Maxi Mv

I was born in 1974 in Varese where i live and work. After a degree in Natural Sciences from the State University in Milan, my relationship with the landscape continued, examining it with a naturalist’s sensitivity and an artist’s eye. Working with oil on canvas, periods of work started that were first dedicated to landscape. i then began still-life painting to study volumes so as to get to my favourite subject: human figure.
My bodies are painted sitting or laying on the floor, in a private and silent expectation, in old interiors that show an old decadent beauty, full of wrinkles, holes, different textures and colours just like everybody's life. Detail after detail you can easily become part of the scene, and imagine the state of mind of the subject. There’s often a contrast between old walls and young bodies, but after a while in that apparent contrast you can detect a relationship full of life and truth: walls and subject are deeply connected, they’re sympathetically feeling the same moment:
carpe diem.

degree in Natural Sciences from the State University in Milan
self-taught artist, i am inspired by Vermeer, Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Lucien Freud and Jenny Saville.

2019 Paratissima art fair, Turin. Italy

(landscape and still-life exhibitions)

2018 “Massimo Villa” San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia.
2016 “Massimo Villa” Galleria Ortarte, Orta San Giulio (Novara).
2011 “Massimo Villa” San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia.
2010 “doni inattesi” Duetart Gallery, Varese.
2009 “Massimo Villa” San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia.
2008 “Massimo Villa” Museo Civico di Lentate sul Seveso, Lentate sul Seveso, Milano.
2006 “passaggio naturale” Galleria Artequadri, Cosenza.
2005 “storie di alberi, storie di neve” San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia.
2002 “stagioni di emozione” Galleria Bonaparte, Milano.
Mostre collettive:
2014 “studi aperti” Palazzo Tornielli, Ameno (Novara).
2012 “in and out of focus” Duet gallery, Varese.
2011 “l’Insubria parla con l’arte” Chiostro di S.Abbondio, Como.
2007 “tra neorealismo e iperrealismo” Galleria Ortarte, Novara.
2004 Circolo degli Artisti, Villa Recalcati, Varese. Circolo degli Artisti, Municipio di
Gemonio, Varese
2003 Circolo degli Artisti, Società Sogeiva, Lonate Pozzolo, Varese. Circolo degli Artisti, Sala
Veratti, Varese. Finalista concorso di pittura, On the Road Art Gallery, Gallarate, Varese.
2002 “cinque volte paesaggio lombardo” On the Road ...