Massimo Catalani Uvetta Raisins Grapes Original Mixed Media on Board 21"

Description

Vintage original mixed media on board still life by Italian artist Massimo Catalani (b. 1960) titled “Uvetta” (Raisins / grapes), showing a stem of orange / golden grapes in a slightly speckled black background. Circa 2000.

Massimo Catalani was born in Rome in 1960 and has been living and working there eversince. He graduated in Architecture in 1988. In his thesis he had already begun experimenting with mixed media that included painting, modelling and architectural masonry. In his first group exhibition, he presented subjects that were “irreverent” not only for the world of art but also for the public: plates of pasta with zucchini, roman artichokes, prickly pears and chili pepper triptychs. After the success of his first personal exhibition in Rome, various exhibitions in Italy and abroad followed. In the last five years, the distinction of his work has lead him to present exhibitions and performances in the main cities of Europe, in the USA, in Korea, Russia, Japan, in the EAU and in South America. His works are part of important private and public collections worldwide.

Extended:
Massimo Catalani was born in Rome on April 2, 1960. He grew up in his mother's stationery shop surrounded by books, brushes and colours. He graduated in 1988 in Architectural Composition and enrolled in the Order of Architects of Rome. In the thesis project he experiments, and invents, pictorial mixtures on the border between painting, sculpture, architectural masonry and it is here that he decides for his debut as an artist. In the first group exhibitions he exhibited subjects irreverent for the art world and reverent for the public, overturning the common sense of the time. In the first personal exhibition ""Natura Picta"",at Roma&Arte, in Rome, he puts colorful paintings on the wall, simple subjects, surprising materials in a world poised between conceptual and minimal, initiating a way of exposing himself that is also certainly artistic but also social and ecological activism. In 1993, in response to the mafia's bombs, he painted chickens in search of new intelligences. In 1995 at the Polyptych he presented “Vedo Terra” , fixed points in a turbulent world placed in images of the sea. In 1996 he presented an exhibition of tactile painting for sighted and non-sighted people in Santa Maria in Vallicella: ""Sento Terra"" , with the Municipality and Caritas, in support of the Lega del Filo d'Oro. In 1997, in Geneva, she inaugurated “Woman, Just part of Her”.In 1998 he gave life to Video-Walls composing analogies of television screens depicting what television cannot show: the beauty of a priceless object. In 1999 he intervened on the agricultural character of Rome with the title ""Metropoli Agricola""; paintings, sculptures and installations at the Regional Authority for agricultural areas of Lazio: from where a bunch of tomatoes measuring 6×6 meters rises towards the city. In 2000 at the Arthus gallery in Brussels he presented a vast anthology, subsequently in the PescePalla gallery, Tribeca, New York, offers ""LIFE"" a vision of Italy and the nature of its foods. In the same year he presented in the cloister of SS. Quattro Incoronati, in Rome, the exhibition ""Sacred Symbols"". In 2001, from Campaiola gives life to“Are you afraid of being Beautiful?” where he attributes to the roses the additional symbolic value of representing the beauty of painting in general. In 2002 she painted and donated a tree to the Gin Charity Gala in Montecarlo for the victims of 9/11. In 2003 you returned to the themes of Architecture by presenting ""La mia Roma"" in Milan. You deal with the theme of the interpretation of the love text with the exhibition ""SMS-TXT Hermeneutics of the love message"" , curated by AM Sette and presented at the Teatro Sala Umberto, Rome. Other exhibitions in Belgium, Switzerland. In spring 2004 you hold an anthology in Seoul. In September she held a one-man show in New York entitled “My Urbanity”. In the winter of 2005 you presented “Anto-illogica” in Milan and Geneva .He opens 2006 with the series “Individual and Society”: the individual in his social group and their collective intelligence. Work on the immanence of celestial space begins, while he reflects with Vincenzo Cerami and prepares the ""Roots of Italian Wine"" which will leave Tokyo in November 2007 to tour Japan and then continue on to Australia. In Rome with Greenpeace mounts and wins a campaign against the use of GMOs in Parmigiano Reggiano. In St. Petersburg he furnishes the Il Palazzo restaurant and paints with wine for a charity auction. In 2008 he published “Nihil Nihilism”a book with the philosophical framework of his work. Exhibitions in Pienza, Orbetello. His works are in the cinema of Pupi Avati (2), Cristina Comencini, Alessandro Benvenuti, Jaume Collet-Serra. His television interviews are visible on YouTube. He works on the mythological character of the Roman world with a series of works oriented more towards conceptual art and which have sheep as subjects. On this theme you build and perform in Lucca, Rome, Milan a performance entitled ""Myth"". He inaugurates in Berlin, in the summer of 2009 ""Di Terra e di Mare"" where he explores the theme of human ingenuity read through the products of marine art and at the same time mounts an installation with Greenpeace at Slow Fish in Genoa. In the autumn, in Rome, he returns to the human condition with the""The Femininity of the Earth"" . The work “Nuclearized Earth” for a campaign on nuclear waste. In spring 2010, he was on display in Brescia, in Pistoia as a guest of Pietro Barni with ""The Incredible Roses"" , in the Vatican for ""Mirabile Dictu"", with the City of Rome at the Baths of Diocletian for ""The Essential Luxury"" . In 2011 the work ""launch your missile against nuclear power"" for the victorious referendum. Develop research on painting in the dark using luminescence. In January 2012, with La Sapienza and RomaTre, he designed and built a 10-metre ""Alice Luminescente"" in Madrid for a solar house within the Solar Decathlon. It opens in Munich“La Féminité de la Terre” the pictorial story of an encounter with 18 different people. In March 2013 she sculpts the “Ittico Obelisco”, a 10-ton block of Carrara marble for Casa dei Pesci together with the public of Villa Torlonia in Rome. For April 25 with ""Liberation from Illegal Train"" she is in Trapani on the Artic Sunrise with a performance for a new marriage with the sea. In July in S. Rita in Campitelli you inaugurate “Not Passengers, Just Crew” ; more cinema and television. In 2014 tour of exhibitions conferences and workshops in Chile; in Barga (LU); sculpts the “Ittico Ziggurat” with 20 tons of marble ; presents the exhibition “Roma, Peintures Photoluminescentes”in Monte Carlo. In January 2015 Artefiera in Bologna. In March at the Bienal del Fin del Mundo in Chile. In May he presents his short film ""There She Blows"", on the origin of food ingredients, first in the competition category and special mention at the Art Doc Festival, while his ""Ittico Zigguratt ” is put to sea in Talamone (GR) in the first museum of underwater sculptures to defend the seabed. You participate in a group show on the theme of luminescence at Rocca delle Macie. The year ends with a large installation in the residence of the Italian Embassy in Abu Dhabi. Start 2016 with an “Architecture Wunderkammer”at the Artefiera of Bologna with Campaiola. In June he presents an exhibition and a workshop on Architecture in Paris and in July he participates in the collective exhibition of the XLIX Premio Vasto. 2017, after Artefiera, begins with large monochrome trees (the breath of the earth) ; on environmental issues (my cousin with fins) ; metaphysical (the enigma of an autumn afternoon) which he presents in September at the Lugano Fair; conferences and workshops. In December he gives a lecture at the Glazunov Academy in Moscow and participates in the Group Show in the new space of the nm>contemporary gallery in Munich. In '18 the Milan Triennale named him ""Ambassador of Italian Design"". In March he holds two conferences at the IIC and at the AIA in Los Angeles. In May he presents the new research “The Flow” at the nm>contemporary gallery in Munich. Two fairs in autumn: Wopart, Lugano and Artverona. In November the Thaiita exhibition in Bangkok. In December ""Atlantis"" at the Galleria Il Sole, Rome and participation in the Festival for the Earth, Venice.

Condition

Good overall, wear / distressing / scuffs.

Dimensions

20.5” x 0.75” x 16” (Width x Depth x Height)