Luigi Menichelli

... Murmurs of life crystallized in eternal matter. Menichelli is an obsessive picker, often walking with an eye to the ground; the attraction is a strong force like a magnet - perceives, selects, collects, elaborates, manipulates, stratifies. Each work requires a long and meticulous process, that conveys a single reality into the rebirth of the whole. One block consists of many heterogeneously harmonized elements. He lays the leaves one at a time, one above the other, side by side, one around the other, one against another, without smothering any of them, and he makes them dialogue through a ritual and patient gesture. Twigs, buds and small breaths are added and overlapped in a delicate synergy establishing amazing three-dimensional structures, graceful and unbreakable beds at once. A development constituted of individuality dipped in varnish, he let them dry, re-shaped them, then dipped them in color. A bright renewed vitality without losing anything of their history. ... (from Into the Woods, text by Gaia Conti).
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... Soffi di vita cristallizzati in materia eterna. Menichelli è un raccoglitore compulsivo, cammina spesso con lo sguardo rivolto al suolo; l’attrazione è una forza intensa come un magnete – scorge, seleziona, coll...

Liceo Artistico statale Ripetta ROMA
Accademia di belle Arti ROMA

Selected Solo Shows

2017 Latina (Italy) - Romberg contemporary art “Into the woods” curated by Italo Bergantini and Gaia Conti
2013 Latina (Italy) - Romberg contemporary art “Leaves of grass” curated by Italo Bergantini
2005 Roma (Italy) - Galleria Salon Privé “Come Le Foglie“ curated by Agnieszka Zakrzewicz and Sergio Rispoli

Selected Group exhibitions

2017 Ptuj (Slovenia) – Art Stays 15th Festival of Contemporary Art “Canone Inverso / Inverse Canon” curated by Italo Bergantini and Gaia Conti
2016 Latina (Italy) – Romberg contemporary art “Scaccomatto in otto mosse” curated by Italo Bergantini and Gaia Conti
2015 Verona (Italy) – Art Verona Contemporary Art Fair, with Romberg Contemporary Art
2014 Latina (Italy) – Romberg contemporary art “Paesaggi di Magazzino” curated by Italo Bergantini and Gianluca Marziani
2014 Brussels (Belgium) – OFF Brussels Contemporary Art Fair, with Romberg Contemporary Art
2014 Bergamo (Italy) – BAF Contemporary Art Fair, with Romberg Contemporary Art
2010 London – Cript St Pancras Church “Caged Bird Sings“ curated by Kate Weir, Silvia Caso and Dinea Smith.