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Born in Bergamo, Italy 1982, lives and works in Turin. He mainly focuses on painting, but his experiences range from photography to video, from sculpture to installation.

His artistic research feeds on travels and experiences aimed to investigate the close relationship between human and the surrounding environment.

Man is the leading actor in the interaction with the urban space, the place he stay is always humanized, and is a witness to the conditioning that society contributes to nature.

In 2021, he founded DRIM | Contemporary art ground, an artist run space in the heart of Turin, where he purpose various exhibition of emerging, national and international artists.

In My paintings investigate the relationship between people and the environment that surrounds them, focusing my work on the subject of cities, which is prominent in my production.

There are places, such as the interior parts of train stations, underground stations, airports and squares, defined as the main “non-places” in a city by sociologist Marc Augè, with big streams of people who do not really meet every day.

They are spaces set for multiple uses, anonymous and stereotyped where the frenzied impermanence is emphasized by maps in the background, which can be interpreted as destinations to reach. Through a color range of expressionist inspiration the portrayed figures appear as being without identity and immersed in solitude determined by the short passage between the tracks and the exteriors.

I describe through painting the concept of speed arising from the rhythm of our times, using a metropolitan landscape which he previously visited and photographed in person. I convey on canvas my own experience as a tireless traveller. My pieces of art aim to show the present and be an active part of it, by immersing in the rhythm of society, they go beyond the result of working only in a studio.

Born in Bergamo, Italy 1982, lives and works in Turin. He mainly focuses on paintings, but his experiences range from photography to video, from sculpture to installation.

His artistic research feeds on travels and experiences aimed to investigate the close relationship between human and the surrounding environment. Man is the leading actor in the interaction with the urban space, the place he stay is always humanized, and is a witness to the conditioning that society contributes to nature.

In 2021, he founded DRIM | Contemporary art ground, an artist run space in the heart of Turin, where he purpose various exhibition of emerging, national and international artists.

CV

STUDIES

2001 – 2005 | Fine art academy of Brera, Milano

1996 – 2000 | Art school Giovanni Manzoni, Bergamo

UPCOMING SHOWS

2023 Group show | Ivy Brown Gallery, New York (USA)

2023 Fiberstorming, curated by Barbara Pavan | former University, Bergamo (IT)

2022 The Soft Revolution, curated by Barbara Pavan | Textile Museum, Busto Arsizio (IT)

SOLO SHOWS

2022 Texĕre, curated by Barbara Pavan and Susanna Cati | SCD Studio, Perugia (IT)

2022 Extended version | Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea, Torino (IT)

2021 So far, so close | Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea @ Showroom Dielle Ceramiche, Bergamo (IT)

2019 raffaella de chirico arte contemporanea torino milano bergamo new york

2022 Art Verona fair, with Manuel Zoia Gallery, Verona (IT)

2021 WOP art fair Lugano | Raffaella De Chirico Arte Contemporanea (CH)

2019 Art Market Budapest | Name 1 London Art Gallery (HUN)

2019 Frame Art Fair Basel | Name 1 London Art Gallery (CH)

2018 Luxemburg Art Fair | Independent Artists Gallery (LUX)

2018 Frame Art Fair Basel | Name 1 London Art Gallery (CH)

2017 Affordable Art Fair Milano | Federica Morandi Art Project (IT)

RESIDENCES

2019 Art Akwani | Bazaleti lake, Georgia (GEO)

2018 SMD Art Foundation, Bramaputra river art festival | Guwahati, Assam, India (IND)

2017 Zenith Art and Fashion Gallery | Miami (USA)

2017 Ode to life, Petrovic castle | Podgorica, Montenegro (MNE)