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Gilberto Zorio

1944
Andomo Micca, Italy

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Works by Gilberto Zorio

Stella Africa

1983

, Mixed Media

160 x 84cm

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Born on September 21, 1944, in Andomo Micca, Italy.

He entered Turin’s Accademia di Belle Arti in 1963 to study painting. However, he soon moved on to sculpture and had his first solo show of three-dimensional works in 1967 at the Galleria Sperone, Turin. Associated with the revolutionary Arte Povera [more] movement, Zorio exhibited in a number of the defining group shows of Arte Povera in 1967 and 1968. He was included in a group exhibition, Nine Young Artists: Theodoron Awards, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 1969. Around this time, Zorio embarked upon a series dealing with language, Per purificare le parole, a theme he would investigate through the early 1980s. In 1970, Zorio graduated from the Accademia and, in 1971, he began teaching at the Liceo Artistico, Turin.

Zorio’s work emphasizes process and alchemy, exploring transformative natural phenomena like evaporation or oxidation and the effects wrought upon materials by these chemical interventions. He has always been preoccupied with the idea of energy. This focus led him to examine the properties of electricity, incorporating a lamp or incandescent tubes in some pieces. In other works, he adopted star and javelin forms—both archetypal constructs intimating energy. Zorio frequently employs fragile materials in his sculpture, creating giant stars from terra-cotta or perching Pyrex alembics containing liquid solutions upon slender steel javelins. He tends to suspend or balance these components in purposely precarious installations, suggesting the tensions and transience of the physical realm.

In 1976, the Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, recognized Zorio with a significant exhibition. A mid-career retrospective of the artist’s work followed at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1979. A monograph on Zorio was published in Italian in 1982. By 1984, he had started another series utilizing a primeval form, that of the canoe, which he made from assorted materials such as pitch or steel. The canoe, along with the star and javelin, became a recurrent motif in Zorio’s oeuvre. In 1985, the Kunstverein, Stuttgart, organized a major retrospective, which traveled in 1986 to the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; and Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. In 1992, an exhibition took place at the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy. Zorio lives in Turin.Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and in 1985 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In the 1980s, Turrell created dark pieces in which light is reduced to barely perceptible levels. The artist lives in Flagstaff, Arizona, and Inishkeame, Ireland.

Solo and group exhibitions (selected):

2017 

Centro Luigi Pecci, Prato

GNAM, Roma

Castello di Rivoli, Torino

 

2016

The Museum of Modern Art, Oslo 

 

2013

MoMA, New York 

 

2011

MADRE, Napoli

MAXXI, Roma

 

2010

MACRO, Roma

 

2009 

Institut d’Art Modern, Valencia

 

MAMbo, Bologna

Palazzo Frissioni, Bergamo

 

2008

Palazzo Grassi, Venezia 

 

2007

Castello di Rivoli, Torino

 

2006

Biennale di Sculture di Carrara, Carrara

Palazzo Grassi, Venezia

Poggiali e Forconi, Firenze

 

2005

Galleria Centro Steccata, Parma

CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia

Galleria Cardi, Milano

ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe

Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino

Palazzo Cavour, Torino

Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato

MART-Museo dArte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto

Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano

recommended Walter Storms Galerie, Monaco di Baviera

Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepubilk Deutschland, Bonn

Rizziero Arte, Pescara

Galleria dArte 2000 & NOVECENTO, Reggio Emilia

Galleria Nazionale dArte Moderna, Roma

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

 

2004

Galleria Il Ponte, Firenze

Galleria Fumagalli Bergamo, Bergamo

Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna

Galleria Biasutti Giampiero, Torino

Villa Croce Museo dArte Contemporanea, Genova

Galleria dArte 2000 & NOVECENTO, Reggio Emilia

Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum • Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg

Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo

Artiscope, Bruxelles

 

2003

Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf

Baronian_Francey, Bruxelles

S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent

Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli

CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

Galleria Biasutti Giampiero, Torino

Baronian_Francey, Bruxelles

 

2002

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW

Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato

The Centre for Contemporary Art, Varsavia

MOCA THE GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY, Los Angeles, CA

Artiscope, Bruxelles

Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto

 

2001

Gruppenausstellung – Lichtkunstobjekte, maerzgalerie, Lipsia

Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - Torino, Torino

Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea, New York, NY

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerna

Tate Modern, Londra (Inghilterra)

 

2000

Galleria Giorgio Persano, Torino

MUSEO D`ARTE CONTEMPORANEA CASTELLO DI RIVOLI, Torino

Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Ginevra

 

1999

MUSEO D`ARTE CONTEMPORANEA CASTELLO DI RIVOLI, Torino

Galleria Comunale dArte Moderna e Contemporanea - Roma, Roma

 

1998

S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent