Magazzino is happy to announce Frangiflutti, the fourth solo exhibition by Alessandro Piangiamore at the gallery. The exhibition follows Quaranta (2016), Testimone di fatti ordinari (2011) and Una questione privata (2007), and features new works realized for the occasion.
The title Frangiflutti (Italian for Breakwater) is clearly adherent to Piangiamore’s poetic, ever oriented in a “reparatory” function of arts, some sort of non-defensive escapism, an evasion (or a filter) from the constant flux of images that the information age feeds us. On the other hand, Piangiamore reaffirms, in his work, the power of imagination as such, its ability to stop, to deviate, to stem the river of stimulations that erode our capacity of analysis. It is interesting how, in his research, the artist does not draw from a proper form of imagery but rather, directs his glance on the natural, quotidian and contingent world, that is, to something we constantly have in front of our eyes, and then re-elaborate it into forms that overturn its perception.
Alessandro Piangiamore was born in Enna nel 1976. He lives and works in Rome. His keynote exhbitions include the solo shows Marango, organized by Magazzino Italian Art, New York in 2018, La Chair des Choses (Une rose et quatre vents), Espace d’Arts Plastiques Madeleine Lambert, Venissieux (2018), and La Chair des Choses (Dans la poussiere, les abeilles et le petrole font la lumiere), Centre d’Art Contemporain La Halle Des Bouchers, Vienne (2018), Quaranta, Magazzino, Rome 2016, Primavera Piangiamore at Palais de Tokyo in 2014, Tutto il Vento che c’è at Galleria Civica Segantini di Arco (TN) in 2013 and at GAMEC di Bergamo nel 2011. Among his group shows, Le Songe D’Ulysse, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles (2022), What’s New?, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano (2020), Luogo e Segni, Pinault Collection – Punta della Dogana (2019), Da io a noi, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome 2017, Time is out of joint, , La Galleria Nazionale, Rome (2017), The Lasting, La Galleria Nazionale, Roma 2016; Not really really, Frédéric de Goldschmidt collection, Brussels (2016), Par Tibi Roma Nihil, NOMAS Foundation, Roma 2016; Meteorite in Giardino, Fondazione Merz, Torino 2014; Sletto e Corso, XXI Biennal de Selestat, Francia 2013; ReGeneration, Macro, Roma 2012; Mutiny Seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma 2010; Le 50 Lune di Saturno, Triennale di Torino 2008. In 2015, he won the 16th edition of the Premio Cairo per l’arte italiana. His works are included in several private and public collection such as: Magazzino Italian Art, New York, Martin Margulies Collection, Miami, Frédéric de Goldschmidt Collection, Bruxelles, Collezione Giancarlo and Danna Olgiati, Lugano, European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma, Museo Macro, Roma, Collezione Intesa Sanpaolo, Torino, Nomas Foundation, Roma, Fondazione Giuliani, Roma, Regione Lombardia (Italy), Urbano Cairo, Milano.

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