Arrigo Musti

Arrigo Musti born in Palermo in 1969. He attended the Faculty of Law in Palermo, where he graduated with the highest honours and became a lawyer and later a teacher of law at senior schools. However, at the age of 28, he felt that his original passion had remained latent and was determined to study, self-taught, painting techniques and human anatomy. He was soon to leave the legal profession.
The “myth” is also the subject of interest of Arrigo Musti.
In various forms the artist back, cyclically, to confront his own cultural classics an Mediterranean roots.
Greek and Roman statues eroded by scratching also for Arrigo metaphorically represent the image of our contemporaneity.
2008 was to be the year in which Arrigo’s work was for the first time to receive international attention.
After a solo exhibition at the Consulate General of the Kingdom of Morocco in Palermo, entitled “Oil and Blood Rain “, which enjoyed unexpected success with the public and media (the exhibition was also visited by the art historian Maurizio Calvesi), on the initiative of a London gallery, Arrigo participated, with some large-scale works, in an international group exhibition at the Hague. Then Christie’s auctioned some paintings by Arrigo. Later Mr. Ser...

graduated in law cum laude

Main group exhibitions
2008
Nutshuis, The Hague (The Netherlands), Red Cross summer exhibition, (Christie’s auction)
Artefact Gallery London (Christie’s auction)
2011
54° Venice Biennial – Venice Arsenal – Italian Pavillon – selected by Oscar Prize director Giuseppe Tornatore 
2012
Bioethics art UNESCO, United Nation Palace N.Y.C.
Cosenza (CS) Museo dei Brettii and Enotri Museum 
Fondazione Orestiadi di Gibellina (TP) Artisti a Gibellina – MIBAC AMACI
Main “solo” exhibitions 
2008
“Oil and blood rain” Palermo, Italy Consulate General of the Kingdom of Morocco 
2009
U.S.A. “Rain” curated by Maurizio Calvesi ed Augusta Monferini 
Dayton International P. Museum
Wright state University (Dayton – Ohio)
Missing Peace art Space (Dayton – Ohio)
2012
“Nameless” curated by Marisa Vescovo
Rome, Montecitorio,  Monumental Complex of Vicolo Valdina, Hall of Deputies  
Palermo, Sant’Elia Palace Foundation and contemporary art museum 
2013
“Drops”
Bagheria (Palermo) Villa Casaurro curated by Lorenzo Canova
2014
“Impop” curated by Lorenzo Canova
Rome, Contemporary Art Museum (Villa Torlonia) curated by Lorenzo Canova 
“Drops” curated by Lorenzo Canova
Castelbuono (Palermo) Civic Museum  
2017
“Far From Myth” 
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