Nicola Bertellotti

Nicola Bertellotti lives in Pietrasanta (Italy) and travels the world trying to rediscover the past glory of forgotten places. He has exhibited in various contemporary art galleries and museums; among the main exhibitions: "Hic sunt dracones", Castel dell'Ovo, Naples; "The Great Beauty", Pärnu Museum, Estonia; "Paradiso Perduto", Estella Gallery, New Orleans. In 2021 he is on the official program of the Brescia Photo Festival with "Sipario", a project on the abandonment of places of culture. In 2022 he won the Trento Art Prize and the Gold Plate for photography at the prestigious Arte Prize. In 2023 he won the first prize of the AIPAI Photo Contest with a series dedicated to industrial archeology and was a guest of the Camogli Communication Festival with the conference "La polvere del mondo". He has published two books: "Fenomenologia della fine" (Petrartedizioni, 2014) and "In Absentia" (Snap Collective publishing, 2022). His works are present in various public and private collections and have appeared in various magazines, including: Esquire, Arte, Artedossier, Elle Decor, Lampoon, Bild, Daily Mail, Milieu Magazine, Nuvo, D-Repubblica, Corriere della sera , Marie Claire Maison, Dentro Casa.

Solo Exhibitions

2024
DOVE VA IL TEMPO CHE PASSA ? - Sensi Arte Galleria, Siena
ORA CHE CAPOVOLA È LA CLESSIDRA - Spazio Arte BVLG, Pietrasanta (LU)
2023
POESIA DELL'INTERVALLO - Palazzo Mattei Baldini, Pergola (PU)
2022
IL BOSCO IN UNA SERRA - Sensi Arte Galleria, Colle di Val d'Elsa (SI)
2021
SIPARIO - Fondazione Vittorio Leonesio (Brescia Photo Festival), Puegnago sul Garda (BS)
PARADISO PERDUTO : The beauty of imperfection - Estella Gallery, New Orleans (USA)
2019
THE GREAT BEAUTY - Pärnu Museum,  Pärnu (ESTONIA)
2018
MNEMOSINE - Chiesa di Santa Marina, Novafeltria (RN)
2017
AFTERMATH - Iscuplture Gallery, San Gimignano (SI)
HEIMAT - Galleria Ponzetta, Pietrasanta (LU)
2016
NICOLA BERTELLOTTI - Centro culturale Altinate/San Gaetano  (Future Vintage Festival), Padova
HIC SUNT DRACONES - Castel dell'Ovo, Napoli
2015
IL LUNGO ADDIO - Spazio espositivo #091lab, Palermo
2014
DAMNATIO MEMORIAE - Museo del tessile (Festival Fotografico Europeo), Busto Arsizio (VA)
FOCUS ON - Sensi Arte Galleria, Colle di Val d'Elsa (SI)
FENOMENOLOGIA DELLA FINE - Spazio espositivo Sopra le logge, Pisa
2013
FENOMENOLOGIA DELLA FINE - Galleria Petrartedizioni, Pietrasanta (LU)

Group Exhibitions

2024
AIPAI PHOTO EXHIBITION - Musil, Brescia
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