Massimo Pianese

Massimo Pianese (Naples 1979) graduated in Sculpture at the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples. Since 1999 he has been present to numerous group shows in Italy and abroad. He usually works using video, photography, installation, painting and cross media. He’s been worked as Gian Marco Montesano's assistant from 2003 to 2018. Since 2019 he's been producing a part of Mark Kostabi's paintings.

ARTIST STATEMENT: A text written by Carla Subrizi for the catalogue “Interplay-Premio Termoli 2009” i

“... The videos of Massimo Pianese always show us a real amended, through the manipulation of the images or with the choice of specific points of view, very close or very far away from the subject. Pianese works in the margins of the real. He focuses his videos on current issues: the environment and its crisis, the relationship between the tradition and the extinction of ecosystems, stories of special characters or of restricted crowds of people, whose actions are registered slowly. It seems that nothing happens in these video: however imperceptibly things are transformed. The time of video is almost a real time following scenes apparently fixed. This is the most interesting aspect of his research: the almost nothing, the detail, a scene in which...

MA Sculpture Academy of Fine Arts, Napoli - Italy

Selected Shows:
> 2014: Premio Terna 06, Archivio di Stato, Turin.
> 2013: Planet Mensch - Kunst und Wissenschaft am Beginn des Anthropozäns, Eres Stiftung, Munich.
> 2012: Change-Course Conference (The Club of Rome), Retrospective of Massimo Pianese, Theater of Winterthur, Switzerland.
> 2012: YOU ARE NOT A SALMON - Kaffeesatz, Villa Sträuli, Winterthur, Switzerland.
> 2012: YOU ARE NOT A SALMON, Placentia Arte Gallery, Piacenza.
> 2009: Sight09/10, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo.
> 2009: Premio Termoli 2009, Civic Contemporary Art Gallery, Termoli.
> 2009: Incontri Imprevisti (ovvero, metti una sera d’estate), Siniscalco Arte, Milan.
> 2009: Video.it, Merz Foundation, Turin.
> 2009: 2 anni 2video, neon>campobase, Bologna.
> 2008: 200 artisti per Careof, Fabbrica del Vapore – DOCVA, Milan.
> 2008: Loading, Castello Baronale, Acerra.
> 2008: Articorte, Musae, Villa Sissi, Levico Terme.
> 2008: Mettete dei video nei vostri cannoni / Giunglavideo, Parco di Villa di Toppo Florio, Buttrio.
> 2008: Fruits in season, Annarumma404 Gallery, Naples.
> 2007: New Entry, C/O care of – Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan.
> 2007: Musae, Lago Maggiore circuit, Stresa, Verbania.
> 2007: Trasparent, The Granary, Fiskars, Finland.
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