Born 1976 in Enna, Sicily. Lives and works in Rome.
Born in Enna, Sicily, in 1976, Alessandro Piangiamore lives and works in Rome. His work unfolds as a deeply poetic exploration in which matter becomes language and time acts as a silent partner in creation. Whether in sculpture, installation, photography or assemblage, his practice is characterised by a subtle tension between mastery and abandon, form and dissolution, presence and disappearance.
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For Piangiamore, nature is not only a source of inspiration: it is co-author of the work. Wind, wax, ash, dust, flowers and light become the raw materials of pieces that defy permanence and embrace the ephemeral. His most emblematic series, such as Tutto il vento che c’è, in which he seeks to give form to the invisible, or his wax panels bearing the traces of fire, testify to his desire to make visible what usually escapes the gaze.
Far from any linear narrative, Piangiamore’s work evokes a kind of sensitive archaeology of the world: an exploration in which chance converses with memory, and in which the work becomes the receptacle of fugitive energies. His art does not impose itself; it is revealed slowly, in a mental space suspended between the raw beauty of the elements and the symbolic charge they carry.
Exhibited at the Palais de Tokyo, the Punta della Dogana, the MAXXI and the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Piangiamore has established himself as one of the most singular voices of the contemporary Italian art scene.
Teaching1→
depuis 2021
Professeur de sculpture, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, Rome
Awards and residencies5→
2015
Lauréat du 16e Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milan
2010
Lauréat du Global Art Programme, résidence, Khoj Studios, New Delhi
2008
Lauréat de Pagine Bianche d’Autore, Région de Sicile
2007
Lauréat du Premio Passaporto, Ville de Turin et Fondation DENARésidence, Centre international d’accueil et d’échanges des Récollets, Paris
Solo exhibitions19→
2026
La polvere ci mostra che la luce esiste, Repetto Gallery, Lugano
2024
Arcobaleno di notte, Villa Mondolfo, Côme
2022
Frangiflutti, Galleria Magazzino, Rome
2021
Qualche uccello si perde nel cielo, Litografia Bulla, Rome
2020
Il silenzio non m’inganna, Siegfried Contemporary, Londres
2018
La Chair des choses, une rose et quatre vents, Espace arts plastiques Madeleine-Lambert, VénissieuxLa Chair des choses, dans la poussière…, La Halle des Bouchers, VienneMarango, Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York University
2016
Quaranta, Galleria Magazzino, Rome
2014
Primavera Piangiamore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2013
Tutto il vento che c’è, Galleria Civica Giovanni Segantini, Arco
2011
Tutto il vento che c’è, GAMeC, BergameTestimone di fatti ordinari, Galleria Magazzino, Rome
2010
Quando il fuori di adesso era dentro e il dentro era fuori, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catane
2008
Luogo comune, Galleria Tiziana Di Caro, Salerne
2007
Una questione privata, Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome
2006
Sfidando la verità con la gravità, Galleria Paolo Bonzano, Rome
2005
L’osso è sacro, Istituto Angelo Mai, Rome
2003
InFrantumi, Rialto Santambrogio, Rome
Group exhibitions (selection)55→
2025
The Gorgeous Nothings, Flowers at Chatsworth, Chatsworth House, BakewellEast and West, From Shanghai to Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, RomeTra il mito e il sacro, Museo Carlo Bilotti, RomeArt & Nature, Inside Out, Villa Arconati, Bollate
2024
Le tentazioni di Apollo, PRAC, Ponzano Romano
2023
Panorama XIX, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, RomeViaggio in Italia XXI, Institut culturel italien, BerlinFabriano Contemporanea #1, Intrecci, Fabriano
2022
Le Songe d’Ulysse, Fondation Carmignac, PorquerollesThe Italians, Margulies Collection, MiamiPanorama Monopoli, ITALICS, MonopoliSur le motif, Espace arts plastiques Madeleine-Lambert, VénissieuxViaggio in Italia XXI, Museo Casa di Goethe, Rome
2021
Camera Picta, Galleria Civica, TrenteCarta coreana, Hanji, Museo Carlo Bilotti, RomeAjiar, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienne
2020
What’s New ? Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, LuganoA Sentimental Landscape, Museo dell’Alto Garda, Riva del GardaTransatlantico, Mana Contemporary, Jersey CityInsieme, Mura Aureliane, Rome
2019
Luogo e Segni, Punta della Dogana, Pinault Collection, VeniseNature Is What We See, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, LuganoRagione e sentimento, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2018
Intermezzo, Villa Zito, PalermeLa febbre, Palazzo Mazzarino, Palerme
2017
Da io a noi, Palais du Quirinal, Rome
2016
Time Is Out of Joint, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, RomeThe Lasting, l’intervallo e la durata, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, RomePar Tibi Roma Nihil, Colle Palatino, RomeNot Really Really, Collection Frédéric de Goldschmidt, Bruxelles
2015
La scrittura degli echi, MAXXI, Rome16e Premio Cairo, Palazzo della Permanente, MilanAttorno a una conchiglia vuota, Institut culturel italien, ParisMILKREVOLUTION, American Academy in Rome
2014
Meteorite in giardino, Fondazione Merz, Turin ; Palazzo Riso, Palerme ; Nuovo Spazio di Casso
2013
Il fascino discreto dell’oggetto, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, RomeThe Naturalists, La Foce, Castelluccio di PienzaSletto & Corso, 20e Biennale Sélest’art, Sélestat
2012
Re-Generation, MACRO, RomeSmeared with the Gold of the Opulent Sun, Nomas Foundation, RomeDormitorio pubblico, Campoli Presti, Londres
2011
Voglio soltanto essere amato, MAGA, GallarateWhen in Rome, Institut culturel italien, Los AngelesNever Talk to Strangers, Edel Assanti, Londres
2010
Italian Sculpture of the XXI Century, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, MilanMutiny Seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giuliani, RomeLandscape and People of Sicily, Palazzo Riso, Palerme
2009
Emerging Talents, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, FlorenceThe Sky into a Room, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone
2008
Beware of the Wolf, American Academy in RomeT2, 2e Triennale de Turin, 50 lune di Saturno, Castello di Rivoli
2007
Inscriptions, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Guarene d’AlbaPAN HOST, Palazzo delle Arti, Naples
2006
3500 cm², Assab One, Milan, et American Academy in RomeFondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte, Turin
Public collections5→
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, RomeMACRO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, RomeMagazzino Italian Art, Cold Spring, New YorkBanque centrale européenne, FrancfortCollection de la Région Lombardie, Milan
Private and foundation collections6→
Fondazione Giuliani, RomeNomas Foundation, RomeCollezione Intesa Sanpaolo, TurinCollezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, LuganoCollection Frédéric de Goldschmidt, BruxellesMartin Margulies Collection, Miami
