Biography
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Visual artist, he holds experience in the areas of installation, performance and video.
Primary the use of video medium, both for what concerns installations and performance, usually using direct shooting.
He lives and works between Turin and Biella.
Over the years he carried out his own research, creating at last a peculiar, personal language through the use of transparent materials, red threads, writings: minimal elements, both in his wall works and in performances and site-specific installations. In the last period his artistic research evolved in relation to Biella textile tradition, making use of the intertwining of plastic materials fabrics as his personal stylistic code.
Among the exhibits: "Archeologia Futura" by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Gabriele Boccacini for the Biennale of Young Artists "BIG 2000” (Turin); "mirror" installation within "BIG 2000" (Caraglio, Cuneo); "Villaggio Globale" (Valletta, Malta) 2002; "Le Pareti della Solitudine" Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella) 2002; "Gemine Muse" (Biella) 2003; "100 times Stalker" (Glasgow, England) 2004; "Food Design" (Turin) 2004; "Gemine Muse" (Roman, Romania) 2004; “Art Luggage" (Catania) 2007; “13x17” Italy Pavilion (Venice - and other locations: Naples, Biella, Pescara, Palermo, Bologna, Rome) 2007-08; “Quotidiana" (Padua) 2007; "13x17" Venice Biennale (Bologna) 2012; “The Others” (Turin) 2013-14 editions; “Setup Art Fair” (Bologna) 2013-14-15 editions; “t_essere_territorio” 1.900 meters height installation-performance with Gabriella Maiorino (Netherlands) by Ewa Gleisner (Mucrone Lake, Biella) 2015; “SWAB” (Barcelona, Spain) 2015 portanova12 gallery (BO), SetUp Art Fair 2016 (Bologna) Riccardo Costantini Contemporary (TO).
Solo exhibits: “Fino a qui” (Villa Schneider, Biella) 2002; “Alla Corte dell'Arte” (Andorno, Biella) 2004; “Rapporti A2” with Luciano Pivotto (Officine CAOS, Turin) 2007; “BI-BOx1”, opening BI-BOx space (Biella) 2011; “Invasioni” (Ex ENEL Palace – BI-BOx, Biella) 2013; “intrecci_in_tessuti” (BI-BOx, Biella) 2014; “ricerca_d_identità” (Paola Meliga Gallery, Turin) 2015; “ricerca_d_identità” (Adiacenze – Caravan SetUp, Bologna) 2015Cortile Lagrange Palazzo Cavour (Totino) 2016.
He was cured, among others, by: Antonio Arevalo, Guido Bartorelli, Philippe Daverio, Irene Finiguerra, Olga Gambari, Teresa Iannotta, Marina Mojana, Stefania Schiavon, Angela Vettese, Alessia Locatelli, Alice Zannoni.
He collaborated with Michelangelo Pistoletto in Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto (Biella) from 1997 to 2004.
He works regularly as a performer with the theatre company “Stalker Teatro” in Turin since 1997, making experiences in Italy and abroad (France, Spain, Portugal, Poland, Israel , England, Malta). He realized with the company national and international co-productions, working with: Akademia Ruchu (Poland), Gabriella Maiorino (Netherlands), Ex Nihilo (France), Scene Plastyczna (Poland), Eugenio Barba (Denmark), Remondi & Caporossi (Italy), Pierre Byland (France) , Marigia Maggipinto (Italy).
