Massimo Villa

Massimo Villa was born in 1974 in Varese where he lives and works. After his Natural Sciences degree from the State University in Milan, his 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 dedicated to Lake Varese and woods in Varese Province. In 2008, he began painting his first still lifes.

There is an attentive love that is present in the way that Massimo Villa observes and lightly touches the subjects he depicts on canvas.
Every detail is painted by an expert and tireless hand, every vein of a leaf is reproduced just one step short of hyperrealism, every single irregularity that makes a piece of fruit unique is depicted with the virtuoso precision of a 17th-century artist and, at the same time, with the austerity of a conceptual artist in a curious game of opposites and contrasts.
From his search for structured beauty, which is made up of a delicate balance between light and shade, objects and colours, tiny monuments, apparently detached from time, emerge. The fruit throbs with latent vitality, and the magic, inescapable light that bathes the scene contributes to orchestrating an atmosphere of fatal...

degree in Natural Sciences
Università Statale di Milano (Italy)

2018 “Massimo Villa” (one man show) San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia.
2016 “Massimo Villa” (one man show) Galleria Ortarte, Orta San Giulio (Novara).
2014 “Studi Aperti” Palazzo Tornielli, Ameno (Novara)
2012 “in and out of focus” Duet gallery, Varese
2011 “Villa e Savinelli” (two men show) San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia
“l’Insubria parla con l’arte” Chiostro di S.Abbondio, Como
2010 “doni inattesi” (one man show) Duetart Gallery, Varese
2009 “Massimo Villa” (one man show) San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia
2008 “Massimo Villa” (one man show) Museo Civico di Lentate sul Seveso, Lentate sul Seveso, Milano
2007 “tra neorealismo e iperrealismo” Galleria Ortarte, Novara
2006 “passaggio naturale” (one man show) Galleria Artequadri, Cosenza
2005 “storie di alberi, storie di neve” (one man show) San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venezia
2004 “Circolo degli Artisti” Villa Recalcati, Varese
“Circolo degli Artisti” Palazzo del Comune 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 “stagioni di emozione” (one man show) Galleria Bon...