Michele Rizzi

Michele Rizzi is an Italian artist born in Turin in 1971 (he currently lives near Turin Italy) best known for sculptures "Condensation and dispersion of matter."
Sculptures made with steel, wire and iron mesh, which enhance the feeling of discontinuity of matter (solids and voids).
Named by critics M.Tissot and J. Pincemaille among the exponents of "RUST ART" , an artistic movement derived from "ARTE POVERA",with important artists.
If the sculpture of the past was essentially remove excess material, this kind of sculpture is to score the material at the points established and well-measured quantity.
Regarding the forms, are prevalent human figures, organic and vegetal figures (real, abstract or fantasy).
who suffer from the most different influences ranging from the ancient Minoan art and African (athletic and Thin figures) to the sculptures of the last century by A. Giacometti to the latest figures pseudo alien or humanity of the future.
The incompleteness and deficiencies are the added value of these jobs from which flows the perpetual fascination of the ruins and archaeological remains. The artist likes to think of the sculptures as in archaeological findings received from the distant futureand therefore at the same time have a ...

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



Collections: private and public collection around the world

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