FAUSTO MELOTTI Born Trentino, Italy 1901-1986 Prizes & Awards 1986 Golden Lion, awarded posthumously, XLII Biennale, Venice, Italy 1978 Premio Antonio Feltrinelli for sculpture, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei 1977 15th Premio Europeo Umberto Biancamano 1974 Rembrandt Prize, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Foundation, Basel, Switzerland 1964 Gold Medal, International Exhibition, Munich 1962 Gold Medal, International Exhibition, Prague 1958 Grand Gold Medal for Italian craftsmanship, Milan 1951 Grand Prize, IX Triennale di Milano 1938 Premio La Sarraz, Switzerland Selected Solo Exhibitions 2005 “Fausto Melotti,” Museo Fondazione Luciana Matalon, Milan, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid “Fausto Melotti,” Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany 2004 “Fausto Melotti,” Musée des Arts Contemporains, Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium “Fausto Melotti,” Palazzo Binelli, Carrara, Italy 2003 “Fausto Melotti,” Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Bottega d’Arte, Acqui Terme, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Amadeo Porro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Milan, Italy 2002 “Fausto Melotti,” Il Segno, Rome “Fausto Melotti,” Musée Picasso, Antibes, France “Fausto Melotti,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 2001 Fausto Melotti,” Nicolas Sursock Museum, Beirut “Fausto Melotti,” Carlina Galleria d’Arte, Turin, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Museo Virgiliano, Virgilio, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Compagnia di Belle Arti, Milan, Italy 2000 “Fausto Melotti,” Fondazione Bandera per l’Arte, Busto Arsizio, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany “Fausto Melotti,” Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art, Istanbul “Fausto Melotti,” Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany “Fausto Melotti,” Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy 1999 “Fausto Melotti,” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan “Fausto Melotti,” Lawrence Rubin/Greenberg Van Doren Fine Art, New York “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italy 1997 “Fausto Melotti,” Studio Casoli, Rome 1996 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria delle Scudo, Verona, Italy 1995 “Fausto Melotti,” Whanki Museum, Seoul “Fausto Melotti,” Forni Scultura, Bologna, Italy 1994 “Fausto Melotti,” Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York “Fausto Melotti,” IVAM Centro Julio Gonzàlez, Valencia, Spain 1991 “Fausto Melotti,” Villa Arconati, Bollate, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria delle Scudo, Verona, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Eva Menzio, Turin, Italy 1990 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria di Meo, Paris “Fausto Melotti,” Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland “Fausto Melotti,” Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan 1989 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Civica Palazzo Todeschini, Desenzano del Garde, Italy 1988 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria d’Arte Il Cenacolo, Trento, Italy 1987 “Fausto Melotti,” Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Chiese rupestri Madonna delle Virtù e San Nicola dei Greci, Palazzo Lanfranchi, Matera, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke-Le-Zoute, Belgium 1986 “Fausto Melotti,” La Sanseverina Galleria d’Arte, Parma, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Marie-Louise Janneret Art Moderne, Geneva, Switzerland 1985 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria d’Arte Martano, Turin, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Frankfurter Westend Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany 1984 “Fausto Melotti,” Studio d’Arte Contemporanea Dabbeni, Lugano, Switzerland 1983 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Pancheri, Rovereto, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria San Luca, Bologna, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome 198 “Fausto Melotti,” Galerie Lopes, Zurich, Switzerland “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria d’Arte Martano, Turin, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” L’Arco, Studio Internazionale d’Arte Grafica, Rome 1981 “Fausto Melotti,” Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds, France “Fausto Melotti,” Forte di Belvedere, Florence, Italy 1979 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Anna d’Ascanio A2, Rome “Fausto Melotti,” Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Pero arte contemporanea, Milan 1978 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Morone 6, Milan, Italy 1977 “Fausto Melotti,” Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trento, Italy 1976 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Editalia QUI arte contemporanea, Rome “Fausto Melotti,” Università di Parma, Sala delle Scuderie in Pilotta, Parma, Italy 1975 “Fausto Melotti,” Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria La Piramide, Florence, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Martini Ronchetti Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Beniamino, Sanremo, Italy 1974 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria dei Bibliofini di Milano, Milan, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome 1973 “Fausto Melotti,” Marlborough Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland “Fausto Melotti,” Marlborough Galleria d’Arte, Rome 1972 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy 1971 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Galatea, Turin, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria d’Arte Martano, Turin, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria dell’Ariete, Milan, Italy 1968 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Il Segno, Rome “Fausto Melotti,” Sala Comunale delle Esposizioni, Reggio Emilia, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Palazzo dei Diamanti, Centro Attivita Visive, Ferrara, Italy “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Notizie, Turin, Italy 1967 “Fausto Melotti,” Toninelli Arte Moderna, Milan, Italy 1960 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria Apollinaire, Milan, Italy 1957 “Fausto Melotti,” Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas 1956 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria L’Annunciata, Milan, Italy 1935 “Fausto Melotti,” Galleria del Milione, Milan, Italy Selected Group Exhibitions 2005 “Il disegno della scultura contemporanea. Da Fontana a Paladino,” Palazzo Binelli, Carrara, Italy “La Scultura italiana del XX secolo,” Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy “La mar de arte. Art Galore,” Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain 2004 “Bambini nel tempo,” Palazzo Te, Mantova, Italy “Les enfants terribles. Il linguaggio dell’infanzia nell’arte 1909-2004,” Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland 2003 “La Collecciòn Gori – The Gori Collection,” Institut Valencià d’Arte Modern, Valencia, Spain “Scultura lingua morta,” Henry Moore Institute, Leeds 2001- 2002 “Italian Sculpture of the XX Century,” Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan [traveled to: Kagoshima City Museum of Art, Kagoshima, Japan; The Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, Japan; Shimane Art Museum, Shimane, Japan] 2001 “L’avventura della materia – Der Italienische Weg vom Futurismus zum Laser,” Kunstforum in der Grundkreditbank, Berlin “La Scultura Moderna in Italia,” Basilica Palladiana, Venice, Italy 2000 “L’Opéra, un chant d’étoiles,” Ateliers de la Monnaie, Brussels “Voici, 100 ans d’art contemporain,” Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels “Novecento – Arte e storia in Italia,” Scuderie papali al Quirinale – Mercati di Traiano, Rome 1998-2000 “Minimalia: an Italian vision of 20th Century Art,” Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome [traveled to: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York] 1997-1998 “ABSTRACTA, Austria Germania Italia 1919-1939,” Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bolzano [traveled to: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria; Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, Italy] “Italian Art 1945-1995, The Visible and the Invisible,” Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Aichi Arts Center, Nagoya, Japan [traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan] 1997 “Années 30 en Europe,” Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris “Minimalia. Da Giacomo Balla a…,” Palazzo Querini Dubois, Venice, Italy 1996 “Fausto Melotti und Lucio Fontana,” Galerie Lawrence Rubin, Zurich, Switzerland “Face à l’Histoire,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1995-1996 “Art and Power; Europe under the dictators 1930-1945,” The Hayward Gallery, London [traveled to: Centre de Cultura Contemporania, Barcelona, Spain; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin] 1995 “XLVI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d’Arte,” Museo Correr, Venice, Italy 1994-1995 “The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York [traveled to: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany] 1994 “Disegno e scultura nell’arte italiana del XX secolo,” Museo della Permanente, Milan, Italy “Kunst und Diktatur,” Kunstlerhaus, Vienna 1993 “La Collection Mme Christian Stein,” Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain Midi- Pyrénées, Toulouse, France “Un’avventura internazionale, Torino e le arti 1950-1970,” Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy 1992 “A short history of Modern Italian Sculpture,” The Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation, New York “La collection Christian Stein, Un regard sur l’art Italien,” Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France “Internationale Kleinplastik,” Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisberg, Germany 1991 “An idea of lightness,” Kodama Gallery, Osaka, Japan “Arte Italiana 1895-1952 dai Musei Triveneti,” Palazzo Sternberk, Prague “Letteratura artistica, Documenti del Novecento in Italia,” Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy “Nuove acquisizioni,” Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy 1990 “Italiens moderne. Futurismus und Rationalismus,” Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany “Vanguardia Italiana de Entreguerras, Futurismo y Racionalismo,” IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain “Scultura a Milano 1945-1990,” Palazzo della Permanente, Milan, Italy “Paris, Arte Abstracto arte Concreto, Cercle et Carré,” IVAM Centre