Maurizio Vetrugno (biography)

MAURIZIO VETRUGNO

Sant’Antonio di Susa, 1957. Lives and works between Turin and Bali

Selected works
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EDUCATION

DAMS, Bologne, Italy

 

SELECTED PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS 

 

2021           Degree of Reality, Galleria Martina Simeti, Milan, Italy

2017           Scagliando Si Impara (Poems 76/79 and Costume Punk Percussion), Guido Costa Projects, Turin, Italy

2016           The Post-Nostalgic Modernist, Artissima, Photo & CO. Gallery, Turin, Italy

2015           The Opium Den, Special Project: The Guest Lounge, curated for Artissima Art Fair, in collaboration with
                   Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Oval  Lingotto, Turin, Italy

2012           Love, Commas and Asterisks, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, USA

2011           Lead Baloon, Chiesa della Maddalena, Alba, Italy

                   Meteorite in Giardino, curated by Maria Centonze and Willy Merz, Fondazione Merz, Torino, Italy

2008           Les Paramours, Photo & Co, Turin, Italy

2007           Days of Future Past, curated by Olga Gambari, Accademia delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy

2005           Saints and Sinners, Carbone.to, Turin, Italy

2003           Sound Threads, Carbone.to, Torino Part False Part True, MinGusto, Marrakech, Morocco

2002           The Shitinous Ensemble, Neon Project Box, Milan, Italy

2001           Part False Part True, Like Anything, Galleria San Filippo, Turin, Italy

1999           Between the Buttons, Carbone.to, Turin, Italy

                   La grande acqua, Arcate dei Murazzi, Turin, Italy

                   Qi, Galleria Neon, Bologna, Italy

1996           Electricity Comes from Other Planets, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte, Arcate dei Murazzi,  Turin, Italy

                   Crickets, Galleria The Box, Torino. Italy

                   Wear me, Theoretical Events, Napoli. Italy

                   One Man Show, Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Roma, Italy

 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

 

2022          Wild Life Wild Heat, project curated by Camilla Mozzato for Pitti Immagine Filati, in collaboration with Fondazione Pitti Discovery                         and Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Florence, Italy

2014           The Emperor’s New Clothes, Costume Art Direction  in Charles Ray’s Project for The Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art,                      Los Angeles/ Athens, 2013 presented at DESTEFOUNDATIONCOLLECTION: 1 to 8, Benaki Museum Pireos, Athens, Greece

2013           Abc, curated by Peter Nagy, Nature Morte Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

 

2020           Quadriennale d’arte 2020 FUORI, curated by Sarah Cosulich Canarutto and Stefano Colicelli Cagol, Palazzo delle Esposizioni,                                 Rome, Italy

2019           Notti Magiche, Arte italiani novanta dalla collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto
                   Re Rebaudengo, curated by Irene Calderoni, Turin, Italy

                   Revolutions 1989-2019, curated by Luca Beatrice, Castel Sismondo, Rimini, Italy

2017           Ritrattare, curated by Gino Gianuizzi, L’Entrepot, Principato di Monaco

2016           Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog 1985-95, curated by Gino Gianuizzi, Danilo Montanari, Fabric Arte,  Rimini, Italy

2015           Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue 20 Years, Fondazione Sandretto Re
                   Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

                   Liberi Tutti! Arte e Società Italiana 1989-2001, curated  by Luca Beatrice, Andrea Busto, Cristiana Perrella, MEF, Museo Ettore Fico,                     Turin, Italy

                   Shit and Die, curated by Maurizo Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah and Marta Papini, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy

                   Portable, Biasa Art Space, Bali, Indonesia

                   Preziosa Opera, curated by Domenico Maria Papa, Villa Scalcabarozzi, Valenza

2013           Emphatism, Studio 522, New York, USA

                   Pesca alla Trota in America, curated by Guido Costa and Maurizio Vetrugno , Guido Costa  Project Torino, Italy

                   Poses and Views, Nature Morte Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2012           Il Perturbante, Guido Costa Project, Torino, Italy

2011           ‘Lead Baloon’ per Meteorite in Giardino, Fondazione, Torino, Italy

                   ‘What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding?’,  Rossi & Rossi Contemporary, London, UK

2009           Relax The Brain, Nature Morte Berlin curated by Peter Nagy, Berlin, Germany

                   Id #1 Biasa Art Space, Bali, Indonesia

                   Id #2 Biasa Art Space, Bali, Indonesia

2008           Neti Neti, curated by Peter Nagy, Bose Pacia, New York, NY, USA

                   Aditya Pande, Alexis Kersey and Maurizio Vetrugno, Alexia Goethe Gallery, London, UK (in collaboration  with Nature Morte Gallery)                     New Delhi, India

                   Questo Mondo E’ Fantastico, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy

                   Nature Morte Gallery, Nature Morte, New Delhi, India

2006           Sound and Vision, Palazzo delle Penne, curated by Luca Beatrice, Perugia, Italy

                   ManifesTO, Opere d’arte per lo spazio pubblico, curated by di Riccardo Passoni, GAM and Comune di Torino, Turin, Italy

2005           Aperto per Lavori in Corso, curated by Francesca Pasini, PAC, Milan, Italy

2003           Il racconto del filo. Ricamo e cucito nell’arte contemporanea, curated by Giorgio Verzotti e Francesca Pasini, MART, Museo d’Arte                           Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

                   Melting Pop, curated by Gianluca Marziani, Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

                   Play, Guido Costa Project, Turin, Italy

2001           Le Forme della Luce, curated by Ludovico Pratesi, Centrale A. Volta, Montalto di Castro

1994           Soggetto Soggetto, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, curated by Giorgio Verzotti and Francesca Pasini, Turin,                       Italy