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Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris October/December, Apulia
Land Art Festival Residency curated by I.Gianni, G. Prezioso, S.Verini, Special Prize Casa dell’Architettura, TALENT PRIZE 2013. Prize Festival della Creatività, spazio Factory, MACRO
TESTACCIO, Roma Manufatto in Situ 6, Workshop
Raqs Media Collective, Foligno
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I live and work in Venezia, Italy.
I have been pursuing a research attempting to highlight two elements which are - in my view - essential in life: communication networks which are needed for information transmission, and the suitable amount of time necessary to make this
transfer possible. In other words, I am trying to highlight the close links exhisting between the grids, structures and circuits
belonging to different worlds but also part of our everyday life. I am referring for instance to the complex structure of lymph
vessels in leaves, or subway maps, or the shape of a nerve cell: if looked at closely, these seemingly unrelated elements show
instead many analogies and much resonance. I take my subjects from the real world, starting from anthropological, botanic,
urban illustrations, but also from embroideries and wallpaper patterns belonging to everyday domestic life. All this process
hints at a metaphorical thinking on the way we live as parts of a whole which seems constantly repeating some laws of
fractal proliferation, thus providing the world with a sense of movement and fruitfulness. The working method is always the
same: piercing, cutting different materials (tissue, paper sheets, plant leaves, soaps, china, wall plaster) with sharp surgical
knives. I cut across these materials and the results are works that can be seen as sharing a common theme: the shapes that
nature takes in its process of expansion and organisation.
Solo Exhibitions
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La Quarta Vetrina, curated by Francesca Pasini, Libreria delle donne, Milano
VOLTA NY 2013
An invitational solo project fair for contemporary art, curated by Amanda Coulson, New York
I change but I cannot die, a cura di Francesca Pasini, Laura Bulian Gallery Milano
Dis-nascere, curated by Angela Vettese, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia
Duetart Gallery, Varese
Viafarini DOCVA, Milano, curated by Francesca Pasini
La Parete, Francesco Girondini Arte Contemporanea, Verona, curated by Chiara Bertola
Il tempo è come il luogo, Alberto Peola Arte Contemporanea, Torino, curated by Chiara Bertola
Some island, Project rooms, ARCOmadrid International Contemporary Art Fair, Madrid, curated by Octavio Zaya
Studio Barbieri Arte Contemporanea, Venezia curated by Chiara Bertola
Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova curated by Sabrina Zannier
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
2016 Pelle, curated by Fondaco Fondation, avenue Generalde Gaulle 45, Brussels
21st Century Design after Design, curated by Silvana Annicchiarico, Triennale Design Miìuseum, Milano
Arte Fiera 40. I grandi maestri dell’arte italiana, curated by Giorgio Verzotti and Claudio Spadoni, MAMbo Museum, Bologna
2015 Elective Affinities, curated by Victor Misiano, National Center for Contemporary art (NCCA) Moscow, Russia
LandScapes, curated by Guido Curto, Villa Giulia, Verbania Pallanza
Verbovisioni, curated by Riccardo caldura, Magazzini del Sale, Accademia di Belle arti Venezia
Geografie, curated by Beppe Finessi, Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milano
INNatural, curated by Alessio De Girolamo, filanda di Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo
2014 MADE IN FILANDIA 2014, filanda di Pieve a Presciano (Ar)
2013 48° edizione del Premio Suzzara. LA TERRA SI MUOVE CON IL SENSO, curated by E.Modena, M. Scotti, P. Boccaletti, Galleria del Premio Suzzara, Mantova
AUTORITRATTI. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, curated by Francesca Pasini, Museo MAMbo, Bologna
2012 Intermezzo 18: Penzo+Fiore / Rebecca Agnes / Elisabtta Di Maggio, curated by Barabara Fragogna, Emerson
Gallery Berlin, Berlino
2011 Edge Park - Un percorso fra arte, architettura e ambiente, curated by Riccardo Caldura, Parco del Contemporaneo, Forte Marghera, Venezia
Officina Italia 2. Nuova Creatività Italiana, curated by Renato Barilli, Sala del Baraccano, Bologna, ALT Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo
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I live and work between Siena (Italy) and Brussels (Belgium).
My work aims at creating a condition of contextuality, a “perpetual present” in which the relationship between life and
death is simplified in the act of living. My exploration originates from a simple concept: the impermanence of all things, to
which I oppose a personal form of resistance, in a shaky equilibrium between opposites.
In this condition of continuous transformation, attention to or care for the present (where individual and collective memory
meet, along with future prospects and common occurrences and everyday gestures) is a way to come to an awareness.
My intervention slots in this real-yet-illusory temporal separation, into the shift between the present-continuous interior
time of consciousness and the exterior time of biological life, which is bound to pass. The experience of life is a continuous
alternation between these temporal states, with death representing both end and continuity, not only through memory,
which is unique in its subjective manifestation, but as universal participation in the perpetual mutation of life form. Action
as a form of presence in the world and memory as a condition of existence come together in the uniqueness of experience,
which thus becomes the universal experience of the self. The process of the work is a journey discovered in the making, but
is supported by strongly-rooted theoretical and spiritual convictions. The performance aspect emerging from my actions is
thus not so important as a public representation, but constitutes the active and “formal” rendering of a piece at the moment
of its realisation.
2016
Upcoming_Caveau, Siena (Italy)
La Pelle (Skin), Officina, Brussels (Belgium) curated by Fondaco and Officna
Caduta libera, Galleria Passaggi, Pisa (Italy) curated by Pietro Gaglianò
Grand Hotel, Temple Gallery, Roma (Italy).
2015 White Album, Zentrum/Surplace, Varese (Italy)
Dans le dèsordre du payasage, solo show, Morelli Contemporary, Brussels (Belgium) curated by Raffaele Gavarro La Camera delle Meraviglie, Casa Masaccio Contemporary Art, San Giovanni Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy curated by Pietro Gaglianò
Distances, a project between Prato (Italy) and Paris (France), Lato/Interno 8, Prato (Italy)
Distances, Gallerie Cetraro-Escougnou, Paris (France) curated by Matteo Innocenti, Valeria Cetraro e Edouard Escougnou
Grand Hotel, Riot Studio, Palazzo Marigliano, Napoli (Italy), SMS Santa Maria della Scala Museum Center, Siena (Italy), Festival Studi#1, Milano (Italy) curated by Elena El Asmar, Serena Fineschi, Luca Pancrazzi, Marco An-
drea Magni
Meno, Mdt, Prato (Italy) curated by Martino Margheri.
2014 Stato di Grazia, solo show, Siena (Italy), old town, curated by Antonello Tolve and Brick Center for Research and Contemporary Culture
8+1, Lato/BBS, Prato (Italy) curated by Matteo Innocenti - Fortepiano, solo show, Galleria FuoriCampo, Brussels (Belgium) curated by Esther Biancotti and Jacopo Figura
Artiste Domiciliè, residence program, Brussels (Belgium) curated by Galleria FuoriCampo.
2013 Run#2 – Spazio per artisti di passaggio, residence program, Lerici (La Spezia, Italy)
Un luogo aperto, Museum of modern and contemporary art “Raffaele de Grada”, San Gimignano (Siena, Italy) curated by Carolina Taddei
The Wall (archives) – beyond the railway, a project by Pietro Gaglianò, B.go Loreto/SP (Italy), CRAC Center for Research and Contemporary Art, Cremona (Italy), Sponge contemporary art, Pergola (PU, Italy), ASSAB ONE, Milano (Italy)
RSVP arte contemporanea in spazi privati, Piccolomini’s home, Siena (Italy) curated by Pietro Gaglianò e RSVP
Il primo giorno di sole, solo show, Galleria FuoriCampo, Siena curated by Pietro Gaglianò
Sic, public project, site specific work for Siena, canditate city for European Capital of Culture, 2019 Siena.
2012 Made in Filandia 2012, residence program, Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo (Italy).
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I live and work between The Netherlands and Belgium.
My approach is based on human communication and form. Whether evoked visually through videoproduction, images,
performances (The second conversation, The third conversation, 2008), or a voice over commentary (such as in the videos
194.9 MHz and Gordon - 2007), the issue is rather evident.
Dipped in an emotional light and in a controlled and rigorous time articulation, I believe my works ooze autobiographical
moods and tension immersed in a suspended and enigmatic atmosphere which slides towards the public in a sensual, and
virtually, decadent fashion. These two aspects are not in contrast, nor does one prevail on the other. They simply exist and
reverberate one into the other. In my research two potentially spinal aspects vibrate: the treatment of sound in all its forms
and registers, and the viewer’s space of action. The former is a linguistic element with indefinite possibilities of expressive
modulation and the latter is an immense territory. In the videos the attention is placed on the complexity of the innermost
story and on the multi-level temporal conjugation, whilst in the performance I search for the intensity of the action. I enjoy
showing the countless, yet, mostly invisible perceptual crevices which can either welcome or reject once and for all the viewer, in that ever unhinging territory, because ever so personal, which is my work.
Solo Exhibitions
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Open Studio, American Academy in Rome, IT
Anger, Umberto Di Marino Gallery, IT
Faster Than Light, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna, IT
Wormhole, VZL Contemporary art, Amsterdam, NL
Variazioni per voce, Macro Museum, Rome, IT
Contemporary Locus 3, Bergamo, IT
Golden age, SYB residency, Beesterzwaag, NL
Oro, Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, IT
“The conversation”, Nuove Arti Award, Mambo Museum, Bologna, IT
Francesca Grilli Video-screening, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, DE
194.9 Mhz, A+M Gallery, curated by Amedeo Martegani, Milano, IT
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2015)
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Plumbing | Sequences VII, Reykjavík, Iceland
La scrittura degli echi, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome , IT
Milk Revolution, American Academy in Rome, Rome, IT
Conversation Piece, Part 1, Fondazione Memmo, Rome, IT
Tramandate Trame, Fondazione del Monte, Bologna, IT
Italy in SongEun : We Have Never Been Modern, Song Eun ArtSpace, Seoul, KR
Un Rumore Bianco. Frequenze e Visioni dalla Penisola, Assab One, Milano, IT
Percorsi nel contemporaneo, Macro, Roma, IT
Carte blanche à la Rijksakademie, Cinéma 2 – Centre Ponpidou, Paris, FR
Vice versa. Padiglione Italia. 55. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, IT
Corpus, Madre, Napoli, IT
Premio Moroso, GC.AC – Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone, IT
I just want to be loved, Maga, Gallarate, IT
Mandragora, Museo internazionale della ceramica, Faenza, IT
Io non ho mani che mi accarezzano il volto, Ancona, Mole Vanvitelliana, IT
Fold, Elgiz Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul, TR
Posso errare, ma non di core, GC.AC – Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone, IT
The need for new strategies, Expodium, Utrecht, NL Matter of action, O’ Artoteca, Milan, IT
AWARDS
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Nettuno d’oro, Lions Club Bologna, IT
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Moroso Prize, final selection, IT
Terna Prize, Rome, IT
Fritschly prize, Het Domein Museum, final selection, NL
Nuove Arti award, Mambo Museum, Bologna, IT
Palazzo Strozzi, “Emerging talents”, final selection, Firenze, IT
Artissima, “Italian wave”, Torino, IT
ICEBERG Arti Visive / Visual Arts, Bologna, IT
International Prize of Performance , Centrale di Fies, Tn, IT
Fellowships, stipends
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FONDS BKVB, Basis Stipend, Amsterdam, NL
AFK, Spreekhuur, Amsterdam, NL
FONDS BKVB, work budget, Amsterdam, NL
CENTRALE DI FIES/ FF1
GAI – Association for the Young Italian Artists Circuit – MOVIN’UP
Fellowships, stipends
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2012
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Affiliated Fellow, American Academy in Rome
Macro Museum, Residency program, Rome, IT
SYB, NL
Centrale di Fies, Trento, IT
M4gastatelier, Amsterdam, NL
Red A.i.R., Residency of SMBA in collaboration with City of Amsterdam, NL
Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten / Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science
Selected Performing Arts Festivals
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See you next time, BUDA, Kortrijk, BE
Drodesera , Centrale Fies, Trento, IT
Capital A, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, NL
Viva Festival, Museo Maxxi per Cosenza, IT
Mantica, Teatro Comandini, Cesena, IT DNA, Romaeuropa Festival, Roma, IT
Impulstanz Festival, Vienna, AU Drodesera , Centrale Fies, Trento, IT
Tupp Festival, Uppsala, SW
Rencontres Choregraphiques , Paris, FR Drodesera , Centrale Fies, Trento, IT
Tanzfabriek, Berlin, DE
MIP2, Manifestação Internacional de Performance, Belo Horizonte, BR
Drodesera Festival, Trento, IT
Cango – Oltrarno festival, Firenze, IT UOVO Performing Arts Festival, Milano, IT
Club to Club, International Festival of Electronic music and Arts, Turin\Rotterdam, IT \ NL
Vie Scena Contemporanea, Modena, IT
Drodesera Festival, Trento, IT Santarcangelo Festival, Rimini, IT
Contemporanea, Pecci Museum, Prato, IT Festival Oltrarno, Cango, Firenze, IT
Drodesera FIES, Centrale di Fies, Dro (TN), IT UOVO Performing Arts Festival, Milano, IT
International Prize of Performance, Centrale di Fies, Dro (TN), IT
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I have produced what has been defined as an enigmatic and compelling body of work based on the analogy and interpretation of organic and architectural forms.
In my recent research I have focused on the garden, which combines nature with an intellectualapproach. Using different
media and materials, I produce works which reveal the relationship between architecture, history and images of nature.
From the study of the geometric structure of flowers and plants drawings are born which relate to the process of creation of
cathedrals, mausoleums, often taken from ancient maps. An important element in my research is the use of numbers in the
geometric design, which refers to the planetary system in which are inscribed both the garden (where the vegetal element
grows) and the architectural plan.
The garden, in fact, constitutes a central tropus in my formal universe, which presupposes two related, yet not entirely comparable artistic operations: selection and montage.
Solo Exhibitions
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Il tesoro di atreo garden project (two person show with H. Nagasawa) text by L. Cherubini, Z2O Gallery | Sara Zanin _Rome
Operadelocalizzata ga rden project _curated by Ne ro/Alessand ro Neretti, C. Zauli, M.I.C. Museum_Faenza
02.02.13 garden project, Z2O Gallery | Sara Zanin _Rome
z2o garden project _text by M. G. Mancini, PlArt Museum_Naples
Botanica (two person show with Formafantasma) _curated by Lia Rumma, Z2O Gallery | Sara Zanin _Rome
Marseille garden project _text by Francesca Boenzi, Galerie du Tableau _Marseille
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2015)
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Imago Mundi _curated by L. Beatrice, Fomdfazione Clini, Venice
Simbolismo Costruttivo _curated by F. Fontana e Dimora Artica, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan
It’s all about Paper, A100 Gallery, May 2nd – September 30th 2015, curated by Lorenzo Madaro, Piazza Alighieri 100, Galatina (Lecce)
Praestigium Contemporary Artists from Italy,curated by Luca Beatrice, Imago Mundi/Luciano Benetton, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
La camera delle meraviglie _curated P. Gaglianò, S. Giovanni Valdarno
Festival studi #01, various venues, Milan
Biennale Disegno Rimini. Krobylos, un groviglio di segni – da Parmigianino a Kentridge; curated by Alessandra Bigi Iotti, Marinella Paderni, Massimo Pulini, Giulio Zavatta, Museo della Città, Rimini
Drawing Review (Room1) , Kunstverein Neukölln, Berlin
Lavori in corso. Corpo 2///, curated by Toti Carpentieri, Museo MUST, Lecce (IT)
Senza Titolo, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
Storie Italiane, curated by Laura Cherubini e Lea Mattarella, ArteFiera, Bologna (IT)
Muro di China, Eva Menzio, Turin
12th Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan
Km/0. Segni d’arte a Sud, curated by Anna Cirignola, Laboratorio di arte e architettura, Lecce (IT)
Botanica, curated by Lia Rumma, Fondazione PlArt, Naples
Made in Filandia 2011, Loc. Flianda, Pergine Valdarno (IT)
L’arte non è cosa nostra: Le Accademie, curated by V. Sgarbi, Tese di San Cristoforo, Venice
Pure Water Vision, curated by Laura Cherubini, Eugenio Viola and Alfredo Cramerotti, Auditorium Conciliazione, Rome
AWARDS
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2010
Finalist of Acea Eco Art Prize: Pure Water Vision, curated by Laura Cherubini, Eugenio Viola and Alfredo Cramerotti
1st Rotary Club Milano Brera Prize for Contemporary Art and the young artists
2009
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2nd Fondazione A. Pomodoro Award for young sculptors
Menotrenta Prize and acquisition for Museo Civico and Gipsoteca, Savigliano (IT)
Winner of Think finance: l’arte di una Brain Company, acquisition of work for Gruppo Finanz. Eptaconsors, Milan
Salon 1st Prize, Museo della Permanente, Milan
LECTURES
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Il concetto di giardino in H. Nagasawa, relat. H. Nagasawa and J. de Sanna, Arte Fiera, Bologna (IT)
Il concetto di MA in Hidetoshi Nagasawa, curated by J. de Sanna, Casa degli Artisti, Milan
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I live and work in Piacenza, Italy.
I look to nature and science likes sources of inspiration as well as to the historical and anthropological aspect of the environment. Working in a variety of media, from site-specific installations, sculpture and video to works on textile and paper,
I also explore the concept of story-telling through art and writing, often using projects to link and create new communities
of human interaction.
My artistic quest is dedicated to the relationship between the human being and nature and travelling and exploration as
experiences of knowledge.
Walking and experiencing and in-depth knowledge of sites are focal aspects of my research. My interests encompass different disciplines, from natural science, such as ethnology and geology, to geography, cartography, literature, poetry.
Hence my work softly blends ecological concerns and social considerations. Nature, the source and food of thoughts, becomes a boost to raise our awareness with respect to our relationship with natural and social environment and with the rules
underlying them.
I have carried out a number of projects based on participation and relationship: projects, centred around objects acting as
catalysts of energies, experiences, memories, that have turned into collective operations.
2015 Concha de Amor, performance, in occasion of Livorno Arte Contemporanea, Livorno;
I can reach you (from one to many): Bianco-Valente, Claudia Losi e Valerio Rocco Orlando, at Associazione Cul
turale dello Scompiglio, Lucca
Fashion as social Energy, at Palazzo Morando, MilanMenagerie, or Artwork Not About Love, Elaine L. Jacob Gal
lery, at Wayne State University, Detroit, USA;
2014 The Milky Way, for Pianoterra onlus, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples; èdra, Connecting Landscapes, Reale Istituto Neerlandese, Rome; (2014).
2013 Women for Life, together with Regina José Galindo, at La Maréchalérie, centre d’art contemporain-ENSA-V, Ver
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Autoritratti. Iscrizioni del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, MAMbo, Bologna
Biology of Proximity, Galleria Monica de Cardenas Gallery, Zuoz, Swiss
2012 The special project Altro da cose, Musei Civici, Modena
Corps Exquis, Claudia Losi _Antonio Marras, Palazzo Nicolosio Lomellino, Genova
2011 Les Funérailles de la Baleine, video show, Cinema Massimo, Turin
Les Funérailles de la Baleine, performance with Vinicio Capossela and installation, Via Farini-DOCVA, Milan
2010 Solo show at Monica De Cardenas, Milan
Les Funérailles de la Baleine, performance, Biella
Aware: Art Fashion Identity, Gsk Contemporary 2010, Royal Accademy of Arts, London
SI Sindrome Italiana, MAGASIN, Grenoble
2009 Qui e non altrove. Qui. a local communities project, ArtePOLLINO, Basilicataì
2008 Solo shows at the Marino Marini Museum in Florence, Stenersen Museum of Oslo and Ikon Gallery in Birmingham
Group show at MAMBo Museum in Bologna, at MAXXI in Rome (some of her works are in its permanent collection)
In 2008, together with Hamish Fulton, she showed work at La Marrana Arte Ambientale in Monte Marcello-La Spezia;
Transatlantic Flowerbed, project for the program of art for public spaces Nuovi Committenti, promoted by Fondation de
France and Urban2, Mirafiori Nord, Turin.
2007
Sharjah Biennial 8, United Arab Emirates
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I live and work in Siena, Italy.
My work has always being developing in a precarious balance in the permanent confrontation between figurative and abstract art. In an attempt to cross this border, I try to trespass the pictorial substance ,continuously seeking a gesture, a creative act which could lead me beyond painting. My research imposes an organised chaos between the different forms of art,
between the various languages that I use in my art works. This dimension of entropy and control enveils a hidden territory
where painting emerges without painting and is accomplished naturally, without resorting to its traditional means . The
enamel, present in almost all my paintings, seems to assert a desire of immobility, whilst it is on the contrary the element
generating the formal dynamism, the perpetual movement present in my works.
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2008 2009 2010 2012 2013 2014 Verderosa, a cura di Maurizio Bortolotti, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Siena
Quaranta x quaranta, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano
Ritratto Autoritratto, Trevi Flash Art Museum Trevi
Nuova scena a cura di Cristiana Perrella e Luca Beatrice.
Artefiera Bologna, Galleria Graziano Vigato, Alessandria
Finestre italiane, ex Convento di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta
Il fantastico nella giovane arte italiana, a cura di Ginevra Paparoni, Accademia delle Arti Visive, Siracusa
La Fornace dell’arte, a cura di Marisa Vescovo, Fornace Bolloli, Alessandria
6 personali, a cura di Plinio De Martiis, La Tartaruga, Castelluccio di Pienza, Siena
Escatologica, a cura di Mauro Civai, Magazzini del Sale, Siena
Di cotto e di crudo, a cura di Omar Calabrese, Palazzo Chigi, San Quirico d’Orcia, Siena
Realizza il drappellone del Palio di agosto a Siena.
Del porcello e delle sue delizie, Studio d’arte La Subbia, Pietrasanta
Artisti carissimi, a cura di Adolfo Natalini, Galleria Pananti, Firenze
Sumptuous, a cura di Lorenzo Fusi e Lucia Minunno, Officina giovani, ex Macelli, Prato
Reperti umani, a cura di Omar Calabrese, Museo archeologico, Frascati
Flesh for Fantasy, a cura di Lorenzo Fusi e Marco Pierini, Officina giovani,
ex Macelli, Prato
Ipermercati dell’Arte, a cura di Omar Calabrese, Palazzo Squarcialupi, Santa Maria della Scala, Siena
Voi non siete qui, a cura di Omar Calabrese and Maurizio Bettini, Acciaierie Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo
Fashion Room, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai Firenze
Nowheremen, a cura di Omar Calabrese and Maurizio Bettini, Acciaierie Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo
Cinqueborse, Showroom Secondome Roma
Three, a cura di Delay McKay Artsee Eyewear, New York
Outsider Project, Galleria Alessandro Bagnai a cura di Antonella Villanova Firenze
Le plaisir de peintre, Zone showroom Montespertoli Firenze
Edra + Claudio Maccari, BienVivre Siena
MadeinFilandia Pieve a Presciano Arezzo
Muro di china, Madeinfilandia Eva Menzio Torino
Acqua, a cura di Carles Marco, Montevarchi, Vivai Cioncolini
Tutti a raccolta, allestimento per la Coop di S.Gimignano a cura di Culture attive.
Paesaggio, Montevarchi a cura di Carles Marco e Paola Lucrezia Cioncolini.
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My work is connected to the memory of the body, in which the surface becomes the place of conflict and pleasure, the filter
where the marks of consequences of our relationship with the world get tangled up. The emergence of depth, coming to
the surface, like an interior that is brought out and turned into a sculpture, is a conceptual exercise, but at the same time a
carnal exercise.
I always saw sculpture as an extension of the senses, a form of sentimental education through which one comes to know the
self and the other. For me, sculpture, is a continuous questioning of the imperfections of our existence, and of the enthusiasm
produced when, from those imperfections, a new harmony is reached. The history of sculpture coincides with the history of
the skin. It is a history of many paradoxes, as the skin is a system to protect our individuality and at the same time a place of
exchange with others. Skin preserves our inside from external forces, yet it bears the marks of these impacts and exchanges.
Sculpture, likewise, deals with the differences and exchanges between us: a constellation of habits, impulses, dispositions
and behavioral traits become form. The structure of a sculpture becomes a sort of cognitive structure open to affective experience within a shared, vulnerable space.
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“Families of Objects”, Abrons Arts Center, N.Y, a cura di Marco Antonini.
“White Album”, Surplace/Zentrum, Varese, a cura di Luca Scarabelli.
“Materia Sonica”,AplusB Contemporary Art, Brescia, a cura di Rossella Moratto, Dario Bonetta e Fabio Volpi.
“Luce 01”, Palazzo Mongiò dell’Elefante della Torre, Galatina (LE), a cura di Antonella Marino.
“Families of Objects”, Réunion, Zurigo, a cura di Marco Antonini.
“Distances”, Galerie See Studio, Parigi, a cura di Valeria Cetraro,Edouard EscougnouMe Matteo Innocenti.
“Sur Face”, Miart, Milano, a cura della Galleria FuoriCampo.
“Grand Hotel”, Complesso Museale - SMS Santa Maria della Scala, Siena.
“Distances”, Lato, Prato, a cura di Matteo Innocenti e Deriva.
“Made in filandia 2014”, Filanda di Pieve a Presciano, Arezzo.
“Extradelicato 2”, via privata Pantelleria 5, Milano.
“ ” doppia personale con Giovanni Kronenberg, Galleria FuoriCampo, Bruxelles.
“The Art of Living”, Triennale (Palazzo dell’Arte), Milano, a cura di Francesca Taroni, Ico Migliore, Filippo Romeo.
“8+1” Lato e BBS, Prato, a cura di Matteo Innocenti.
“RUN/Spazio per artisti di passaggio” #2 Lerici.
“Un luogo aperto” Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Raffaele De Grada, San Gimignano, a cura dell’As
sociazione Culture Attive.
“So/stare”, MAC - Museo Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, a cura di Alberto Zanchetta e Remo Salvadori.
“Poppositions” mostra personale, Bruxelles. Fondazione Dynamo
Art Factory invitato da Diva Moriani come visiting artist, Pistoia.
“Più giovani di così non si poteva” mostra personale, Galleria Fuori Campo, Siena.
“Extradelicato”, via privata Pantelleria 5, Milano.
“Cantiere”, Assab One, Milano, a cura di Remo Salvadori
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I live and work in Rome, Italy.
I have been working for a long time on the skin of the city, by using sheets of sand paper to pick up the colour and anything
else from the wall surfaces which could restore a sign, a trace, an urban colour back. I have also made paintings by
substraction, always using sandpaper, uncovering in this case thin layers of different and overlapping colours and hues, the
last covering the previous one and so on, to come to a final image bringing to light all the previously veiled layering. With
the passing of time the aggressive action of sandpapering has slowly shifted into the opposite: a great attention paid to the
surface of sandpaper through very liquid sheer colour glazing, mostly royal blue. The relation being established between the
two surfaces is very meaningful to me. I have often titled these works “Corpo” - Body – where body refers to the most visible
and external part of the body, the skin. In my work there is a transcendent veil being placed at the same time between the
inside and the outside, the infinitely big and the infinitely small. More recently I have made wax sculptures melting slowly.
The figures covered by a shiny veil of white wax also hide some layers of colour inside. At the end of the melting process
everything is brought to light, in such a way that the skin of the work is made of what was before its inner body.
On the idea of translucency and surface I can say that
- All art is just a veil, in some cases a metaphorical one, in other (as in my case) a tangible one.
- In the mystery of this veil, the role of translucency consists in reconciling the visible with the invisible, without the former
prevailing over the latter and vice versa, so constantly relaunching the possibility of the gaze.
Solo Exhibitions
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Once upon a time life, again, Dorothea Elkon Gallery, New York
Things Behind, presentazione di E.Viola, Luca Tommasi Arte Contemporanea (Catalogo)
ANDARSENE, MUSEO H.C.ANDERSEN, ROMA, a cura di G.Simongini
MATTEO MONTANI ( con Peter Flaccus ), OTTO Gallery, Bologna, IT
Bendini - Montani: Così vicini così lontani, a cura di G.Simongini, Museo Carichieti, Chieti, IT
I luoghi dell’immagine ( con Marco Grimaldi ), Nuova Galleria Morone, Milano, IT
Seelenlandschaft, a cura di D.Sarchioni, Musum Am Dom, Würzburg, DE
Ausstellung, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Colonia, DE
Ausstellung, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Wolfsburg, DE
Il Guardiano della soglia, Kalfayan Galleries, Atene, GR
Matteo Montani, a cura di I.Del Frate, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York, USA (Catalogo)
A cielo aperto, OTTO Gallery, Bologna, IT
Parole sulla montagna, Studio Visconti, Milano, IT
Naturaldurante, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, IT (Catalogo)
Abbassare il cielo agli occhi, a cura di M.Cavallarin, Paci Contemporary, Brescia IT, (Catalogo)
Discorso, a cura di C.D’Orazio, Reti, Palazzo Grazioli, Roma, IT
Il bacio ed altre strade per le stelle, Galleria Valentina Bonomo, Roma, IT (Catalogo)
Matteo Montani, a cura di M.Tonelli, Museo d’Arte, Ravenna, IT (Catalogo)
Fostèr, Galleria L’Attico - Fabio Sargentini, Rome, IT (Catalogo)
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
2016
2015
2014
2013
La Pelle, Officina, curated by Fondaco and Officina, Brussels
IMAGO MUNDI, a cura di L.Beatrice, Fondazione Cini, Venezia
C’è chi dipinge…, Galleria L’Attico, Roma
In Abstracto, a cura di M.Rossi, Galleria Alessandro Casciaro, Bolzano
Biennale Cina - Italia, a cura di Mian Bu, 798 Art District, Beijing, China
Premio Vasto, a cura di G.Simongini, Vasto (CH), IT
Biennale d’ Arte , a cura di G. De Feo and L. Lucibello, Palazzo dei Papi, Viterbo, IT
Non solo fotografia, Paci Contemporary, Brescia, IT
Blue, Kalfayan Galleries, Atene, GR
2012
2011
Premio Michetti 64ma edizione, Francavilla al Mare (CH), IT. Vincitore del Premio Speciale della Giuria
Al principio del vedere, a cura di M.Galbiati, Castel Arquato (PC), IT
Quaterna, Galleria L’Attico Fabio Sargentini, Roma, IT
Neue Sammlung, Mittelberg, Burg Museum, DE (Catalogo)
Il Santo Momento, a cura di D.Sarchioni, Museum Am Dom, Würzburg, DE (Catalogo)
Liquid Flags, a cura di G.Simongini, Sassoferrato (AN), IT (Catalogo)
Scritture, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, IT
Nuova creatività italiana, Officina Italia2, a cura di R.Barilli, Bologna/Milano (Catalogo)
VIDEO DOCUMENTARY
Matteo Montani: Durata min: 15,35
prodotto da LeonardoTV ( Sky Arte ), 2007
The Making of: Matteo Montani, Durata min: 3,05
prodotto da Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, 2010
Matteo Montani: Sotto la superficie, Regia di Christina Clausen
Durata min: 9,55
Prodotto da Rai Radiotelevisione italiana, 2015
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The experience of colour is at the centre of my work : colour as substance, as a trace of existence. The pictorial procedure
that takes place with precise regularity inside my space is often placed in close relation with other realities.
At the centre of my research are themes such as time, the diary, sedimentation, the persistence of the pictorial gesture, and
painting in relation to space. The existential experience, time again, leaves a trace of its passing through the substance-colour. The form is the result of following my method, the process is more important than the form.
My paintings are the consequence of the sedimentation of layers of colour that I paint on the canvases every day. Visually,
they almost look like monochrome paintings with just a small multi-layered strip at the top, which bears witness to the various passages. The continuity of painting is how I deal with my gesture: spreading substance on a surface, its sedimentation,
nothing more than adding an action to other actions that were already completed or are in the process of being completed.
Solo Exhibitions
(2005-2015)
2015
2014
2013
2012
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
Pronuncia i tuoi colori, Otto Zoo, Milano, Curated by F.Pasini
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Caterina Tognon
Maria Morganti and Massimo Kaufmann at Casa Testori (Fondazione Giovanni Testori), Novate Milanese, Milan (I)
OTTO ZOO, Milan (I), November/December
From one day to the other (with Lucas D’Hermitte), Galerie Ivana De Gavardie, Paris (F)
Procedere trasformandosi rimanendo, Caterina Tognon, Venice (I)
Un diario tira l’altro, OTTO ZOO, Milan (I), curated by M. Tagliafierro
L’unità di misura è il colore, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona (I), curated by C. Bertola
Indugi, con Bruna Esposito, Galleria Caterina Tognon, Venice (I), curated by C. Bertola
Diari Cromatici, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice (I), curated by C. Bertola
La Forma confligge col Tempo, with C. Guaita, Galleria M.G. Del Prete, Rome (I), curated by M. Panzera
Diaries, Florence Lynch Gallery, New York (USA)
Flux, Liege (B)
Leporelli, White Screen, Viafarini, Milan (I), curated by M. Farronato
Galleria Plurima, Udine (I)
Studio G7, Bologna (I)
History of a Painting, Barbara Behan Gallery, London (UK)
Galerie Arte Giani, Frankfurt (D)
Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Palazzetto Tito, Venice (I), curated by A. Vettese
Galleria Rubin, Milan (I), curated by G. Scardi
Galleria Michela Rizzo, Venice (I), curated by C. Bertola
With G. Negri, Galleria Plurima, Udine (I)
Neue Bilder, Galerie S65, Koeln (D)
Group Exhibitions
(2010-2016)
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
Pronuncia i tuoi colori, Otto Zoo, Milano, Curated by F.Pasini
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Caterina Tognon
Maria Morganti and Massimo Kaufmann at Casa Testori (Fondazione Giovanni Testori), Novate Milanese, Milan (I)
OTTO ZOO, Milan (I), November/December
Autoritratti. Iscrizione del femminile nell’arte italiana contemporanea, MAMbo, Bologna (I)
Fig.1: Paesaggio, Uscita Pistoia / SpazioA / NextSpazioA / Mac,n, Pistoia (I), curated by C. Canziani and I. Gianni
VISIONI - La fortezza plurale dell’arte, Civitella del Tronto (I), curated by G. Di Pietrantonio and U. Palestini
Ventotto, group show, OTTO ZOO, Milan (I)
Per te solo il cuore dimentica ogni suo affanno, GAMUD, Udine (I), curated by A. Bruciati and E. Comuzzi
Arte Fiera 2012, OTTO ZOO, Bologna (I)
2011 Senza di te, che sarei mai io?, Guado dell’Arciduca, Nogaredo al Torre, Udine (I), curated by A. Bruciati
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre 1990-2011, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (F)
Yet another example of the porousness of certain borders, Galleria Alessandro De March, Milan (I), curated by D. Ferri
Turtle Salon, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris (I), curated by Michael H. Samberg
2010 BYTS - Bosch Young Talent Show, AKV | St. Joost (Avans Hogenschool), s-Hertogenbosch (NL)
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
2011
2010
2007
2006
2005
2004
1997
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Sentimento Nuevo, workshop on the Art criticism in Italy, MAMbo, Bologna (I), curated by D. Ferri and A. Grulli
Un diario tira l’altro at the Venice Biennial, Soundings: Artworks, Venice Agendas, Readings, curated by Clare Fitzpatrick and Terry Smith, Saint George’s Anglican Church, Venice (I)
La pittura è oro, DOCVA, Milan (I), curated by L. Bertolo, D. Ferri, A. Grulli, M. Morganti
Che cos’è la Pittura?, Viafarini, Milan (I)
Laboratorio di Palazzo Bonaguro, Bassano del Grappa (I), curated by C. Bertola and H. Meyric Huges
Workshop Città dell’Arte, c/o VIU, San Servolo, Venice (I)
Casinò di Velden (A)
Art/Omi, Ghent, New York (USA)
Le Gènie de la Bastille, Paris (F)
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My work is charged with mystery and amazement. The gesture I perform generates a process while remaining capable of
capturing and accepting the unexpected: advance and retreat, action and perception.
My work bears witness to the possibility of another form of painting: painting that “mutates” not on the canvas, but in
water, and with results that the artist can only partially control. From the cycle texts written in ink (2006), to the blue series
(2009) in which I made use of plaster and powders, to the Red works ( 2011), where I carried out experiments with various
organic materials, and then to environment: a new space that becomes a vessel which the visitor is invited to enter (2013),
my encounter with the element of water has continued to develop and grow ever more fertile.
Recently a new start with large format polaroids (20x25 cm) in black and white. My work strives for coupling the scientific
observation of the behavior of materials and the capacity to reproduce it with a state of creative freedom in which the image
is shifted onto levels of perception quite different from those to which traditional painting has accustomed us. My praxis
finds its basis in the fragility of vision and its transformation.
Solo Exhibitions
2014
Ephemeral Pigments, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY, US
2013–2014
9’/unlimited, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2012
Red curated by Marco Tonelli, Galleria Z2O Sara Zanin in collaboration with Valentina Bonomo gallery, Rome, Italy
2011
Untitled, Italian Academy, Columbia University, New York, NY, US
No Trace, Italian Institute of Culture, Paris, France
No Trace, Macro Museum, Rome, Italy
2009
Untitled, Valentina Bonomo gallery, Rome, Italy
2008
Untitled, Photo & Contemporary gallery, Turin, Italy
2007
Corpi Sottili, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy
Corpi Sottili, Photo & Contemporary gallery, Turin, Italy
2006
Oltre curated by Marilena Bonomo, Castello Svevo, Bari, Italy
Oltre curated by Marilena Bonomo, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy
Group Exhibitions
(2011-2016)
2016
2015
2014 2013
The other half of Art. Women artists from the Macro Collection, Macro Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
The collection of La Maison Européenne de la photographie of Paris guest of honor at the Strasburg Contemporary Art Fair, France
Ensemble, quand la Maisonne Européenne de la Photographie collectionne curated by Jean Luc Monterosso
Les Rencontres des Arles, Arles, France
Plumbing-Sequence VII-Real Time video Biennal curated by Alfredo Cramerotti Reykjavik, Iceland
Expression Méditerranéennes de la poesie à l’engagement curated by Jean Luc Monterosso Hotel des Artes, Toulon, France
Rectangular and Square, SepiaEye gallery, New York, NY, US
La Gioia, Maison Particulière, Bruxelles, Belgium
The Polaroid Years curated by Mary-Kay Lombino
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, US
Songes et Visions
Fotomed festival, Beirut, Liban
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,Vassar, NY, US
L’eau et le Reves curated by Jean Luc Monterosso
Normandie Impressionist Festival,Abbaye de Jumieges, Normandie, France
La Magnifica Ossessione, Mart-Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto, Italy
2012
2011
The Edge of Vision curated by Lyle Rexer
Louisiana Art & Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA,US
Light Matter, Pelham Art Center for Contemporary Art, Pelham, NY, USA
Lux - Art and Science Milstein Hall Gallery, Cornell University, NY, USA
The Edge of Vision curated by Lyle Rexer, Shneider Museum of Art, OR, US
A Private History in the Cotroneo Collection Manege, Moscow, Russia
The Edge of Vision curated by Lyle Rexer Cornell Fine Art Museum, Winter Park Florida US
Natura Anfibia, Acquario Civico, Milan, Italy
Selection of books and catalogues
2013 2011
2010
2009
2006
9’/unlimited, Artist Book, Danilo Montanari Editore (Ravenna, 2013)
Prestel-Verlag (Munich-London-New York, 2013)
Red, De Luca Editori d’Arte (Roma, 2011)
No Trace, Contrasto due S.R.L (Roma, 2011)
…But Where is Bari, Percorso nell’arte Contemporanea. La galleria Bonomo dal 1971. a cura di Marilena Bonomo
Umberto Allemandi & C. (Torino, 2010)
La Camera dello Sguardo curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Peliti associati, 2009
Corpi Sottili curated by Marilena Bonomo, De Luca Editori d’Arte (Roma, 2006)
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In my research I often try to crystallise everything which is ephemeral and fleeting throught a practical approach to the
matter, which allows me to cleave to reality and grasp it.
Between the physical and the abstract, nature and the artificial, my research aims – rather than creating single objects - at
making their interior shape and image emerge. Rather than being static or frontal, their features are accomplished thorough
evocations and semantic and visual shifts.
Solo Exhibitions
2015
2014
2013
2011
2010
2008
2006
2005
Attorno ad una conchiglia vuota, Italian Institute of Culture, Paris
Primavera Piangiamore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, MODULES- FONDATION PIERRE BERGÉ – YVES SAINT LAURENT, curated by Daria de Beauvais
Tutto il vento che c’è, Galleria Civica Giovanni Segantini, Arco (Rovereto), in collaboration with Museo dell’Alto Garda, MART (Rovereto), curated by Federico Mazzonelli, Denis Isaia, Federica Caciolli
Tutto il vento che c’è, GAMeC, Bergamo
Testimone di fatti ordinari, MAGAZZINO, Rome
Quando il fuori di adesso era dentro e il dentro era fuori, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania, in collaboration with Palazzo Riso, Palermo
Luogo comune, a double solo show with Stanislao di Giugno, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno
Sfidando la verità con la gravità, Paolo Bonzano Gallery, Rome
L’osso è sacro, Angelo Mai Institute, Rome, curated by Marianna Vecellio
Group Exhibitions
(2010-2016)
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
èdra- Tutta l’Italia è silenziosa, Real Academia Española and Polish Institute, Rome, curated by Davide Ferri
Ce l’ho / mi manca, Museo MAndralisca, Cefalù (PA), curated by Agata Polizzi
L’arte lungo il percorso della battaglia, Obelisco del cimitero militare polacco di Montecassino, Cassino (FR) , curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
M I L K R E V O L U T I O N, American Academy in Rome. A group show compiled by CURA.
There is no place like home, private house, Rome
Made in town, with Gianluca Malgeri, Atelier Made in Town, Paris
Meteorite in giardino, Palazzo Riso, Palermo
Meteorite in Giardino (il meteorite in ambiente), Nuovo Spazio di Casso (Pordenone)
Meteorite in giardino, Fondazione Merz, Turin
«Sletto & Corso » 20th Sélest’art Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Marc Bembekoff and Julien Fronsacq
The Naturalists, La Foce, Castelluccio di Pienza (Siena), curated by Peter Benson Miller
Il fascino discreto dell’oggetto, Figura 2: natura morta, GNAM, Rome, curated by Cecilia Canziani e Ilaria Gianni
Encore, MAGAZZINO, Roma
Reality Show, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno , curated by Stanislao di Giugno
Re-Generation, MACRO, Rome, curated by Ilaria Gianni and Maria Alicata
Smeared with the Gold of the Opulent Sun, NOMAS Foundation, Rome, curated by Chris Sharp
Dormitorio Pubblico, Campoli Presti Gallery, London, curated by Marianna Vecellio
Valentini Contemporary, Palazzo Valentini, Rome, curated by Damiana Leoni
Voglio soltanto essere amato, MAGA, Gallarate, curated by Gabi Scardi and Ruth Cats
When In Rome, Italian Institute Of Culture, Los Angeles, curated by Luca Lo Pinto and Valerio Mannucci
ECC, National Gallery of Cosenza, curated by Claudio Libero Pisano
Never talk to strangers, Edel Assanti, London, curated by Charlotte Artus
Landscape and People of Sicily, Palazzo Riso Museum of Contemporary Art, Palermo curated by Giovanni Iovane
Italian Sculpture of the XXI century, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, curated by Marco Meneguzzo
Mutinity seemed a probability, Giuliani Foundation, Rome, curated by Adrienne Drake
Artist in residence show, Fondazione Pomodoro, Milan, curated by Angela Vettese and Milovan Farronato
Into the folds of the World, Foro Boario, Oristano, curated by Cristiana Collu
SPECIAL PROJECT
2015 La scrittura degli echi, a project curated by NERO for “The Indipendent” at MAXXI, Rome
2011 The wall (archives)#3, Nosadella.due, Bologna, curated by Pietro Gaglianò
2010 The Only One, Trieste Contemporanea, Studio Tommaseo, Trieste, curated by Julia Trolp
2009 Quattro ipotesi di desiderio, in collaboration with Liceo Artistico Giorgio De Chirico di Roma and 1:1projects, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai
Nothing’s gonna change my world, Swiss Institute in Rome, curated by 1:1projects
2008 Manual, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Cracovia
The Unfair Fair, Loto Desing, Rome, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Vincente Honore http://unfairfair.blogspot.
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2007 Selection of Audioworks for ART RADIO LIVE, a project of PS1 MoMA, PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Naples, Perna Foundation, Venice 2007, curated by Laura Barreca
We Are All Outlaw In The Name Of Perù, Bar Perù, Rome, curated by José Cuervo
Out of contest, Parallel Events of MANIFESTA 7, Trento, Rovereto and Bolzano, curated by Daria Filardo, Gino Gianuizzi and Cecilia Guida
2006 Fuori Onda, Paolo Bonzano Gallery, Rome
Prize and ResidencES
2015
2010
2008
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Winner of 16° Premio Cairo, Cairo Editore, Milan
Winner of Global Art Programme, Khoj Studio, New Delhi, in collaboration with Artegiovane Turin/Milan
Winner of Pagine Bianche d’Autore 2007/2008 , Sicily
Passport Prize, Centre International d’Accueil et d’Echanges des Récollets, Paris, with DENA Foundation for Contemporary Art and City of Turin
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In my paintings, tactile and organic visual episodes slide into one another, establishing connections through affinity or contrast. For me, a painting is the place where a simulation occurs, where an image is the result of a stratification of experiences.
This series of paintings reveales my fascination for landscapes and the attraction I have for Rousseau’s last writings and
concepts about Reverie. The paintings depict fragments of nature that appear at first glance as abstract surfaces within a
uniform and vibrantly balanced composition. In a random yet intuitive approach, I use collage technique or layered painting
to compose elements of landscapes and offer the viewer the possibility of strolling amongst various points of view and of
finding themselves in a state of reverie and dreamlike perception of nature. The act of watching the painting goes side by
side with the act of perceiving, entangling all the senses.
Solo Exhibitions
2015 2014
2013 2012 2011 2009 2008 2007 2005 2004 Solo show at Art Brussels fair with Sobering Gallery
Solo show,Coburn project, London
Locus amoenus, Sobering gallery, Paris
Oranizzazione organica di forme, Mac, Contemporary art Museum, Lissone MI Italy
Enclosure, Paradise Row gallery, London
Il sole mi costrinse ad abbandonare il giardino, Brand new gallery, Milan (Cat. text B Schwabsky)
Unfolding the Folds, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Humus, Museum Mart Rovereto I, curated by G.Verzotti, Italy
Sites of action, Scaramouche gallery, New York
Vicarius, Galerie Alexandra Saheb, Berlin
Il sogno è anche un luogo ideale per il desiderio di giustizia, Lucie Fontaine, Milan
Alessandro Roma, Galerie Alexandra Saheb Berlin
Alessandro Roma, Gallery Marabini, Bologna
Alessandro Roma, Gallery Artra, Milan
Group Exhibitions
(2010-2016)
2016
2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 La Pelle, Officina, curated by Fondaco and Officina, Brussels
Drawing Biennial 2015, Drawing Room, London
Hanging by a Thread, by Kate Hiley, Le Cabinet Dentaire, Paris
Accadrà domani an ongoing archive of artists’ books selected by G. Magnani, Museum Marino Marini, Florence IT
Le sanze d’Aragona, Villino Favarola,by H.Marasala and A.Bruciati, Palermo, Italy
Everything is about to happen, Corvi-Mora, Greengrassi gallery, London/ArtistsSpace New York
Il paesaggio mi illude, with N.Ratti, O’ space, Milan
Drawing-points of views, Z2o-Sara Zanin gallery, curated by V.Ciarallo, Rome, Italy
Visioni per un inventario una mappa del navegar pittoresco, Foundation Bevilacqua la Masa,Venice
S. Arancio, A. Guidato, A. Roma, MK Search Art, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy
Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London
Versus, Velan Center, curated by F.Referza, Turin, Italy
Estate, Marianne Boesky gallery, curated by L Fontaine, New York
Never before a girl done so much with so little, The Suburbans curated by L. Fontaine, Chicago
Lacune,Archaeological Museum Eno Bellis, curated by L. Lanteri Oderzo (Tv), Italy
Partita a quattro una riflessione sulla scultura, Gallery Lorcan O’neill, curated by L. Pratesi, Rome
Scultura lingua, Marsellèria, I, curated by B. Meneghel , Milan, Italy
Impresa pittura, International Center for Contemporary Art, curated by R. Gavarro, Gennazzano, Rome, Italy
Route tournante en sous –bois, Uploand Art Project, Trento , Italy
AWARDS
2007
IV International Painting Prize, Diputación de Castellón, Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón
SPECIAL PROJECT
2012 Flaneur, O’ space, with BlisterZine and N.Ratti, Milan

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