Michele Rizzi

Michele Rizzi is an Italian artist born in Turin in 1971 (he currently lives near Turin), best known for his sculptures "Condensation and Dispersion of Matter."
Sculptures made of steel, wire, and wire mesh, which emphasize the sense of discontinuity in the material (full and empty spaces).

While sculpture in the past essentially consisted of removing excess material, this type of sculpture involves marking the material at specific points and in carefully measured quantities.
Regarding forms, human figures, organic and plant forms (real, abstract, or fantastical) predominate,
reflecting a wide variety of influences, from ancient Minoan and African art (athletic and slender figures) to sculptures of the last century, to more recent pseudo-alien figures or the humanity of the future.
Incompleteness and gaps are the added value of these works, which give rise to the enduring fascination of ruins and archaeological remains. The artist likes to think of his sculptures as archaeological finds from a distant future, endowed with a dual aesthetic value: archaic and futuristic. Duality and contrast are also present in the themes of his works. This time, the duality is between the micro/interior and the macro/external, between the human bei...

five-year degree in Architecture at the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy
Qualified designer, restoration and landscape designer

Collective exibition "San Benedetto Po" 2007
Personal exibition -Atelier new group. Mantova 2007
Personal exibition- Artheos" 2007
Personal exibition- "Single fin" surf cafè.Andora 2008.
Special award. International sculture simposium. Trucioli d'artista-Rivoli 2009.
Fan Navigli - Milano 2014
Onlus Donne e futuro - Torino 2015
Solo exibition "FUTURE" - Villa Casalegno- Pianezza 12/05/2015
Solo exibition L'Eremo - Cherasco (Cn) 21/05/2016

01/06/2016 Crucified for the new council hall of the municipality of Pianezza: sculpture and painting

from 01/11/2017 to 05/11/2017 "Paratissima 2017" event parallel to "Artissima", the largest and most important contemporary art market in Italy and one of the most important in Europe.

MILANO - "THROUG THE BLACK MIRROR" collective exibition 06/2018

TORINO- "Wecome to the machine" Politecnico di Torino nov-dec 2019

TORINO Italy - Paratissima 2023 EYE CONTACT

2024 Monferrart and exhibition at Monferrato wineries
August 2024 Solo Exibition in Comune di San Giglio (To) Italy

2° Premio Monferrart 2024 20/10/2024

Diffusissima Art Turin 2024
2025 Artaporter colletiva permanente in contemporary art space in center of Turin
ULTRA Contemporary 2025 Palazzo Provana di Collegno Italy




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