Lugano
Alessandro Piangiamore is an Italian artist born in 1976 in Enna. His artistic practice has gained recognition in the contemporary art scene for its poetic and disorienting approach, which weaves together materials, gestures, and impressions drawn from the natural and everyday world.
His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy and internationally. Among his most significant solo shows are: Frangiflutti (2022), Magazzino, Rome; Qualche uccello si perde nel cielo (2021), Litografia Bulla, Rome; Il silenzio non m’inganna (2020), Siegfried Contemporary, London; La Chair des choses (Dans la poussière, les abeilles et le pétrole font la lumière) (2018), Centre d’art contemporain La Halle des bouchers, Vienne; La Chair des choses (Une Rose et quatre vents) (2018), Espace arts plastiques Madeleine-Lambert, Vénissieux; Marango (2018), Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York, in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art; Primavera Piangiamore (2014), Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Tutto il vento che c’è (2013), Galleria Civica Giovanni Segantini, Arco (Trento), in collaboration with the Museo dell’Alto Garda (Riva del Garda) and MART, Rovereto.
His participation in important group exhibitions further highlights the relevance of his artistic trajectory. Recent group shows include: Le tentazioni di Apollo (2024), PRAC – Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea; Viaggio in Italia XXI (2022), Museo Casa di Goethe, Rome; Le songe d’Ulysse (2022), Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles; Camera Picta (2021), Galleria Civica, Trento; Nature is what we see (2019), Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati Collection, Lugano; Luogo e Segni (2019), Punta della Dogana, Venice; Time is Out of Joint (2016), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome; Meteorite in giardino (2014), Fondazione Merz, Turin; Re-Generation (2012), MACRO, Rome; and Torino Triennale T2 (2008), Castello di Rivoli.
Over the course of his career, Piangiamore has received several prestigious awards, including the Premio Cairo in 2015 and the Global Art Programme at Khoj Studios, New Delhi, in 2010. His work continues to resonate on the international stage, establishing him as one of the most compelling figures in contemporary art today.
Piangiamore’s poetics are marked by a “restorative” dimension of art. In his work, imagination functions as a tool of detour and suspension—a way to interrupt the overwhelming flow of stimuli that undermines our capacity for attention and analysis. What makes his research distinctive is its focus not on a preformed or idealized imaginary, but on the natural, the ordinary, and the contingent—elements we encounter every day—transformed into forms that subvert habitual perception.
Alessandro Piangiamore lives and works in Rome.
