MICHELANGELO CONSANI
Livorno 1971, Italy.
He lives and works in Castell’Anselmo (Livorno), Italy.
Education:
1984/89 I.S.A School of Art, Pisa, Italy.
Work collaboration:
1990/2000 Lighting design for Artemide Group, Milano.
Selected catalogues:
2020
Arcadia e Apocalisse: Paesaggi italiani in 150 anni di arte, texts by Paolo Emilio Antognoli, Maria Francesca Bonetti, Daniela Fonti, Alessandro Romanini; Ed. Bandecchi & Vivaldi.
Between the artists involved: Wilhem Von Gloeden, Giacomo Caneva, Giovanni Fattori, Francesco Paolo Michetti, Luigi Gioli, Giacomo Balla, Mario Sironi, Umberto Boccioni, Plinio Nomellini, Gaetano Previati, Leonardo Dudreville, Fortunato Depero, Duilio Cambellotti, Felice Casorati, Ardengo Soffici, Osvaldo Licini, Antonio Donghi, Giorgio Morandi, Carlo Carrà, Lorenzo Viani, Alberto Savinio, Giorgio De Chirico, Afro, Galileo Chini, Luca Maria Patella, Nino Migliori, Mimmo Jodice, Mario Cresci, Luigi Ghirri, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Piero Gilardi, Gabriele Basilico, Ketty La Rocca, Olivio Barbieri, Giuseppe Bartolini, Luigi Ontani, Paolo Scirpa, Gianni Pettena, Superstudio, 9999, Ugo La Pietra, Ettore Sottsass Jr, Michelangelo Pistoletto.
2019
Resistenza/ Resilienza, texts by Enrico Bonanate, Orietta Brombin, Gaia Bindi, Piero Gilardi; Ed. Prinp Editore.
Between the artists involved: Marco Bailone, Gea Casolaro, Leone Contini, Piero Gilardi, Michele Guido, Ugo La Pietra e Gruppo Wurmkos.
2017
Il passo sospeso, Text by Alessandro Romanini, Paolo Bolpagni and Giorgio Fogazzi. ED Fondazione Ragghianti
Between the artists involved: Marina Abramović, Bas Jan Ader, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Enrico Castellani, Sandro Chia, Leone Contini, Gino De Dominicis, Lucio Fontana, Peter Greenaway, Emilio Isgrò, William Kentridge, Joseph Kosuth, Markus Lüpertz, Piero Manzoni, Marisa Merz, Jonathan Monk, Luigi Ontani, ORLAN, Mimmo Paladino, Giulio Paolini, Marc Quinn, Wael Shawky, Santiago Sierra, Giuseppe Uncini, Guido van der Werve, Kan Yasuda.
2016
16a Quadriennale di Roma: Altri tempi altri miti; section De Rerum Rurale, text by Matteo Lucchetti; Ed. Nero.
Between the artists involved: Nico Angiuli, Rossella Biscotti, Beatrice Catanzaro, Leone Contini, Luigi Coppola, Danilo Correale, Adelita Husni-Bey, Marzia Migliora, Moira Ricci, Marinella Senatore.
2017
Il passo sospeso. Esplorazione del limite, texts by Gilberto Bedini, Paolo Bolpagni, Alessandro Romanini; Ed. Fondazione Ragghianti.
Between the artists involved: Marina Abramović, Bas Jan Ader, Alighiero Boetti, Marcel Broodthaers, Leone Contini, Gino De Dominicis, Lucio Fontana, William Kentridge, Joseph Kosuth, Piero Manzoni, Marisa Merz, Jonathan Monk, ORLAN, Marc Quinn Wael Shawky, Santiago Sierra, Giuseppe Uncini, Guido van der Werve, Kan Yasuda.
2015
Something Else – OFF Biennale, texts by Simon Njami, Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Power Enroth, Aura Seikkula, Olaf FekiOrlando, Britto-Jinorio. Ed. Darb 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture.
Between the artists involved: Adel Abidin, Hela Ammar, Joël Andrianomearisoa, Iván Argote, Nabil Boutros, Robert Cahen, Tania Candiani, Carolina Caycedo, Lilibeth Cuenca Rasmussen, Klas Eriksson, Jellel Gasteli, Khaled Hafez, Hsia-Fei Chang, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Rä di Martino, Ari Benjamin Meyers, Marco Montiel- Soto, Carlos Motta, Mwangi Hutter, Moataz Nasr, Eamon Ore-Giron, Georgy Ostretsov, Yazid Oulab, Naufus Ramirez Figueroa, Faisal Samra, Johan, Zetterquist, Zimmerfrei, Amina Zoubir.
2013
Dissentire, text by Alba Braza Boils; Ed. Settore8.
Between the artists involved: Cabello/Carceller, Yaima Carrazana, Fernando Sàncez Castillo, Cristina Lucas.
2010
Aichi Triennale: Art and Cities, texts by Masahiko Haito, Emmanuelle de Montgazon, Jochen Volz, Pier Luigi Tazzi. Ed. Aichi Triennale.
Between the artists involved: Adel Abdessemed, Juan Araujo, Jerom Bel, Chiharu Shiota, Cai Guo-Qiang, Cerith Wyn Evans, Jan Fabre, Tom Friedman, Cyprien Gaillard, Gelitin, Ryoji Ikeda, Amar Kanwar, Sonia Khurana, Jacob Kirkegaard, Lucia Koch, Takehito Koganezawa, Yayoi Kusama, La Ribot, Hans Op de Beeck, Amalia Pica, Navin Rawanchaikul, Shimabuku, Santiago Sierra, Kamen Stoyanov, Sun Yuan + Peng Yu, Tatzu Nishi, Tatiana Trouvé, Franz West, Yang Fudong, Héctor Zamora, Zhang Huan.
Practicing Memory, Text by Matteo Lucchetti. Ed. Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto.
Between the artists involved: Francesco Arena, Rossella Biscotti, Beatrice Catanzaro, Chto Delat, Danilo Correale, Dora Garcia, André Guedes, Shilpa Gupta, Rabih Mroué, Nikolay Oleynikov, Wendelien Van Oldenborgh, Mirko Smerdel, Société Réaliste, Stefanos Tsivopoulos e Vangelis Vlahos
2009
Rites de passage, texts by Richard Jacobs and Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Shunck.
Between the artists involved: Adel Abdessemed, Pawel Althamer, Rineke Dijkstra, Mu Chen & Shao Yinong, Yoshitomo Nara, Giovanni Ozzola, Wael Shawky, Shih Chieh Huang, Société Réaliste, Italo Zuffi.
2007
Suitcase Illuminated Parallel Economies, texts by Katia Anguelova, Alessandra Poggianti; Ed. Lobinski Saloon. Between the artists involved: Meschac Gaba, Cao Guimarães, Gülsün Karamustafa, Surasi Kusolwong, Tadej Pogacar, Oliver Ressler, Kamen Stoyanov, Superflex.
2004
On Air: Video in onda dall’Italia, texts by Ilaria Bonaccossa, Barbara Casavecchia, Cristiana Collu, Milovan Farronato, Andrea Lissoni, Teresa Macrì, Marco Scotini, Andrea Viliani and other. Ed. Silvana Editoriale.
Between the artists involved: Davide Bertocchi, Alex Cecchetti, Paolo Chiasera, Lara Favaretto, Massimo Grimaldi, Deborah Ligorio, Armin Linke, Marcello Maloberti, Eva Marisaldi, Rä di Martino, Fabio Mauri, Marzia Migliora, Adrian Paci, Cesare Pietroiusti, Klaus Pobitzer, Marinella Senatore, Alessandra Spranzi, Nico Vascellari, Sisley Xhafa, Italo Zuffi.
2003
Artkliazma,Text by Patricia Ellis, Jeffrey Deitch and Ekaterina Degot. Ed Wam.
Between the artists involved: Anna Abazieva, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Gustavo Artigas, Vanessa Beecroft, Vladimir Dubossarsky, Oleg Kulig, Jean Lee, Annibal Lopez, Nikolay Oleinikov, David Ter-Oganian.
Monographs:
2021
Attraversò il campo di patate senza farsi alcun male, text by Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. ME Vannucci.
2018
Sculpture, potatoes, lemons, pigs, numbers and white pages…,texts by Michelangelo Consani, Matteo Lucchetti, Pier Luigi Tazzi; self-produced.
2016
Milankyo, text by Matteo Lucchetti; Ed. Prometeo Gallery.
2012
The Caspian Depression. And a One Straw Revolution, texts by Paolo Emilio Antognoli, Serge Latouche, Matteo Lucchetti, Kunstverein Milano, Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Kunstverein (Milan, Amsterdam, New York).
2010
Barter Book, texts by Paolo Emilio Antognoli, Michelangelo Consani, Serge Latouche, Lorenzo Giusti, Marko Stamencovic, Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Piano B.
2008
Skip intro: Michelangelo Consani, texts by Paolo Emilio Antognoli, Anguelova & Poggianti, Marko Stamenkovic, Pier Luigi Tazzi; Ed. Shin Milano.
Biennials, Triennials and Quadrennials:
2016
16° Quadriennale di Roma: Altri tempi, altri miti, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy.
2015
Something Else OFF Biennial Cairo, 1718 Contemporary Art & Culture, Cairo, Egypt.
The Wrong Biennale, Valenzia, Spain.
2012
Dakar Biennal, Institut Français du Sénégal, Dakar, Senegal.
2010
Aichi Triennal: Art and Cities, Aichi Art Center, Nagoya, Japan.
Postmonument: niente da vedere tutto da vivere, XIV° Biennale di Scultura di Carrara,
Carrara, Italy.
2008
Seek Refuge, XI° Biennale D’ Architettura, Ex Ospedale degli incurabili, Venice, Italy.
Progetto Dinamo, Biennale di Fotografia, Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy.
Solo shows:
2021
Attraversò il campo di patate senza farsi alcun male, ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy.
2019
Angeli limoni pappagalli e tartarughe, G21, Livorno, Italy.
Non ho fatto io la sedia il tavolo il foglio la penna con la quale scrivo…, Museo d’inverno, Siena, Italy.
2016
Azione da fermacarte, Pavillon social ~ Kunstverein (PsK), Lucca, Italy.
2015
Le cose potrebbero cambiare, Prometeo Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2014
Nove elefanti bianchi e una patata, Gallery Side2, Tokyo, Japan.
Fellow traveler, Zirkumflex, Berlino, Germany.
Past forward,Glassbox, Paris, France.
2013
Barter: the solar project, Progetto Riva, Ponte Vecchio, Florence, Italy.
False flag, Museo di Lissone, Lissone, Italy.
2012
Wednesdays and Fridays, Casino Luxembourg Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
2011
M.H.G Three Personalities for a New Ecological Memory, Kunstraum Muenchen, München,
Germany.
Ancora Ancora la nave in porto, Camec pianozero, La Spezia, Italy.
The Car is on the Tegetable, Musa Museo Multimediale, Pietrasanta, Italy.
La festa è finita, Sponda/MAMbo, Bologna, Italy.
2010
Dynamo: biciclette contro il black-out, EX3 Contemporary Art Center, Florence, Italy.
2008
Michelangelo Consani and Richard Nonas(double solo show), Casa Eva Menzio, Torino, Italy.
Z4 marginal zone, Villa Ockenburgh, Den Haag, Netherlands.
Quanto può durare un secondo, Nicola Ricci Arte Contemporanea, Pietrasanta, Italy.
Progetto di disperdere energia, White Project, Pescara, Italy.
2005
Anarchica morte di un occidentale, White Project, Pescara, Italy.
2004
Crash Landing, 2wk2, Berlin, Germany.
2002
Light & Building, Frankfurtmesse, Frankfurt, Germany.
1999
Stand Arflex, Salone del Mobile, Milano, Italy.
Selected group shows:
2023
Autoritratto per una collezione, Museo D’inverno, Siena, Italy.
2022
Laboratorio 21, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy.
Systema Naturæ #1, Orto botanico, Caltanisetta, Italy.
Buona fortuna ribelli, Cappella del Ritiro della Sacra Famiglia, Dogliani, Italy
2021
Italia Zokugo, I.I.C Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Breve viaggio nella collezione del Museo, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara,
Italy.
2020
Surroundings, Suburbia/satellite project space, Florence/Barcelona, Italy/Spain.
Arcadia e Apocalisse: Paesaggi italiani in 150 anni di arte, PALP Palazzo Pretorio, Pontedera,
Italy.
Lo spazio e il pensiero, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy.
Reality bites, Fucina d’Arte, Pietrasanta, Italy.
2019
Resistenza/Resilienza, PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Turin, Italy.
Latitudes, Nelson Mandela Square, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Heavenly Creatures, Kunsthalle West Eurocenter Lana, Bolzano, Italy.
Perno2, Castello di Perno, Monforte d’Alba, Italy.
2018
Playbike, collateral even of Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy.
Terra, ME Vannucci, Pistoia, Italy.
Audiovetture, Via Azzo Gardino, Bologna, Italy.
2017
Il passo sospeso. Esplorazione del limite, Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy.
2016
L’edito inedito, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy.
2015
The wall, Assabe One, Milan, Italy.
Capri The Island Of Art, Capri, Italy.
Terranauti, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy.
2014
The Wall: Beyond the Railway, CRAC, Cremona, Italy.
AtWork, guest of Pascale Marthine Tayou, Kunstenfestival Watou, Watou, Belgium.
Conart – Territorios abiertos, mARTadero, Cochambamba, Bolivia.
Il collasso dell’entropia, Museo di Lissone, Lissone, Italy.
2013
In vitro, MAC Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy.
Fuori posto, Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy.
Lettera 27, Donowahi Foundation for Contemporary Art, Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
The Wall: Beyond the Railway, CRAC, Cremona, Italy.
Dissentire, Casa Masaccio Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy.
Past Forward, Chiostro di Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy.
Made in Filandia 2013, Filandia di Pergine Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy.
A story Video Screening, Sponda/Mambo, Bologna, Italy.
Sight, Museo Laboratorio, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy.
Orti dipinti, Firenze, Italy.
Barter the solar project, Pontevecchio, Firenze, Italy
2012
Évolution de l’Art, Frigoriferi Milanesi Centro per L’arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
Anno del drago, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
Minimum, DryPhoto, Prato, Italy.
Click or clash, Galleria Bianconi, Milan, Italy.
MMMMMMMM, Southeritage Foundation, Matera, Italy.
Obbligo di transito, Museo Raffaele de Grada, San Gimigniano, Italy.
Re(x)stence, Chiostro Sant’Agostino, Pietrasanta, Italy.
Carta Bianca, Museo di Villa Croce, Genova, Italy.
On the river, Villa Pacchiani, Santa Croce Sull’Arno, Pisa, Italy.
The wall #5, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
2011
Quattro progetti d’artista, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Milan, Italy.
Made in Filandia 2011, Filandia di Pergine Valdarno, Arezzo, Italy.
The Wall#3, Nosadella2, Bologna, Italy.
Sparta, White Project, Pescara, Italy.
The Wall#2, Reload, Rome, Italy.
Wensdey and Friday, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg.
2010
Practicing Memory, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy.
What’s The matter?, Palazzo della Gran Guardia, Verona, Italy.
The Wall#, Private Flat, Florence, Italy.
2009
Rites de Passage, Shunck, Heerlen, Netherlands.
Splav meduze, Center for Contemporary Art Celje, Celje, Slovenia.
Picnic 3, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy.
Invocare Istanti, DryPhoto Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
Glad to invite you, Mostra D’Oltre Mare, Napoli, Italy.
Loop, NEONcampobase, Bologna, Italy.
Usine de Rève, 26 cc, Rome, Italy.
Espansione (mobile), NEONcampobase, Bologna, Italy.
Comincia adesso, Spazio ventre, Napoli, Italy.
2007
Suitcase Illuminated Parallel Economies:
– Mac/Val – Musee d’Art Contemporain du Val de Marne, Paris, France.
– P74 Center and Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Undeaf Dutch Elettronic Art Festival, The Hangar Space, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
TRA, White project, Pescara, Italy.
Containers project, Fosdinovo, Italy.
2006
Belef Belgrad Summer Festival/On air, Kapetan Misino Zdanje, Belgrade, Serbia.
28° International Festival di Clermont-Ferrand, Short Video Section, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
La necessità di un’isola, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy.
Visione sociale, Casina Pompeiana, Napoli, Italy.
Strade Bianche, Casale Marittimo, Pisa, Italy.
Arte per L’isola, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy.
Stazione Livorno, Fuori Centro, Livorno, Italy.
Arte sociale, Palazzo del consiglio regionale della Campania, Napoli, Italy
2005
New Territories, Special Project for Arco 05, Madrid, Spain.
Mediterraneo, Castello Malaspina, Massa, Italy.
Saund check, Collegio Cairoli, Pavia, Italy.
Fear, Artandgallery, Milan, Italy.
On air: video in onda dall’Italia, c/o careof, Milan, Italy.
Conflitto e conflitti a villa (poco) serena, Villa Serena, Bologna, Italy.
2004
Macrovideoteca, Macro Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy .
Spread in Prato 2004, Dryphoto, Prato, Italy.
On Air, video in onda dall’Italia
– Galleria Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy.
– c/o careof, Milano, Italy.
– Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
Arte per L’isola, Isola Art Center, Milan, Italy.
15 Artisti si confrontano con l’opera di Neruda, Istituto Italo Latino Americano, Rome, Italy.
Viaggio in Italia, Castello Malaspina, Massa, Italy.
Collezione permanente, Museo Sperimentale di Città S.Angelo, Pescara, Italy.
Con coraggio e deduzione, Officina Giovani Ex Macelli, Prato, Italy.
2003
Artkliazma: Festival of Contemporary Art, various locations, Moscow, Russia.
Controlled Revolution, Vecchio Ospedale Soave, Codogno, Italy.
Fruit of the loop, Musei Civici di Imola, Imola, Italy.
The video game, Galleria Pianissimo, Milan, Italy.
Godart 2003, Museo Sperimentale di Città S.Angelo, Pescara, Italy.
2002
Hic Sunt Romantic Leones, Desart, Brescia, Italy.
Un giorno, Bottini dell’olio, Livorno, Italy.
2001
Il senso e la misura, Centro D’Arte Visiva Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy.
Godart, Museo Sperimentale di Città S.Angelo, Pescara, Italy.
Presence, Pinacoteca Comunale di Volterra, Volterra, Italy.
Tivoli e L’Aniene, Chiesa SS.Annunziata, Tivoli, Italy.
2000
Lo scandalo dello spirito, MUSPAC Museo Sperimentale dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy.
Cre-azione, Antico Teatro di Fermo, Fermo, Italy.
Ultrascultura, Centro D’Arte Visiva Pescheria, Pesaro, Italy.
Performance:
2014
Wiki mon amour, Ring festival, Palazzo Ducale, Lucca, Italy.
2009
Il maestro è nell’anima e dentro l’anima per sempre resterà, Music Center, Heerlen, Netherlands
2003
Io non sono cattivo, performance in collaboration with Emilio Prini, Arte all’Arte VIII, Associazione Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
2002
Io non sono povero: on Mario Merz, performance, Arte all’Arte VII, Associazione Arte Continua, San Gimignano, Italy.
Selected participations, lectures and workshops:
2022
Dal grado zero della critica alla crisi della curatela, lecture, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.
2016
Fibrillazioni tra arte e politica: Michelangelo Consani and Alberto Garutti, lecture , Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy.
2015
Forum dell’arte contemporanea italiana, lecture, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
Miss Read 2015, presentation The Caspian Depression book, Berlin, Germany.
2012
Printed Matter Inc., presentation of the book The Caspian Depression, MoMA PS1, New York, U.S.A.
Talk of presentation The Caspian Depression book, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Milan, Italy.
2011
Solar Cooking, Kunstraum München, München, Germany.
The Solar Project, PAV Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy.
2009
Solar Cooking Project, lecture in the context of the group show Green Platform, CCC.
Strozzina, Centro Cultura Contemporanea Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.
Beat on the brat, lecture, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy.
2007
Barter Project, workshop, The Hangar Space, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Public collections:
Aichi Art Center, Nagoya, Japan.
Kunstraum München, München, Germany.
Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
MUSPAC, L’aquila, Italy.
Museo Laboratorio, Pescara, Italy.
Musei Senesi, Siena, Italy.
Shoes Or No Shoes Museum, Kruishoutem, Belgium.