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Alessandro Piangiamore was born in 1976 in Enna, Italy. He lives and works in Rome. In his work, he focuses on a restorative function of art, each time creating a filter from the incessant flow of images in our daily life. The artist engages with physical laws while simultaneously exploring the possibilities of archetypal forms. His work generates visual paradoxes between appearance and reality, concept and form, imagination and the real world.
<<In my research I often try to crystallize everything which is ephemeral and fleeting through 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 – to make their inside shape and images emerge. Rather than being static or frontal, their features are accomplished thorough evocations and semantic and visual shifts>> – Alessandro Piangiamore
He has staged solo shows in museums and galleries such as the Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2014); Galleria Civica Giovanni Segantini, Arco, Trento (2013); GAMeC, Bergamo (2011); Galleria Magazzino, Rome (2016 – 2011); Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania (2010); Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno (2008); Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome (2006); Angelo Mai, Rome (2005). Furthermore his works have been displayed in several museums and institutions: Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome (2017); Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (2016); Palazzo della Permanente, Milan (2015); Frédéric de Goldschmidt collection, Brussels (2016); Italian Institute of Culture, Paris (2015); MAXXI, Rome (2015); Fondazione Merz, Turin (2014); MACRO, Rome (2012); NOMAS Foundation, Rome (2012); MAGA, Gallarate, Varese (2011); Italian Institute of Culture, Los Angeles (2011); Galleria Nazionale di Cosenza (2011); Palazzo Riso Museum of Contemporary Art, Palermo (2010); Galleria Comunale d’Arte Monfalcone (2009); Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Rivoli, Turin (2008); MANIFESTA 7, Trento (2008); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’Alba, Turin (2007). From May 1st to June 14th 2018 he held the first New York exhibition at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art NY and Galleria Magazzino, Rome.