Massimo Gurnari

Born in Milano in 1981. Currently living and working in Milano.High school diploma from Hajech school in Milano.Enrolled in a painitng course at Brera Accademy 1999. He leaves the course before the dissertation due to the low level of the lecturers and the frustrating atmosphere of the class.In 1995 he starts his painting career in the best possible shool: the street.During this experience he gets in touch with the new pioneers of the "graffiti style" in Italy and he makes his first tag under the nick name of "MICRO".This style is still part of the Gurnari artististic mood.This real street experience and the themes of art history melt together in the Gurnari's work, with a clear POP matrix that mantains a background of "classical sign".Currently Gurnari's inspiration is focused on the contamination from old vintage images of the tatoos designs, furniture design from the 60's and the 70's, scripts and animals...All his work is aimed to create a big box of memorabilia where present and past can co-exists.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009
"KUNSTERROR© - diary of an evil artist", AreaB gallery, Milan
2008
"THE FREAK SHOW - the amazing tattooed man with four arms"
( with El Rana ) Spazioinmostra gallery, Milan
"SORRY MAMA", KGallery, Legnano
2006
CARNE SCELTA, Annovi gallery, Sassuolo
LATTE RINFORZATO, Arte&Altro gallery, Gattinara
MEGA MASS, MaiCollection gallery, Verona
2005
PASTO PROTEICO#1, Obraz gallery, Milan


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
PENSIERO FLUIDO, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
ITALIAN NEWBROW - B SIDE, AreaB gallery, Milan
2009
SERRONE - BIENNALE GIOVANI 2009, Serrone Villa Reale, Monza
PRAGUE BIENNALE 4 ( ITALIAN NEWBROW curated by I. Quaroni ) Karlin Hall, Prague
GROUP SHOW, MF Gallery Genova, Genova
2008
BEATA REMIX, Palazzo D'Avalos, Vasto (Ch)
ARTATHLOS, (XXIX Olympics Games) Haidian Exhibition Center, Beijing
ALLARMI 4, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como
PATTERNS, Sala Civica Radio, Meda
NO SENSE OF SIN, AreaB gallery, Milan
MONEYLISA, Mondo Pop Gallery, Rome
LE INVASIONI BARBARICHE, Studio d'arte Fioretti, Treviolo (BG)
EL MUNDO POP, Mondo Pop Gallery, Rome
2007
OVERVIEW, Centro culturale Fatebenefratelli, Valmadrera (Lc)
SEGNI, Le Case d'Arte San Lorenzo, Milan
A FERRO E FUOCO - lo straor...