42. MARGHERITA MANZELLI



42. MARGHERITA MANZELLI

2012

Graphite, pastel, watercolor, glue and glitter on paper
77,2 x 56 cm / 30.4 x 22 inches




“La Casa delle Farfalle”
graphite and glitter on paper
77.2 × 56 cm


ncephale, 1998 Oil on canvas, 220,0 x 150,0 cm
2012

BIO & STEPS

Born:  
IN 1968 in Ravenna
Nowadays:
Lives and works in Ravenna.



Techniques:      
         Her work is developed in paintings and drawings.

Solo Exhibitions
2014 La casa delle farfalle, Kimmerich, Berlin
2013 La casa delle farfalle, greengrassi, London
2012 Il profeta, greengrassi, London
2011 L’ape e la rosa, Kimmerich, New York, NY
2010 Due, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
2008 Orientina, greengrassi, London
2005 Studio Guenzani, Milan
2004 Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2003 MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
2002 Drawings, paintings to follow, greengrassi, London
2000 Un cielo senza fine, Studio Guenzani, Milan
Parete Pavimento, Link, Bologna
1998 Well the Sun Comes Up and the Sun Goes Down, greengrassi, London
1996 Il pudore o l’impudenza, Openspace, Arengario, Milan
La terra fredda, Studio Guenzani, Milan
1995 Il fondo del mare-vulcano, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Spazio Umano, Milan
1994 Calmo fiume nero, Studio Guenzani, Milan
1993 Il vascello fantasma, Spazio Viafarina, Milan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Il corpo figurato, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
Portrait of the Artist as a Young (Wo) Man, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (cur. by Marciella Beccaria)
2013 Deep Feelings, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
2012 Pittura, Studio Guenzani, Milan
2011 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki*
Seeing Is a Kind of Thinking: A Jim Nutt Companion, MCA, Chicago, IL (curated by Julie Rodrigues
Widholm)*
mémoires du futur - la collection Olbricht, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2010 Il museo privato, GAMeC, Bergamo*
Lebenslust und Totentanz, Kunsthalle, Krems
2009 Das Gespinst, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Esposizione Universale, GAMeC, Bergamo
El tiempo del Arte, Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires
I Was So Much Younger Then, I’m Younger Than That Now, Antonio Colombo Arte Contemporanea,
Milan
Italics: Italian art between tradition and revolution, 1968-2008, MCA, Chicago, IL (curated by
Francesco Bonami)
2008 Italics: Italian art between tradition and revolution, 1968-2008, Palazzo Grassi, Venice (curated by
Francesco Bonami)
Paperweight, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
2007 At Home, Yvon Lambert, New York, NY (curated by Mario Testino)
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part II, Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Camera con vista, Palazzo Reale, Milan*
2006 SUBJECT, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
Il Diavolo del Focolare, Triennale, Palazzo dell’Arte, Milan
Ecce Uomo, Spazio Oberdan, Milan
2005 Il Male. Esercizi di pittura crudele, Palazzina di caccia di Stupinigi, Stupinigi
Donna Donne, a cura di Adelina von Fürstenberg, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
2004 I Nuovi Mostri, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Vernice. Sentieri della giovane pittura italiana, Villa Manin, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea,
Passariano (curated by Francesco Bonami & Sarah Cosulich Canarutto)
2003 La creazione ansiosa. Da Picasso a Bacon, Palazzo Forti, Verona; Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Turin
EU3, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
From Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964-2003, Museo Correr, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
Intervista con la pittura, Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice
2002 XXV Biennial of Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo
2001 Form follows Fiction, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (curated by Jeffrey Deitch)
Casino 2001, S.M.A.K., Ghent (curated by Jeanne Greenberg)
New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
Studio International, Hydra Workshop, Hydra*
The Art is a Fifth Element, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (curated by Douglas Fogle)
Chain of Visions (Visioni a catena), Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (curated by
Francesco Bonami)
2000 XXXIV Prix International d’Art Contemporain, Foundation Prince Peirre de Monaco, Montecarlo
51 Premio Michetti, Differenti prospettive nella pittura, Museo Michetti, Francavilla al mare
A casa di... Fondazione Michelangelo Pistoletto Cittadellarte, Biella (performance: La Strategia delli
Felicità, in collaboration with Antonella Piroli)
La jeune scène artistique italienne dans la collection de la Fondation Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
per l’arte, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan
Migrazioni, Centro delle Arti Contemporanee, Rome
1999 The Turn of the Century, Galleria in Arco, Turin
The Passion and the Wave, curated by Paolo Colombo, Sixth International Biennial, Istanbul
Examining Pictures Exhibiting Paintings, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Museum of
Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; Armand Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Paradise 8, Exit Art, New York, NY (curated by F. Sirmans)
1998 The Edge of Awareness, World Health Organisation, Geneva
Subway, Stazione Duomo della Metropolitana, Milan
Fuori Uso ‘98, Mercati Ortofrutticoli, Pescara
1997 Metamorphosis, Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Exelixis, Melina Merkoury Foundation, Athens (curated by Alice Rubbini)
Fatto in Italia, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva; ICA, London
Che cosa sono le nuvole?, Palazzo Re Rebaudengo per l’Arte Contemporanea, Guarene d'Alba
(curated by Francesco Bonami)
Antlitz/Countenance, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Three Painters: Kiki Lamers, Margherita Manzelli, Sandra Scolnik, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Controfigura, Studio Guenzani, Milan
Su questa sola base..., Primo Piano, Rome
Antologia, Spazio Herno, Turin; Flash Art Museum, Trevi
Panorama Italiano 1, Flash Art Museum, Trevi
Straniero in mondi stranieri, Ex Officina Meccanica, Caserta
1995 Aperto 95’, Flash Art Museum, Trevi
Tradition & Innovation. Italian Art since 1945, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
1994 Rien a Signaler, Gallery Analix, Geneva (curated by Gianni Romano)
Inventario 3, Gallery Loft, Valdagno, Vicenza
Ars Lux, different venues, Bologna
Sonnambule, Lo Stato dell’Arte, Spazio Bondardo, Milan (curated by Angela Vettese)
1993 Time to time, Castello di Rivara, Turin
Peccato di novità, Gallery Emi Fontana, Turin
1992 Tattoo Collection, Air de Paris, Nice; Urbi et Orbi, Paris and Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Aceland Arx: Territori Occupati, Galleria Arx, Turin
Nonostante tutto, S. Maria ad Nives, Rimini
Viafarina Invita, Spazio Viafarini, Milan
1991 Strizzapulcini, PROVOC’ARTE, Repubblica di San Marino (curated by Roberto Daolio)
Area Condizionata, Magazzini del Sale, Cervia
Ipotesi a confronto, Musei Comunale, Rimini
1990 Collettiva, Magazzini del Sale, Cervia
1988 Artestate, Savignano sul Rubicone, Forlì
Prizes and Awards
2003 Diploma conferito dal Presidente della Repubblica Carlo Azeglio Ciampi di Benemerita della Cultura
e dell'Arte, con medaglia di bronzo, del Ministero dei Beni Culturali, Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome
2002 Medaglia d'oro Premio Amici di Milano, Milan
2001 Prix Fondation Princesse Grace, Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco, XXXIV Prix International d’Art
Contemporain de Monte Carlo

In her own words:
"I am self-taught. And I still feel a beginner to this. No one taught me what then I practiced stubbornly. For this reason, I feel that one has had a tremendous fortune. Or maybe my being so stubborn, out of place, weird, he was somehow paid off. I do not tell you then face the fact that my mother when I confessed that I wanted to be an artist ... "

Representative Galleries:

Kimmerich
Greengrassy

For more Information:
http://www.greengrassi.com/file_columns/0000/0234/manzelli_biography.pdf

En Español:

http://www.abc.es/fotos-cultura/20110218/possibilita-sono-infinite-margherita-1401111255703.html