Patrizio Di Massimo

  • Selected Exhibitions
    • 2022
      • ‘Kathmandu Triennale 2077′, Kathmandu, Nepal
      • ‘Presentation of contemporary collection’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
    • 2021
      • ‘The Tail end of the Tale’, T293, Rome
      • ‘ITALICS, Panorama’, Procida
      • ‘The Sublime in Nature’, Cork Street, London
      • ‘Close at Hand’, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
    • 2020
      • ‘The Escalator Cycle – Il Ciclo de La Risalita’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
      • ‘Ciò che Vedo, Nuova Figurazione in Italia’, Galleria Civica Trento, Trento
      • ‘Shaking the Habitual’, Duarte Sequeira, Braga
      • ‘Garden of Six Seasons’, ParaSite, Hong Kong
    • 2019
      • Patrizio Di Massimo, KURA at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan (Solo)
      • ‘Über Mauer’, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
      • ‘Guten Morgen, Europa!’, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
    • 2018
      • Nightfalls, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
      • Total Anastrophes, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli
      • Take Me (I’m yours), Villa Medici, Rome
      • Somathetics, Museion, Bolzano
      • Inside Me, ChertLüdde, Berlin
      • EVA International, Ireland Biennale, Limerick
    • 2017
      • Disegni, Artissima, Turin
      • Take Me (I’m yours), Hangar Bicocca, Milan
      • Grim Tales, Cassina Projects, New York
      • ‘Bread and Circuses’, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
      • ‘An ear, severed, listens’, CherLuedde, Berlin
    • 2016
      • ‘Retreat’, Kayu, Bali and Java
      • ‘Artisti per Frescobaldi’, GAM, Milan
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Frieze Art Fair, London
      • ‘Vitrine’, NICC, Brussels
      • ‘Mundus Muliebris’, Cura Basement
      • ‘Domestic Appendices’, T293 Gallery
    • 2015
      • ‘Ennesima’, Triennale Milano
      • Nipson anomemata me monan opsin (Wash the sins not only the face), Monteverdi Gallery (Solo)
      • ‘Prego Signori Si Accomodino’, Casa Studio Scatturin, Venezia
      • ‘I am here but you have gone’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London
      • ‘Natural Beginners’, Nuvolari, Paris
    • 2014
      • ‘Are, Ere, Ire’, T293, Rome (Solo)
      • ‘Don’t you know who I am?’, M HKA, Antwerp
      • ‘Soft Corners Lining White’, Rowing, London (Solo)
      • ‘Camel Blues’, Kinman Gallery, London
      • ‘Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins’, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles
      • ‘Me, Mum, Mister, Mad’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (solo)
    • 2013
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Lezioni d’Italiano’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London (performance)
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo: Inside Me’, Artissima, Present Future, with T293 (Solo)
      • ‘The Lustful Turk’, Gasworks, London (solo)
      • ‘Monologue for two’, Performance, Mdp1, Milan
      • ‘De Puristes et de Fauves’, Shanaynay, Paris
      • ‘It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve’, Para Site, Hong Kong
    • 2012
      • ‘D’Apres Giorgio’, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome
      • ‘Il Turco Lussurioso – The Lustful Turk’, Villa Medici – The Academy of France, Rome (Solo)
      • ‘Voglio Vivere Così – I want to live like this’, T293, Rome (Solo)
      • ‘Una Turandiade Buzziana’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
      • ‘Men amongst the ruins’, TEOR/éTica, San Jose
      • ‘Fuoriclasse’, GAM, Milano
      • ‘La Storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto)’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
      • ‘Maison Opera’, La Commun, Bac Batiment, Geneva
      • ‘Rituals Without Myth’, Royal College of Art, London
      • ‘Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012′, Maxxi, Rome
    • 2011
      • ‘One Caption Hides Another’, Betonsalon, Paris
      • ‘Hantologie des colonies’, Kiasma International, Paris
      • ‘Il Bel Paese dell’Arte’, Gamec, Bergamo
      • ‘Alighiero e Boetti day’, Auditorium RAI, Torino
      • ‘Psychopomp counsel’, De-Ateliers, Amsterdam
      • ‘Tous cannibales’, Mason Rouge, Paris
      • ‘Modus Operandi’, White Fish Tank, Ancona (Solo)
      • ‘Emerging Talents’, Strozzina, Firenze
    • 2010
      • ‘See Reason’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau of Amsterdam
      • ‘More Pricks than Kicks’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
      • ’SI – Sindrome Italiana’, Magasin, Grenoble
      • ‘Let us compare with mythologies’, Witte de With, Rotterdam
      • ‘Low Decò’, FAI Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan
      • ’Patrizio Di Massimo, The Negus said: Give me the lion keep the stele!’, Art 41 Basel, Art Statements, with T293 (Solo)
      • ‘21×21: 21 artisti per il 21° secolo’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin
      • ‘A Performance Cycle’, Nomas Foundation, Rome
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Col sole in fronte’, T293, Naples (Solo)
      • ‘Tutta la memoria del mondo’, Gam, Turin
    • 2009
      • ‘The object of the attack’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
      • ‘Zilkha Auditorium’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Solo)
      • ‘Eppur si muove’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene
      • ‘Degree Show’, Slade School of Art, London
      • ‘Documents’, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Turin
      • ‘Desiring Necessities’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
    • 2008
      • ‘Italian Wave’, Artissima 15, Turin (Solo)
      • ‘The shortest short story ever written…’, FormContent Project Space, London
      • ‘I desired what you were, I need what you are’, Maze Gallery, Turin

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  • Selected Exhibitions
    • 2022
      • ‘Kathmandu Triennale 2077′, Kathmandu, Nepal
      • ‘Presentation of contemporary collection’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
    • 2021
      • ‘The Tail end of the Tale’, T293, Rome
      • ‘ITALICS, Panorama’, Procida
      • ‘The Sublime in Nature’, Cork Street, London
      • ‘Close at Hand’, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
    • 2020
      • ‘The Escalator Cycle – Il Ciclo de La Risalita’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
      • ‘Ciò che Vedo, Nuova Figurazione in Italia’, Galleria Civica Trento, Trento
      • ‘Shaking the Habitual’, Duarte Sequeira, Braga
      • ‘Garden of Six Seasons’, ParaSite, Hong Kong
    • 2019
      • Patrizio Di Massimo, KURA at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan (Solo)
      • ‘Über Mauer’, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
      • ‘Guten Morgen, Europa!’, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
    • 2018
      • Nightfalls, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
      • Total Anastrophes, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli
      • Take Me (I’m yours), Villa Medici, Rome
      • Somathetics, Museion, Bolzano
      • Inside Me, ChertLüdde, Berlin
      • EVA International, Ireland Biennale, Limerick
    • 2017
      • Disegni, Artissima, Turin
      • Take Me (I’m yours), Hangar Bicocca, Milan
      • Grim Tales, Cassina Projects, New York
      • ‘Bread and Circuses’, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
      • ‘An ear, severed, listens’, CherLuedde, Berlin
    • 2016
      • ‘Retreat’, Kayu, Bali and Java
      • ‘Artisti per Frescobaldi’, GAM, Milan
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Frieze Art Fair, London
      • ‘Vitrine’, NICC, Brussels
      • ‘Mundus Muliebris’, Cura Basement
      • ‘Domestic Appendices’, T293 Gallery
    • 2015
      • ‘Ennesima’, Triennale Milano
      • Nipson anomemata me monan opsin (Wash the sins not only the face), Monteverdi Gallery (Solo)
      • ‘Prego Signori Si Accomodino’, Casa Studio Scatturin, Venezia
      • ‘I am here but you have gone’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London
      • ‘Natural Beginners’, Nuvolari, Paris
    • 2014
      • ‘Are, Ere, Ire’, T293, Rome (Solo)
      • ‘Don’t you know who I am?’, M HKA, Antwerp
      • ‘Soft Corners Lining White’, Rowing, London (Solo)
      • ‘Camel Blues’, Kinman Gallery, London
      • ‘Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins’, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles
      • ‘Me, Mum, Mister, Mad’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (solo)
    • 2013
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Lezioni d’Italiano’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London (performance)
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo: Inside Me’, Artissima, Present Future, with T293 (Solo)
      • ‘The Lustful Turk’, Gasworks, London (solo)
      • ‘Monologue for two’, Performance, Mdp1, Milan
      • ‘De Puristes et de Fauves’, Shanaynay, Paris
      • ‘It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve’, Para Site, Hong Kong
    • 2012
      • ‘D’Apres Giorgio’, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome
      • ‘Il Turco Lussurioso – The Lustful Turk’, Villa Medici – The Academy of France, Rome (Solo)
      • ‘Voglio Vivere Così – I want to live like this’, T293, Rome (Solo)
      • ‘Una Turandiade Buzziana’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
      • ‘Men amongst the ruins’, TEOR/éTica, San Jose
      • ‘Fuoriclasse’, GAM, Milano
      • ‘La Storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto)’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
      • ‘Maison Opera’, La Commun, Bac Batiment, Geneva
      • ‘Rituals Without Myth’, Royal College of Art, London
      • ‘Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012′, Maxxi, Rome
    • 2011
      • ‘One Caption Hides Another’, Betonsalon, Paris
      • ‘Hantologie des colonies’, Kiasma International, Paris
      • ‘Il Bel Paese dell’Arte’, Gamec, Bergamo
      • ‘Alighiero e Boetti day’, Auditorium RAI, Torino
      • ‘Psychopomp counsel’, De-Ateliers, Amsterdam
      • ‘Tous cannibales’, Mason Rouge, Paris
      • ‘Modus Operandi’, White Fish Tank, Ancona (Solo)
      • ‘Emerging Talents’, Strozzina, Firenze
    • 2010
      • ‘See Reason’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau of Amsterdam
      • ‘More Pricks than Kicks’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
      • ’SI – Sindrome Italiana’, Magasin, Grenoble
      • ‘Let us compare with mythologies’, Witte de With, Rotterdam
      • ‘Low Decò’, FAI Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan
      • ’Patrizio Di Massimo, The Negus said: Give me the lion keep the stele!’, Art 41 Basel, Art Statements, with T293 (Solo)
      • ‘21×21: 21 artisti per il 21° secolo’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin
      • ‘A Performance Cycle’, Nomas Foundation, Rome
      • ‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Col sole in fronte’, T293, Naples (Solo)
      • ‘Tutta la memoria del mondo’, Gam, Turin
    • 2009
      • ‘The object of the attack’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
      • ‘Zilkha Auditorium’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Solo)
      • ‘Eppur si muove’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene
      • ‘Degree Show’, Slade School of Art, London
      • ‘Documents’, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Turin
      • ‘Desiring Necessities’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
    • 2008
      • ‘Italian Wave’, Artissima 15, Turin (Solo)
      • ‘The shortest short story ever written…’, FormContent Project Space, London
      • ‘I desired what you were, I need what you are’, Maze Gallery, Turin
  • Selected Works
    • 2021
      • Infermento
      • Nicoletta & Giovanni (Li Galli)
      • Sono Sempre Vicino
      • On the Rocks
      • Caro Mondo
      • The Island (Grisaille)
      • Midway Upon the Journey of our Life
      • Monkey Business
      • The Tail End of the Tale
      • Rye Garden Day Nursery
      • Anna
      • Angry Birds
      • A Blue Room
      • The Price of Motherwood
      • Tea Time
      • Pensieri Nefasti
    • 2020
      • The Last Painting of 2020
      • The Risalita Cycle
      • Close at Hand (Daphnis and Chloe after Nicolas Laugier)
      • The Island
      • The Reading (Natalie and Adam)
      • Chat2Me (George and James)
      • Tai in the Studio
      • Mum’s Floral Robe
      • No More Nappies
      • Spilled Milk
      • Flat 2, 164 Peckham Rye (Diana)
      • Untiled (Golden Background)
      • Dead Lovers (After Anonymous)
      • Nicoletta
      • Self-portrait as Rinaldo
      • Untitled (The Ethiopian Leg)
    • 2019
      • Boxing Day
      • Entangled
      • August 15th in the studio (after Hippolyte Flandrin)
      • The Bather (after William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
      • Luna
      • Untitled (Green Triptych)
      • Bauhau
      • Epico Cavalleresco (after Joseph Paul Blanc)
      • Prussian Love
      • Diana (6 months)
      • Self portrait as abstract painter (after Anne Leibovitz)
      • Still Life (after Horst P. Horst)
      • Self-portrait with Boots
      • Influencer on Capital
      • Why Did You Call My Niece Your Niece?
      • Park House’s Kitchen
    • 2018
      • Moths and Ladybirds
      • Flies and Cockroaches
      • Untitled (This painting will crack)
      • I mostri che abbiamo dentro
      • Do it again if you dare, you jerk!!!
      • I promise… I promise… I won’t lie again!!!
      • Say it again… come on, say it!!!
      • Give it back to me!!! You, moron!!!
      • How many times I have to tell you this, ah???
      • Self-portrait in armour (Take me I’m yours)
      • I am magenta
      • I am heraldic
      • I am fullfilled
      • I am abducted
      • I am listening
      • I am count Dracula
      • I am a pink lady
      • I am mad at you
    • 2017
      • Self-portrait as model (Take me I’m yours)
      • The wedding
      • Self-portrait in armour
      • Self-portrait as model
      • The Soprano
      • The Lion Tamer
      • The Nail
      • Shhhhh
      • The Roman Kiss
      • Self Portrait as a Ghost
      • The Batik Dress
      • The Sword Swallower
      • The Pink Candle
    • 2016
      • Perbacco
      • Drag on
      • Selfportrait in armour
      • Fencing naked
      • Sisters in Love
      • The awakening (Judith or Salome)
      • Red, Yellow and Blue
      • Selfportrait with trumpet
      • Ceramic Bags Serie
      • Carmen Mano Series
      • Deductive Inductive
      • Inductive Deductive
      • Rhapsody in the closet
    • 2015
      • PDM
      • The Screen
      • The Milliner
      • The Black Cloud
      • The Japanese Tree
      • Nipson anomemata me monan opsin (Wash the sins not only the face)
      • Saint Peter
      • Saint Valentine
      • Saint Maurice
      • Saint Francis
      • Saint Joan of Arch
      • Saint Patrick
      • Prego Signori
      • Hot Hair Ballons
      • Odor of Sanctity
      • You Have Gone
      • I Am Here
    • 2014
      • Curtain #20 (Are, Ere, Ire)
      • Sleeping
      • Available
      • At the gym
      • At the movies
      • In a meeting
      • Can’t talk
      • Ara, Era, Ira
      • Cosmic Joke
      • Mindfulness of Emotions
      • Stream of Thoughts
      • Ara, Ara, Ara
      • Are
      • Ere
      • Ire
      • Lost in Lust
      • French Kiss
      • The Mistress
      • Moxibustion
      • Soft Corners Lining White
      • Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
      • Curtain #11 (Soft Corners Lining White)
      • Mum
      • Mister
      • Mad
    • 2013
      • Inside Me
      • Cushion no.5 (Ice Frappe)
      • The Lustful Turk (Salon)
      • The Lustful Turk (Bang Bang)
      • Curtain no.10 (Portrait of Emily Barlow)
      • The Lustful Turk (Haberdashery)
      • Cushion no.4 (Portrait of Eli, Sultan of Algeri)
      • Cushion no.3 (Portrait of Eliza)
      • The Lustful Turk (Whip)
      • The Lustful Turk (Fish on a dish)
      • The Lustful Turk (Bracelets)
      • The Lustful Turk (Ercolanum)
      • The Lustful Turk (Legs)
      • The Lustful Turk (Swords)
      • Monologue for two
      • Curtain no.9 (Lust)
      • Curtain no.8 (Love)
    • 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Souvenir) – The Lustful Turk (Souvenir), 2012
      • Sipario n.7 (Ritratto di Alì, Sultano di Algeri) – Curtain n.7 (Portrait of Alì, Sultan of Algeri), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Mamma Li Turchi) – The Lustful Turk (Mum The Turks Are Coming), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Soffio) – The Lustful Turk (Blow), 2012
      • Cuscini n.1 (Ritratto di Emily Barlow) – Cushions n.1 (Portrait of Emily Barlow), 2012
      • Cuscino n.2 (Ritratto di Eliza) – Cushion n.2 (Portrait of Eliza), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Harem) – The Lustful Turk (Harem), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Dittico) – The Lustful Turk (Diptych), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Sipario) – The Lustful Turk (Curtain), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Cuscini) – The Lustful Turk (Cushions), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (La schiava Greca) – The Lustful Turk (The Greek Slave), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (Coucou) – The Lustful Turk (Coucou), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (La stanza blu) – The Lustful Turk (The blue room), 2012
      • Il Turco Lussurioso (la stanza verde) – The Lustful Turk (the green room), 2012
      • Ritratto dell’artista da vecchio – Portrait of the artist as an old man, 2012
      • Sipario n.6 (Ritratto di Amleto) – Curtain n.6 (Portrait of Hamlet), 2012
      • Sipario n.4 e n.5 – Curtain n.4 and n.5, 2012
      • Sipario n.3 (Ritratto di Mattia Pascal) – Curtain n.3 (Portrait of Mattia Pascal), 2012
      • Sipario n.2 (Ritratto di Canio) – Curtain n.2 (Portrait of Canio), 2012
      • Voglio Vivere Così – I want to live this, 2012
      • ‘Portrait of Nicoletta’, 2012
      • Ritratto di Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n. 3,4,5,6,7) – Portrait of Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n. 3,4,5,6,7), 2012
      • Portrait of Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n.2), 2012
    • 2011
      • Una Turandiade Buzziana (in forma di note) – Buzzi’s Turandot (in the shape of notes), 2011
      • Una Turandiade Buzziana (binocoli) – Buzzi’s Turandot (opera glasses), 2011
      • Fuga dal disordine (Vogue Ed.) – Flight from disorder (Vogue Ed.), 2011
      • Ritratto di Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n.1)- Portrait of Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n.1), 2011
      • Untitled (Clouds 2), 2011
      • Pompei – Pompea, 2011
      • Leptis Magna, sono nato qui (Serigrafia) – Leptis Magna, I was born here (Screen print version), 2011
      • Gentiluomini – Gentlemen, 2011
      • Ballando con le stelle – Dancing with the stars, 2011
    • 2010
      • Domatore di leoni – Lion Tamer, 2010
      • Untitled (Purebreed), 2010
      • Il Negus ha detto: “Datemi il leone, tenetevi la stele!” (Testo) – The Negus said: “Give me the lion, keep the stele!” (Text), 2010
      • Il Negus ha detto: “Datemi il leone, tenetevi la stele!” (Disegni) – The Negus said: “Give me the lion, keep the stele!” (Drawings), 2010
      • Fuga dal disordine – Flight from disorder, 2010
      • Ben Bene – God good, 2010
      • Untitled (Throughbred), 2010
      • Faccetta Nera, Faccetta Bianca – Little black face, little white face, 2010
    • 2009
      • Duetto per cannibali – Duet for cannibals, 2009
      • As every artist I am first of all a painter of women, 2009
      • Four men, 2009
      • The secret proceedings in the trial at Benghazi, 15 September 1931, 2009
      • Oae, 2009
      • Ten little niggers, 2009
      • Disegni – Drawings, 2009
    • 2008
      • Leptis Magna, sono nato qui – Leptis Magna, I was born here, 2008
      • Tripolis, 2008
      • Senza Titolo – Untitled, 2008
      • Untitled (Pureblood), 2008
    • 2007
      • Pelo & Contropelo, 2007
      • Untitled (my father emulating me), 2007
    • 2006
      • Succedette a Roma, 2006
  • Selected Press
    • L’Uomo Vogue, October 2017
    • Phaidon Press, Vitamin P3, 2017, p. 182, 183
    • Cura Magazine, Joao Mourao and Luis Silva, ‘Spotlight’, Summer 2014, no. 17, p. 104-115
    • Frieze, Amy Sherlock, ‘Guilty pleasure at home at far away’, June, July, August 2014, Issue no. 164, p. 162-163
    • ArtReview, Jennifer Thatcher, ‘Patrizio Di Massimo, The Lustful Turk’, December 2013, p.126
    • Cookie and Luz, Hendrik Folkters, Inti Guerrero, Alessandro Rabottini, ‘Focus #2: Patrizio Di Massimo’, December 2012
    • MAP Magazine, Geldrand Rebecca, ‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, issue number 24, p 26 – 27
    • Kaleidoscope Magazine, Obrist Ulrich Hans, ‘Mor(t)al landscape’, April – May, 2010, p. 30 – 33
    • Mousse Magazine, ‘Introducing Francesco Arena e Patrizio Di Massimo’, aprile, n. 23, 2010
    • Kaleidoscope, Rabottini Alessandro, ‘An immense bluff, The Italian artist Patrizio Di Massimo journey to Libya’, Summer, 2009, n. 2, p. 126 ‐ 129
    • Flash Art Italia, Ilaria Gianni, ‘Ouverture: Patrizio Di Massimo’, April ‐ May 2009, n. 275
    • Domus Magazine, Albanese Flavio, Mascheroni Loredana, ‘Recto and Verso, Patrizio Di Massimo, giochi di specchi tra passato e futuro’, February, 2009, n. 922
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