Massimo Bartolini

Born:
1962
Residence:
Cecina, Italy
Nationality:
Italian
Trust:
APT London
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  • Museum Voorlinden, a new private art space, has opened in Wassenaar in the Netherlands with an exhibition of the work of Ellsworth Kelly, which runs through January 8.

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  • The landscape is a recurring theme in the work of Massimo Bartolini: intended as a meditative space, hence of exclusion, and also as the space that...

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  • Large Glass presents ‘Universal Fragments: Conversations with Trevor Shearer’, a group show inspired by the work of Trevor Shearer. Six contemporary

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  • Exhibition preview: Re:new - Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee, August 23 2013 -

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  • Massimo Bartolini (Cecina, IT, 1962) is considered one of the most important Italian ‘sculptors’ of his generation. The work best known to us is his

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  • Let's make some noise! Once again, Marta Herford is tuning in to current trends and tendencies in art, and has realized a unique exhibition about

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  • Large Glass presents ‘Universal Fragments: Conversations with Trevor Shearer’, a group show inspired by the work of Trevor Shearer. Six contemporary

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  • Exhibition preview: Re:new - Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, Dundee, August 23 2013 -

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  • Massimo Bartolini (Cecina, IT, 1962) is considered one of the most important Italian ‘sculptors’ of his generation. The work best known to us is his

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  • In contrast to Massimiliano Gioni's intentionally overwhelming "Encyclopedic Palace," the main exhibition at the Venice Biennale, it is something of

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  • The Japanese port city of Yokohama will host its triennale art event over four months from early August, with artists from around the world exhibiting their works at venues around the city.

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  • About a year ago the artists Massimo Bartolini, Flavio Favelli, Hans Schabus, Marinella Senatore and Zafos Xagoraris, spent the summer in four small

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  • Looking at one of the exhibition themes for the Triennale

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BIOGRAPHY

Massimo Bartolini was born in 1962 in Cecina, Italy, where he continues to live and work. Using various materials and techniques, including sculpture, performance and photography, Bartolini creates evocative spaces and anti-monumental sculptures. These meditative works allow for spatio-temporal encounters, which are more attuned to individual biometric rhythms than to socially conditioned responses. Bartolini’s atmospheric installations often elicit physical reactions that evolve a bodily awareness, stimulating viewers’ imaginative capacity rather than commanding their active participation. Bartolini believes that “art speaks privately to the public: the perfect opposite, that is, of what various disciplines (certainly cinema, certainly TV) do, speaking publicly to the private individual.”

Massimo Bartolini has recently presented solo exhibitions at Magazzino d’ arte Moderna, Rome (2009), Massimo De Carlo, Milan (2008), Frith Street Gallery, London (2008), MAXXI – Museo delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2008), IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK (2007) and GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte moderna e Contemporanea, Turin (2005) in Italy. His work has also been shown as part of the Nordic & Danish Pavillion at the 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice (2009), the XV Quadriennale di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni di Rome (2008), “Mediterranee”, Carre d'Art at the Musee d'Art Contemporain de Nimes, Nimes (2007), “Resonance” at Frith Street Gallery, London (2006), the 2006 Shanghai Biennale, Art 37 Basel, Art in Public Space, Basel (2006) and Manifesta 4, Frankfurt (2002).

Massimo Bartolini is represented by Frith Street Gallery, London, and Gallery Massimo de Carlo, Milan.


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