Cipresso II, 2019, Terracotta, 12 x 13 x 30 cm
Venere Chimica, 2019, Plaster, mirror and rubber, 40 x 30 x 20 cm
Il Ponte, 2014. Installation of mirrors
Open, 2005. Installation of mirrors
Uno e cinque, 2008. Steel, glass, neon tubes
Stadera, 2006. Iron, plaster and graphite, 47x62x20 cm
No title, 2009. Ceramic, and graphite powder, variable dimensions
Orizzonte I, 2018, Terracota vases and aluminum bar, 300 x 10 x 20 cm
Ermetica, 2009. Paper, glass, copper tape
Cipresso III, 2019, Terracotta, 13 x 9 x 18 cm
Statement
"For me, the artwork is always the product of a continuous observation of reality that is resolved and takes shape through a long distillation work. This work goes through various phases whose final result gives life to an archetypal form, an original form that potentially contains infinite possible variations.
Each work I make is linked to the previous one by formal affinity or even by contrast. In my work I always alternate opposite and complementary values: rigid-soft, hot-cold, organic-inorganic, natural-artificial, interior-exterior etc.
I see my works as anachronistic machines that escape of the present time. They do not reflect popular aspects or images, they are like fossilized organisms for me, something similar than fragments of history suspended in space and time. They are condensed in silence, in balance with the space.
Many of the works that I have created have their origin in the observation of nature and the relationship that is created between the point of view and the observed landscape, between interior space and exterior space.
In relation to the audience I would like an attitude of meditation, reflection, listening and reworking. I think that the ideal viewer for my exhibitions is the one who is not satisfied seeing it only once, if not someone who needs to come back to relive an unique experience.
For me, art is the only means capable of transmitting one of the fundamental values of man: freedom".
EDUCATION
2014 Pollock – Krasner Foundation Grant
1997 Visual Arts Graduate Level Course, Ratti Foundation, professor Allan Kaprow
1994 Winchester School of Art, UK
1991 – 1995 Academy of Fine Art, UK
1986 – 1991 Institute of Arts, Perugia
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2000 – 2016 Professor of Artistic Education
2000 – 2005 Founder and coordinator of the Association of Contemporary Art IRIDE, Perugia
1997 – 1998 Collaborator at Pecci Museum, Prato, Italy
1998 Assistant professor of Prof. Chris Sacker, Halifax School of Integrated Arts, UK
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Eros, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2019
Still Life, Cultural Centre Guiseppe Verdi, Segrate, Milan
2018
En equilibrio, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2017
Solaris, Società Anonima, Perugia, Italy
2016
La Distancia Necesaria, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid
2015
Perfetta Armonia, Breed Art Studios, Amsterdam
2014
Theorema Egregium, IsNotGallery, Nicosia, Chyprus
Of incontra le opere di Stefano Bonacci, Perugia
2013
Spiriti Amanti, Ex Church of Santa María del Pozo, Spoleto
2010
Trittico, Ex Church Santa María de la Cruz, Studio A87, Spoleto
2009
Dialogo#1, (with Pietro Fortuna) Cardelli e Fontana Gallery, Sarzana, La
Spezia
2007
Matrice, (Permanent Sculpture) Palazzo Comunale, Spoleto
2006
Forms of time, Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford, UK
1:1 (with Chris Sacker) Formentini Gallery, curated by Alice Spadacini, Milán
Angels, Tribe, Ossaia di Cortona
2005
299.792,458 , Senko Studio, Viborg, Denmark
2004
Luoghi d'osservazione (with Klaus Munch), Lerici
Flumini, Ex Church of Santa María del Pozo, Spoleto
Ecce Ancilla Domini, Wunderkammern, Spello
Colui che osserva , Parkhaus, Düsseldorf
2002
Eterno Ritorno, En Lefko, Nicosia, Cyprus
Dialogo , Spazio espositivo Aletheia, Perugia
2001
Cosmos, Sala Cannoniera, Rocca Paolina, Perugia
1999
Una realtà più vera, Studio Bibliografico Ulisse, Perugia
1998
Visiting Artist 1997/98, The Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax, UK
1995
1995 WAR, Atelier, Perugia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
TODI Festival, Umbria, Italy
2018
En equilibrio, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Alfabeti, Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy
2016
+arte, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Tower of Babel, Schema Gallery, New York, USA
Is not Gallery goes to Almyra, Pafos, Cyprus
Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, Archeological museum of Spoleto, Italy
Tower of Babel, Trebisonda Gallery, Perugia, Italy
RestArt, Breed Art Studios, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arte di Ricerca per la Ricerca, Telethon, Florence, Italy
Estampa, Contemporary Art Fair, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, España
2015
ΠΛΟΥΣΙΑ ΤΕΧΝΗ ΣΕ ΦΤΩΧΟΥΣ ΚΑΙΡΟΥΣ (Arte ricca in tempo di poveri), IsNotGallery Nicosia, Cyprus
Contemporáneo, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid
Baculus, Palazzo Collicola, Carandente Museum, Spoleto
Art Nexus II, Different Gallery, London
IV Charitable Exhibition Pablo Horstmann Foundation
2014
Luce nera, Sala Urbani, Scheggino
Baculus, Church of Santiago, Cerreto di Spoleto
2013
Opera-Terra, contemporary pottery, Ranghiasci Park, Gubbio
Viaggiatori sulla Flaminia, Church of S.Antonio, Cascia
Opus & Light, Church of Santa María del Pozo, Porta Monterone, Spoleto
2012
Memory cash project, Venus & Apoll, Düsseldorf
2011
Luccellacci… 'Luccellini 3° atto, Studio A’87 – Ex Church of San Carlos, Spoleto
Padiglione Italia, 54° Venice Art Biennial, Sala Nervi, Turin
2010
A place for everything and everything in its place, Worksetting Gallery, Huddersfield, UK
2009
Abracadabra, (with C.Sacker y T.Moore), Giacomo Guidi Gallery, Roma
Light, curated by Michael Shaw, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford, UK
2008
Costanti ossessioni, Giacomo Guidi Gallery, Roma
Parkhaus, Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
Migrazioni d’arte contemporanea, Rain Gallery, Fabrica 798, Beijing
XV Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma
2007
Nel giardino di Dea, curated by Aldo Iori, Trevignano Romano
Terra di Maestri, curated by G. Bonomi, Villa Fidelia, Spello
2006
Premio del Golfo, curated by Bruno Corà, Camec, La Spezia
XII Biennale Internazionale della Scultura, curated by Bruno Corà, Carrara
Accueil, curated by Aldo Iori, Studio Schomber, Roma
Heavenly Bodies, curated by Michael Shaw, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford, UK
2005
Bos'art, Capuchin Convent, Bosa, Sardegna
Contrafforti, Alite Group Associati, Perugia
Tracce, Cetona, Siena
Sculptors Drawing, curated by Michael Shaw, Burghley Sculpture Garden, Stamford, UK
11 Artisti di una collezione, Trebisonda Art Center, Perugia
2004
ABTamo, curated by Antonio Pazzaglia, La Fratta Show Room, Perugia
Tracce di civilità, curated by Mauro.Panzera, S.Casciano dei Bagni, Siena
Appetizers, Spazio Contemporaneo Gallery, Deruta, Peugia
Forme del tempo, Associazione Arti Visive, Trebisonda, Perugia
2003
Terrae Nigrae, Permanent Sculpture, Marcellano
VerSanti Sibillini, curated by Daniele Di Ludovico, Biblioteca comunale, Cascia
Linea Umbra 01, curated by Maurizio Coccia, Flash Art Museum, Trevi
Al di là del visibile, Rocca Medicea, Cortona
Libero libro d’artista libero, curated by Franco Troiani, Church of San Carlos, Spoleto
2002
Next Art, 20 musei scelgono l’arte di domani, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Sala
Murat, Bari
De mentis hortis, Modern Art Gallery, Spoleto
2001
La seduzione del caos, Loggia dei Lanari, Perugia
Biennale dei Giovani Artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo, National Art Gallery, Sarajevo, Bosnia Herzegovina
Numero zero, curated by Aldo Iori, Associazione Arti Visive Trebisonda, Perugia
Quiescenze, Aletheia, Perugia
La seduzione del caos, Banja Luka, Bosbia Herzegovina
2000
Acqua Comune, Bar Basso, Milan
Angelus Novus, Rocca Paolina, Perugia
Futurama, curated by Bruno Corà, Raffaele Gavarro and Marco Meneguzzo, Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato
Premio del Golfo, curated by Giovanni Castagnoli, La Spezia
Castrum, curated by M. Agostinelli, Rocca of Camerino, Rocca of Varano, Fiuminata, Vestignano
1999
Welcome Bienvenus, Acquario Comunale, Génova
Caratteri Anatomici, Archeological Museum, Cassino
1998
Anatomy of sintesis (with Chris Sacker and Tony Moore), Hebden Bridge Arts
Festival, UK
Action Imageante 10, curated by Piero Cavellini and Mauro Panzera, Sala Baganza, Parma
Action Imageante 9, curated by Piero Cavellini and Mauro Panzera, Ravenna
25h, Case Bruciate, Perugia
Assisi Musicae, curated by Fine Arts Academy of Perugia, Rocca Maggiore, Assisi
Tracce di un seminario, curated by Giacinto Di Pietrantoni and Angela Vettese,
Galleria Viafarini, Milan
Mostra di fine corso, curated byAngela Vettese and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio
Corso Superiore di Arte Visiva, Church of San Francisco, Ratti Foundation, Como
1997
Artecon, Corte dei Miracoli, Siena
Siete tutti invitati, Via Tuscania, Perugia
1996
Muteazioni 02, curated by Muteazioni, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia
Muteazioni 01, curated by Muteazioni, Passignano sul Trasimeno
1995
Anteprima, curated by Giorgio Bonomi, Corciano
VIDEO
2009 Aenigmata
2006 Cells
1999 Una realtà più vera
1995 1995 WAR
ART FAIRS
2019
Estampa, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2018
Drawing Room, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Estampa, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, Spain
2017
Context NY, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, New York, USA
2016
Context NY, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, New York, USA
Art Marbella, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Marbella, Spain
Estampa, Contemporary Art Fair, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid, España
2015
Miami Art Fair, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Miami, USA
Summa Art Fair, Lucía Mendoza Gallery, Madrid
2010
Artefiera, Giacomo Guidi Gallery, Bologna
