Michele Dolz

I was born in Castellon, Spain, in 1954 and live in Italy since 1976. Art historian, I'm a professor at the University of the Holy Cross in Rome.
As an artist, I tried to develop a contemplative painting through a conceptual approach to
color and shape. Currently I life and work in Milan.
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I grew up with a pencil in hand. I drew everything, copied everything. I learned how to make papier-mâché and shaped my own puppets. In college I met artsy and protesters along with some true artist. I did not attend the Art School. Two university degrees and a doctorate in History of Art could be enough. However I was apprenticed to the Spanish painter Salvador Perez, who taught me a painting on the border with lyric poetry.
The landscape has been my obsession for years. I defined myself contemplative of nature and outside that vision everything seemed to me bizarre and rarefied. One day I discovered that I was actually exploring the human soul. The landscape had become a symbolic code for what in truth I investigated. So I raised my moorings and built a poetic late pop landscapes with large fields of bright colors. The exhibition of 1999 at the Museum of St. Ambrose in Milan was a great success, but I becam...

Ph.D.History of Art

2018 "Ecce Homo II", The National Exemplar Gallery, New York
2018 "De la tierra", Les Aules, Castellon, Spain
2017 "How Deep is The Ocean", La Pigna Gallery, Rome
2015 «Creatures», Ostrakon Gallery, Milan
2014 «Living Fossils», Bocconi University, Milan
2012 «Notte oscura», Altermaria, Milan
2008 «Silenzi», Spazio Arte, Mergozzo.
1999 Group exhibition «Una cartolina per il giubileo», Famiglia Artistica Milanese, Milan
1999 Group exhibition «Vieni Spirito Creatore», Famiglia Artistica Milanese, Milan
1998 «Opere 1997-1998», Museo di Sant’Ambrogio, Antico Oratorio della Passione, Milan
1997 «Mediterraneo», La Alqueria, Castellón, Spain
1996 «Galway Bay», Gort Ard University Residence, Galway, Ireland
1995 «Paesaggi», Faes, Milan