Piero Gilardi

Born in 1942 in Torino, Italy Lives and works in Torino fondazionecentrostudipierogilardi.org

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie, Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris FNAC - Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris FRAC Basse-Normandie, Caen FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque FRAC Poitou Charentes, Angoulême FRAC Limousin, Limoges FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux Galleria Civica of Modern Art and Contemporary of Torino Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna of , Milano Giorgio Morandi Foundation, Bologna Ludwig Foundation, Vienna MAMCO - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York Moderna Museet, Stockolm Musée national d'art moderne Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris Museo d'Arte Contemporanea L. Pecci, Prato Museum Hedendaagse, Gent Museum fur Gegenwartskunts, Karlsruhe Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

SOLO SHOWS

2020 Dalla Natura all'Arte (cur. Valerie Da Costa), Michel Rein, Paris, France

2018 La tempesta perfetta, Galleria Giraldi, Livorno, Italy Biopolitics, Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Germany

2017

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michelrein.com Nature forever (cur. Hou Hanru Bartolomeo Pietromarchi & Marco Scotini), MAXXI Rome, Italy

2016 May days in , GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Torino, Italy

2014 Mezzo secolo di ecologia della mente, Guido Costa Projects, Torino, Italy

2013 Collaborative effects, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom Percorsi di Natura, Galleria Paola Verrengia, Salerno, Italy Piero Gilardi, PAV - Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy Decorum, Musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris, France Quarantanni d'arte contemporanea, Collezioni Minini Triennale di Milano, Italy

2012 Collaborative effects 1963 - 1995, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Nottingham, Contemporary Nottingham, United Kingdom Effeti Collaborativi, Castello de Rivoli, Torino, Italy

2010 Leçon de Choses, CCOD - Centre de Création Contemporaine Olivier Debré, Tours, France Galleria Russo, Roma Milano, Italy

2009 Semiose, Paris, France Marine delle Canarie, Galleria Colossi, Brescia, Italy

2008 l suono della natura, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy Opere storiche, Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino, Italy

2007 Non luogo e nostalgia dell'Eden, Galleria Chiostro Arte Contemporanea, Saronno, Italy

2006 Interdipendence, Civic Galleria of Modena, Italy Natura ricreata, Galleria Russo, Roma, Italy

2005 Bianca natura Biasutti & Biasutti, Gallery Torino, Italy Un percorso di natura, Galleria Santo Ficara, Firenze, Italy

2004 One man show, Poggi Gallery, Ravenna, Italy

2003 Flower Power, Musée d'art moderne, Lille, France l giardino di Dionisio, Galleria Biasutti & Biasutti, Torino, Italy Giardini, Galleria Vinciana, Milano, Italy

2001

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michelrein.com Scoglio Lunare, Galleria Cristiani-Pron, Paris, France Scoglio Bretone, Galleria Astuni, Pietrasanta, Italy Acqua Virtuale, Galleria II Vicolo, Genova, Italy

2000 Acqua Virtuale, Galleria Guastalla, Livorno, Italy

1999 Piero Gilardi - anthological exhibition, Loggetta Lombardesca, Ravenna, Italy

1998 General Intellect, Galleria Massimo Minini, Brescia, Italy

1997 Elements, Galleria B&D, Milano, Italy Natura umbra, Galleria Ronchini, Terni, Italy Paesaggi sonori, Galleria Dialoghi Biella ; Galleria Altri lavori in corso Roma, Italy

1996 Opere multimediali, Galleria Santo Ficara, Firenze, Italy Hortus conclusus, Galleria Ciocca e Raffaelli, Milano, Italy

1995 Installation, Stefano Fumagalli Gallery, Bergamo, Italy

1994 Tappeti natura, Galerie DiMeo, Paris, France

1993 Tappeti natura, Studio Duomo, Terni, Italy Studio Spaggiari, Milano, Italy

1992 Galleria Costa, Casale Monferrato, Italy

1991 Inverosimile Sperone, Westwater Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Di Meo, Paris, France Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy

1990 Galleria II Campo, Roma, France Galleria Santo Ficara, Firenze, Italy Salone Villa Romana, Firenze, Italy Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna of Trento, Italy

1989 Project Ixiana, Musée des Arts Decoratifs Paris, France Falchi e colombe, Percorso della scultura Milano, Italy Stop Pollution, Studio Marconi, Milano, Italy Galleria Toselli, Milano, Italy

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michelrein.com 1988 Galerie Lara Vincy, Paris, France

1987 Galerie Lucien Bilinelli, Brussels, Belgium Galleria Eva Menzio, Turino, Italy Galleria Giuli, Lecco, Italy Galleria dei bianchi nuovi, Roma, Italy

1986 I Gilardi, Museo Comunale, Mendrisio, Italy Galleria Pio Monti, Roma, Italy Galleria Seno, Milano, Italy

1985 1963-85 20 years of research, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy

1984 Gallery Toselli, Milano, Italy Animazione urbana, Centro Internazionale di Brera, Milano, Italy

1982 Tappeti natura, Galleria Persano, Torino, Italy

1981 Tappeti natura, Galleria Persano, Torino, Italy

1980 Tappeti natura, Galleria Persano, Torino, Italy

1979 Galleria Serre Ratti, Como, Italy

1976 Galleria E Bolzano, Italy Galleria la Nuova Città, Verone, Italy

1975 Galleria la Nuova Città, Brescia, Italy

1974 Tappeti natura, Plura Gallery, Milan, Italy

1967 Tappeti natura, Ileana Sonnabend Galerie, Paris, France ; Fischbach Gallery, New York, USA Galerie Zwirner, , Germany Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, Germany Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Torino, Italy Tappeti-Natura e Vestiti-Natura, Piper-Club, Torino, Italy Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy Galleria La Nuova Loggia, Bologna, Italy Galerie Aujourd'hui, Bruxelles, Belgium

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michelrein.com Galerie Michery, , The Nederlands

1966 Tappeti natura, Sperone Gallery, Torino, Italy

1963 Macchine per il futuro, Galleria L'immagine, Torino, Italy Circolo dell'Associazione Partigiani Autonomi del Piemonte, Torino, Italy

1962 Galleria Rege Santiano, Pinerolo, Italy

1961 Galleria Cassiopea, Torino, Italy

1959 Galleria Cassiopea, Torino, Italy

GROUP SHOWS

2020 Oh les beaux jours (Happy Days), Michel Rein, Paris, France Pendant que les champs brûlent, Maison des arts Georges et Claude Pompidou, Cajarc, France Non si può essere incolti al punto di amare solo cose di alta qualità, galerie Martina Simeti, Milan, Italie

2019 Il était une fois dans l'Ouest (cur. Claire Jacques & associés avec la collaboration de Magalie Meunier), FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine, MECA Bordeaux, France Super Synthèse exposition itinérante sur l'urgence climatique, Verneuil d'Avre et d'Iton, France The Quarries of Imagination - Stones between Art and Artifact, Intermediatheque The University, Museum of Tokyo, Japan Resistenza/Resilienza, PAV - Parco Arte Vivente, Turino, Italy

2018 Cosmogonies au gré des éléments, MAMAC - Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain, Nice, France Rock Garden, Semiose, Paris, France Starting from the Desert Ecologies on the Edge (cur. by Marco Scotini), Museum of Contemporary Art, Yinchuan, China A propos du Land Art, FRAC Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Limousin, Limoges, France Testimonianze - Composizioni Materiche E Oggettuali Dagli Anni'60 Ad Oggi, Galleria d'Arte 2000 & Novecento, Reggio Emilia, Italy The God-Trick, PAV - Parco Arte Vivente, Turino, Italy No Man's Land, Mudam Musée d'art Moderne, Luxembourg

2017 Manufatto in situ - 10 Paesaggi, CIAC - Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea, Foligno, Italy Prima visione, Gagliardi e Domke, Torino, Italy Michel Blazy, Piero Gilardi, Tetsumi Kudo, Anicka Yi, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA Swiss Pop, MAMCO - Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Genève, Switzerland Colori Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy La vie aquatique, Musée régional d'art contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France The Extractive Machine Neo-colonialisms and environmental resources, Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy

2016 Un Art Pauvre, Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France

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michelrein.com Archéologie du présent (cur. by Sébastien Delot), Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne, France Italia Pop, L'Arte Negli Anni Del Boom, Fondazione Magnani Rocca, Parma, Italy Le jour du vin et des roses, FRAC Normandie, Caen, France Les Bains-Douches, Alençon, France L'Inarchiviabile, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milano, Italy Les pierres sauvages, Centre d'art Ten Bogaerde, exposition de la collection FRAC Nord-pas-de-Calais, Koksijde, Belgium

2015 L'arbre le bois la forêt : lieux du mythe du fantasme de la peur supports de l'imaginaire, Abbaye-St-André Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France Roc, Galerie du Jour Agnès b, Paris, France Deep Screen, Centre d'Art du Parc Saint-Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux, France Grow It Yourself PAV / Parco Arte Vivente, Torino, Italy

2014 Decorum carpets and tapestries by artists, Power Station of Art Shanghai, China Mécaniques du dessin, FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France Habitat Minerva, Sydney, Australia Natura Lapsa, Le confort moderne, Poitiers, France Latin Lovers, FRAC Nord-Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France The 1st Xinjiang International Arts Biennale, Urumqi Internationnal Exhibition Center, Urumqi Vegetation as a Political Agent, PAV - Parco Arte Vivente, Turin, Italy Disobedience Archive (The Park), SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul, Turkey L'écho / Ce qui sépare, FRAC Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France Extraordinaire, Le Bel Ordinaire Espace d'art Contemporain, Billière, France Cycle des histoires sans fin, MAMCO - Musée d'art moderne et contemporain, Genève, Terrain Sensible, L'Espinoa Espace culturel, Baignes, France Arte Fiera Bologna, Studio Guastalla, Milano, Italy

2013 Art Turning Left: How Values Changes Making 1789-2013, Tate Liverpool, United-Kingdom Archeologia, 40mcube, Rennes, France Trust, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France Noise, 55th Venice Biennale of Art Collateral Event - Ex Magazzini di San Cassian, Venice, Italy Disobedience Archive (The Republic), Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy Le Grand Tout, 30 ans du Frac Limousin, FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France L'arbre qui ne meurt jamais, Théâtre des Sablons, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Index G: Boîte, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Lissone, Italy Internaturalità, PAV - Parco Arte Vivente, Turino, Italy

2012 Osservazione della natura in stato di quiete. l'opera tra aura e condivisione, Museo Marino Marini, Firenze, Italy Sunset, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Linazay, France Scatola Nera, Allegretti Arte Contemporanea Torino, Italy

2011 Collector, oeuvres du Centre National des Arts Plastiques Tri Postal, Lille, France L'avenir du paysage, Semiose, Paris, France Le Jardin des Sculptures, Evergren, Montrouge, France

2010 Che Fare? Arte Povera the historic years, Kunstmuseum Lichentenstein, Vaduz D'après nature, Château d'Avignon, Les Saintes-Marie de la Mer, France

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michelrein.com Dans la Forêt, FRAC Aquitanie, Bordeaux, France Diverse forme bellissime, PAV - Parco d'arte vivente, Turino, Italy

2009 Spazio Tempo Immagine, CIAC - Centro Italiano Arte Contemporanea Foligno, Italy Nature en Kit, MUDAC, Lausanne, Switzerland Inganni ad Arte, Meraviglie del trompe l'oeil dall'antichità al contemporaneo, Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze, Italy

2008 Italics. Art italien entre tradition et révolution 1968 - 2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy 1988 vent'anni prima vent'anni dopo, Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Ecosoft Art, PAV - Parco Arte Vivente, Turino, Italy Visible/Invisible, installazione open-air, Verein Symposion, Lindabrunn, Vienna, Austria Time & Place, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

2007 Timeout. Art and Sustaibability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein Pop Art. La Via Italiana, Museo Archeologico di Chieti, Italy Italian Genius now, Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam

2006 Faster! Bigger! Better!, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany

2004 XI Biennale di Arte Sacra Museo Stauros, Teramo, Italy Il Riaffiorar dell'Acqua, con Tea Taramino Casa, Cavassa Saluzzo, Italy Pas de trois, Gas Artgallery, Turino, Italy Il Riaffiorar dell'Acqua con Tea Taramino, Casa Cavassa, Saluzzo, Italy

2003 Inverosimile ,installation à la Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, France Flower Power, Musée d'Art Moderne, Lille, France Fragments d'un discours italien, MAMCO - Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Coolustre, Collection Lambert Avignon, France

2002 Techne 02. Tra arte e tecnologia, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy Strategie della differenza, Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporanea Università di Roma La Sapienza, Roma, Italy

2001 Zero to infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972, Tate Modern London, United Kingdom Walker Art Center Minneapolis, USA Museum of Contemporary, Art Los Angeles, USA Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, USA L'arte elettronica. Metamorfosi e metafore, Civica Galleria d'Arte moderna di Ferrara , Italy Media Connection, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy Le tribù dell'arte, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna di Roma, Italy

2000 There is no spirit in painting, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

1999

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michelrein.com XIII Esposizione Nazionale Quadriennale d'Arte di Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma, Italy Techne. Tra arte e tecnologia, Spazio Oberdan, Milano, Italy Il sentimento del 2000. Dalla vita all'arte dall'arte alla vita, Triennale di Milano, Italy

1998 Arslab. I labirinti del corpo in gioco, Torino, Italy

1996 Espaces Interactifs, Europe Pavillon de Bercy, Paris Art at home, Copenaghen, Denmark

1995 Multimediale 4, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Arslab. The senses of the virtual, Promotrice Belle Arti Torino, Italy Oltre il Villaggio Globale, Triennale Milano, Italy Cybernauti, Palazzo Sanguinetti, Bologne, Italy La grande scala, Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Bergame, Italy

1993 Artec 93, Biennial of Nagoya, Japan L'Italia negli anni della Pop Vente, Museum Tokyo, Japan Opera Italiana Trittici, 45a Biennial of Venice, Italy Reflect-Restitution, Abbaye Saint-André, Meymac, France

1992 Erdsight. Global Change, Museum of Contemporary Art Bonn, Germany Frequence Lumineuse, , Paris, France Artifice, Saint Denis, Paris, France Poliset, Centre di video Arte, Ferrara, Italy

1991 Landscape as Stage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA Feuilles, MNAM - Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1990 Inverosimile, Castello di Volpaia Radda in Chianti, Italy La otra scultura, Madrid, Barcelona, Spain ; Darmstadt, Germany Grounded : Sculpture on the floor, Museum of art University of Michigan, USA

1989 Aspetti dell'Arte Povera, Galerie Willy d'Huysser, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium

1988 Tree 88, Seoul Olympic Park, South Korea Alberi parlanti, Italian Pavillion Expo Brisbane 88, Autralia East Meet West, Convention Center Los Angeles, USA La nature de l'art, Parc de la Villette, Paris, France Inventer 89, Grand Halle de la Villette, Paris, France

1987 Terrae motus, Grand Palais, Paris, France

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michelrein.com 1972 taly: the new domestic landscape, MoMA, New York, USA

1968 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA Dayton, Art Institute Dayton, USA Chicago Art Institute Chicago, USA Boetti Fontana Gandini Gilardi Lo Savio Manzoni Mondino Paolini Pascali Pistoletto Rotella Uncini, Galleria Christian Stein, Torino, Italy

1967 Campo vitale, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy Arte Povera, Centro Arte Viva Feltrinelli, Trieste, Italy Flavin Rosenquist Chamberlain Warhol Fontana Pistoletto Gilardi Piacentino Fabro Pascali Anselmo Zorio, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Torino, Italy Lo spazio degli elementi : Fuco Immagine Acqua Terra, Galleria L'Attico, Roma, Italy Frutta Fresca, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany Salon de mai, Paris, France

1966 Arte Abitabile, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Torino, Italy

1965 Carena Castellani Fontana Gilardi Pistoletto Sottsass, Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Torino, Italy

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