Works by Fulvio Di Piazza
Fulvio Di Piazza was born in Siracusa in 1969. He studied at the Urbino Art Academy and now he lives and works in Palermo. Artforum once called Fulvio di Piazza’s paintings a prime example of horror vacui, a term for filling an entire surface of an artwork with detail. He makes large oil paintings of fantastical scenes with lush forests, spiraling volcanic smoke, islands in the sky, and vividly colored sun light. Amid these, there are frequently large floating heads or animals floating in the center of his canvases, which upon closer inspection are actually composed of delicately and minutely detailed landscapes. Di Piazza has favored a dark palette for his paintings, and the abundance of swirling clouds has led people to interpret his works as pessimistic. In fact, di Piazza says the works are surreal renderings inspired by the work of political and economic theorist Jeremy Rifkin, in particular, his book Entropy.
Main Solo Exhibitions
2014 L’Isola nera, GAM_Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palermo Pacific, Galleria Giovanni Bonelli, Milano
2013 Nube ardente, Spazio Arte di CUBO, Centro Unipol, Bologna
2012 It’s a small big world (Malerei), Galerie Binz & Kraemer, Colonia, Germania Ashes to Ashes, Jonathan LeVine Gallery, New York
2011Fisiologia del Paesaggio (con Juan Carlos Ceci), a cura di Daniele Capra, Musei di Zoologia e di Anatomia Comparata dell’Università di Bologna Earthquake, a cura di Helga Marsala, Riso, Museo di Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo
2010 Fulvio Di Piazza (e Paul Beel), Palazzo Elti, Gemona del Friuli, Udine Fulvio Di Piazza, Palazzo Ziino, Palermo Fulvio Di Piazza (con Nicola Verlato e Eric White), Jonathan LeVine, New York Magie und Fantasie, Neuer Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg, Germania
2009 DIO frana, Colombo Arte Contemporanea, Milano
2008 Succuland , Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles
2006 Clorofilla, Bonelli ArteContemporanea, Mantova
2004 Fuso nella tempesta, Galleria civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di San Marino
2003 Popolare, Sergio Tossi Arte contemporanea, Firenze
2002 Galleria ES Torino
1999 Galleria ES. Torino, Catalogo a cura di Luca Beatrice Caccia all’Alba, Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Prato (catalogo di Alessandro Riva)
1998 Caccia all’alba, Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Prato
1996 Due Nuovi, Galleria Prati, Palermo