Gavino Piana
Sorso (Sassari), Italy
16 Works exhibited on Kooness
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Sorso (Sassari)
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Works by Gavino Piana
Gavino Piana was born in 1953 in Sorso (Sassari - Sardinia), where he lives and works.
As a self-taught, he became passionate about art at a young age. The first paintings are the landscapes of his Sardinia.
Recent works are chronologies of singular experiences. A world that seems to live in the absence of man, in which his past is perceived. With discretion, it offers constant narratives that are evident to those who have followed its evolution. Today, as yesterday, he exalts a sociological reading stands out that connects gaze and social inequality.
Yesterday a child hovered his kite of hope in the air of the refugee camp, as a seal of helpless pain. The bare rooms, corridors and doors, windows that direct lights and shadows and, by subtraction or addition of the beholder, highlight specific details.
The warm paneling of a professional's studio, whose window overlooks the roofs allows you to look towards the outside world and, by reciprocity, peek inside. Period details that are chronologies of an experience - old hospital beds, cast iron radiators, furniture, damp stains and mold on the walls.
Atelier of artists, strong geometries: canvases to be painted, the painting that tells the naked canvas to tell a story. Then sequences of industry: disused plants that become landscape; the production den of a forge that is unthinkable today: man replaced by robotics.
Luckily? Or expropriated of his skills as a homo faber, Prometheus stripped of delirium?
A narrative that includes the external gaze in the narrative of the image, inviting it to look for details that characterize these abandoned environments. In the symmetries of the painting - a room, a bed, a sheet, a window - ghosts and sufferings linger. Presences loom, to be witnessed. Chronological misdirection, which in a mature age leads to rethink life lived: the wealth of experiences, second thoughts, corrections, complicities - and one wonders if there has always been diligence and good faith. It is a knowing through pictorial metaphors, a questioning through the artistic trait. The continuous inner excavation is a narration through details of a universe that the picture highlights: in that bed of yesterday there is the suffering of those who were guests.
The pictorial gaze is severe, selective, critical, aware, ethical. Empathetic.
Curriculum vitae and solo exhibition
1996 - Palazzo della provincia – Sassari
1997 - Galleria “MGP Arte contemporanea” – Roma
1998 - Castello dei Doria – Castelsardo (Sassari)
2004 - Palazzo Municipale – Porto Torres (Sassari)
2005 - Palazzo della Frumentaria – Sassari | Palazzo Municipale – Bultei (Sassari) | Spazio arte “De Castellani” – Firenze
2010 - Palazzo Confindustria “Villa Mimosa” – Sassari
2011 - Galleria “Il Portico” – Nuoro
2012 - Galleria “Messaggerie Sarde” – Sassari
2013 - Ex Convento delle Clarisse - Ozieri (Sassari)
2014 - “Ex B” - S. Teresa di Gallura (Sassari)
2016 - Fideuram ARTE (Banca Fideuram) - Roma
2017 - Teatro PICCOLA FENICE - Trieste
2018 - Tivarnella Art Consulting- Trieste
2023 - 1758 Venive Art studio - Venezia
Awards and collective exhibition
1998 - Sassari
2010 - Galleria” Il Portico”- Nuoro
2012 - 1° Fiera Nazionale d’arte del piccolo formato – Museo d‘arte contemporanea | Fondazione Meilogu, Logudoro (FLM) - Banari (Sassari) | Fiera internazionale d’arte – Cannes
2013 - Galleria “Il Portico” – Nuoro
- “Morsi d’arte” – Milis (Oristano)
- 1° Mostra regionale di medici pittori – (Oristano)
- Premio internazionale d’arte “ISOLE” – X edizione - Padru (SS)
2014 - “ Premio Accademia Cattani” - 2a edizione - Bologna
- Banari - Fiera Nazionale d’arte del piccolo formato - 2a edizione – Banari ( SS)
- Ass. Momenti d’Artista - “ Maestri a confronto”- Bologna
- Ass. Momenti d’Artista - “ Percorsi in Accademia”- Bologna
- Galleria “Il Portico” – Nuoro
2015 - 2a Mostra “Arte in città” – Oristano
- “Start up Fair 2015” – Alghero (SS)
- 2a Edizione “Medici Pittori” - Oristano
2016 - Finalista al X° Concorso Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea
‘ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE ’. Venezia
2016 - Finalista al Concorso Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea
‘ LYNX ’ – Trieste
2016 - Collettiva finalisti PREMIO LYNX 2016 – Ajdovscina (Slovenia)
2017 - Collettiva finalisti PREMIO LYNX 2016 – Fortezza Nuova – Livorno
2017 - Selezionato a THE ARTBOX.PROJECT BASEL 1.0, giugno 2017
2017 - Internazionale d’arte di selezione BIENNALE di ROMA XII edizione – Sardegna
2017 - Finalista PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE Marchionni – Villacidro – Sardegna
2017 - 25° SIMPOSIO INTERNAZIONALE D’ARTE –Sinji vrh –Slovenia
2018 - Finalista 1^ edizione del Premio Internazionale ROSPIGLIOSI ART PRIZE
2018 - Collettiva FACES – I volti dell’uomo . ‘’Indipendent Artist’’ - Milano
2019 - Finalista al 13° Concorso Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea
‘’ ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE ‘’ Venezia
2019 - Primo classificato Premio Internazionale d’Arte Contemporanea
‘’LYNX’’ - Trieste
2019 - Tivarnella Art Consulting - Trieste
2019 - Museo Internazionale Italia Arte – Torino
2019 - Lokarjeva Galerija – Ajdovscina - Slovenia
2021 - Secondo classificato PREMIO ARTE BORGO - 1^ EDIZIONE 2021 - Museo Crocetti - Roma
2022 - THOMSON GALLERY - Zug - Svizzera
2022 - ''The Last Party''- Galleria Sivec - Radovljica - Slovenia
2022 - ''Riflessi'' -1758 VENICE ART STUDIO - Venezia
2022 - ''Into The Landscape'' - 1758 VENICE ART STUDIO - Venezia
2022 - ONART GALLERY - Firenze
2023 -ONART GALLERY - Firenze
2023 - Finalista 16^ edizione ARTE LAGUNA PRIZE