Patrizio di Massimo

Patrizio di Massimo’s early works were mainly executed in video, photography and performance. It was only in 2009 that he radically turned to the medium of painting. As a self-taught painter he created a very distinctive style. His paintings are shrouded in mystery and portray human beings in situations of violence, intimacy and abundance. di Massimo’s work is full of references to art history, popular culture and found images. di Massimo positions the spectator as a cautious voyeur as he depicts a decisive moment in these scenes. The uncertainty of what will happen next in his paintings triggers our imagination to make up our own narratives and gives meaning to the paintings.

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1983, Jesi, Italy

Lives and works in London, UK

Education

2009

MA Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK

2007

Undergraduate Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milan, Italy

Solo Exhibitions

2022

As Snug as a Bug in a Rug, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2021

The Tale End of the Tale, T293, Rome, Italy

The Escalator Cycle, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

Close at Hand, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA USA

2019

Il tempo dello sguardo, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino, Italy

Patrizio di Massimo, Kura, at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan, Italy

2018

Inside Me, ChertLüdde, Berlin, Germany

2017

Bread and Circuses, rodolphe janssen, Brussels, Belgium

2016

Patrizio Di Massimo, NICC, Brussels, Belgium

2015

Nipson anomemata me monan opsin, Monteverde Gallery, Castiglioncello del Trinoro, Italy

2014

Are Ere Ire, T293, Rome, Italy

Me, Mum, Mister, Mad’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal

Soft Corners Lining White, Rowing, London, UK

2013

Monologue for two, (performance) Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK

Inside Me (performance), Present Future, Artissima, Turin, Italy

The Lustfult Turk, Gasworks, London, UK

Monologue for two, MdP1, Milan, Italy

2012

The Lustful Turk, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

I want to live like this, T293, Rome, Italy

Buzzi’s Turandot (in the form of notes), (performance), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2011

Modus Operandi, White Fish Tank, Ancona, Italy

2010

The Negus said: Give me the lion keep the stele!, Art 41 Basel, Art Statements, with T293, Switzerland

Col Sole in Fronte, T293, Naples, Italy

2009

Patrizio di Massimo, Zilkha Auditorium1, Whitechapel Art Gallery, Lon don, UK

2008

Italian Wave, Artissima 15, Turin, Italy

Group Exhibitions

2022

Tom of Finland Arts & Culture Festival, London, UK

Ben(i)Tornati, Fondazione CRC, Cuneo, Italy

Works from the collection, Sof:Art, Bologna, Italy

2021

Pittura in persona. La nuova Collezione della Fondazione CRC, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

Kathmandu Triennale, curated by Cosmin Costinas, Kathmandu, Nepal

ITALICS, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, Procida, Italy

The Sublime in Nature, curated by Daniel Malarkey, 24 Cork Street, London

2020

Espressioni, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

Garden of Six Seasons, ParaSite Art Space, Hong Kong

shaking the habitual, Galeria Duarte Sequeira, Braga, Portugal

Portraits forever, Esapce Tajan, Paris, France

Ciò che vedo. Nuova figurazione in Italia, Galleria Civica di Trento, Italy

Via dell’Inferno, Galleria Spazia, Bologna, Italy

2019

Übermauer, BAM - Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo, Italy

Guten Morgen, Europa!, A tale of a Tub, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

2018

IBRIDA, Castello di Perno, Monforte d’Alba, Italy

Nightfall, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium

Total Anastrophes, Volcano Extravaganza, Stromboli, Italy

Take Me (I’m Yours), French Academy at Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

Signori prego si accomodino#3, Lia Pasqualino Noto, Casa Studio, Palermo, Italy

Somatechnics, Museion, Bolzano, Italy

Take Me (I’m Yours), Villa Medici, Rome, Italy

EVA international, Biennal of Visual Art, Limerick, Ireland

Total Anastrophes, DHAKA ART SUMMIT, Bangladesh

2017

Through the looking Glass, Palazzo Capris, Turin, Italy

Guest, Ghost, Host, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK (performance)

Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy

The Absent Artist, Netwerk, Aals, Belgium

Grim Tales, Cassina Projects, New York, NY USA

Storie e Opere, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e le Culture, Castelbasso, Italy

Sette Messaggeri, Marsèlleria, curated by Ilaria Marotta and Andrea Baccin, Milan, Italy

An ear, severed, listens, Chert Lüdde, Berlin , Germany

2016

Ritiro, Lucie Fontaine’s Kayu, Indonesia

Artisti per Frescobaldi, Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM), Milan, Italy

Prediction, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, Brazil

Mundus Muliebris, CURA Basement, Rome, Italy

2015

Give a man a mask and he will tell you the truth – Oscar Wilde, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium

Ennesima, Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte Italiana, Triennale di Mila no, Milan, Italy

The Ultimate Vessel, Koppe Astner, Glasgow, Scotland

Impossible Love, Projektraum Viktor Bucher, Vienna, Austria

Movi(e)ing Museum, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, China

Signori prego si accomodino, Studio Casa Scatturin, Carlo Scarpa, Ven ice, Italy

I am here but you have gone, Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK

Natural Beginners, La Rouvraie, Paris, France

2014

Diamanti, Careof DOCVA, La Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, Italy

GLITCH. Interferenze tra arte e cinema, PAC, Milan, Italy

Anatomy of Anxieties, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong

Domesticity V, Lucie Fontaine’s Kayu, Bali, Indonesia

Tra storia e memoria, Sotterranei di Rocca Costanza, Pesaro, Italy

Don’t You Know Who I Am? – Art after Identity Politics, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium

Ritratto dell’artista da giovane, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

Camel Blues, Kinman, London, UK

Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles, USA

A Venus do Ébano, Museu de Arte do Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2013

From script to reading to exhibition to performance to print, Rowing, London, UK

Le Ragioni della Pittura. Esiti e prospettive di un medium, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e le Culture, Castelbasso, Italy

Souvenir, organized by Lucie Fontaine, Galerie Perrotin, Paris, France

The 338 Hour Cineclub, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

De Puristes et de Fauves, Shanaynay, Paris, France

It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong

A House of Leaves. Third Movement, David Roberts Art Foundation, London

2012

D’après Giorgio, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy

Man among the ruins’, TEOR/èTICA, San José, USA

Fuoriclasse, GAM, Milan, Italy

La storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto), Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

Estate, Marianne Boensky Gallery, New York, USA

Prospettive Italiane, Palazzo Borghese, Roma, Italy

Maison Opera, La Commun, Bac Batiment, Geneva, Switzerland

Rituals without myth, Royal College of Art, London, UK

Premio Italia 2012, Maxxi, Rome, Italy

2011

Essere Italiano, Musei Civici di Palazzo Buonaccorsi, Macerata, Italy

One caption hides another, Betansalon, Paris, France

Hantologie des colonies, Kiasma International, Paris, France

Ceci n’est pas du cinema, Castello di Rivoli e Museo Nazionale del cine ma, Torino, Italy

Para/Site Open 2011, ParaSite, Hong Kong

Il Bel Paese dell’Arte, Gamec, Bergamo, Italy

Alighiero e Boetti day, Teatro Regio, Torino, Italy

Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic

Tous cannibales, Me Collectors Room, Berlin, Germany

Tous cannibales, Mason Rouge, Paris, France

Talenti emergenti, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy

Matter of action, O’Artoteca, Milan, Italy

Italian Video Today: Social and Individual Identity, Crane Arts, Philadel phia, USA

2010

See reason, Stedelijk Bureau Museum of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Se vuoi che questa storia continui…, Neon Campobase, Bologna, Italy

More Pricks than Kicks, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

SI – Sindrome Italiana, Magasin, Grenoble, France

VideoReport Italia 2008/2009, Galleria Civica di Monfalcone, Monfal cone, Italy

Evading Customs, Le Dictateur, Milan, Italy

Let us compare with mythologies, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands

You, We + Ablo, Rotonda della Besana, Milan, Italy

Low Decò, FAI Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan, Italy

21×21: 21 artisti per il 21° secolo, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin, Italy

A Performance Cycle, Nomas Foundation, Rome, Italy

Art in the auditiorium, Foundation Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Tristes Tropiques, The Barber Shop and Novo Museo Tropical, Lisbon, Portugal

Tutta la memoria del mondo, Gam, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy

2009

Disegni Europei, Galleria OREDARIA Arti, Rome, Italy

Hypnotic Show, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

Hypnotic Show, Kunstverein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The object of the attack, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

Art in the Auditorium, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Berga mo

Degree Show, Slade School of Art, London, UK

Playlist, Neon campobase, Bologna, Italy

Video!, Henie Onstad Art Centre, Hovikodden, Norway

Eppur si muove, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene, Italy

Desiring Necessities, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK

Documents, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Turin, Italy

Senza rete, Complesso di S. Spirito in Sassia, Rome, Italy

2008

…Cast the first stone, Chert Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Flux capacitator, Extraspazio Gallery, Rome, Italy

The Interim Show, Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, UK

One of this things is not like the other things, Unosunove, Rome, Italy

The shortest short story ever written…, Form Content Project Space, London, UK

I desired what you were, I need what you are, Maze Gallery, Turin, Italy

2006

Salon Primo, Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy

2004

Arrivederci e grazie, Viafarini, Milan, Italy

Curated Exhibitions

2010

More Pricks Than Kicks, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

Awards

2016

Selected as finalist for Artisti per Frescobaldi, Italy

2012

Selected as a finalist for Premio Italia 2012, MAXXI, Rome, Italy

2008

Artegiovane, Turin and Milan, special mention, Italy

Residencies

2012

Stipendium Kunstzeitraum, Munich, Germany

2011

De Ateliers, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2010

Sommerakademie, Centre Paul Klee, Bern, Germany

2009

Fondazione Banna Spinola per l’Arte, Banna di Poirino, Italy

Public Collections

Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy

The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK

Fiorucci Art Trust, London, UK

Lewben Art Foundation, Vilnius, Lithuania

Malvina Menegaz Foundation for Arts and Culture, Castelbasso, Italy

Italian Embassy in London, UK

Jiménez - Colon Collection, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Collezione Giuseppe Iannaccone, Milan, Italy