This book was published on the occasion of the solo exhibition Marango, curated by Vittorio Calabrese at New York University Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York City, May 1 - June 14, 2018. The book featured an essays by Ara H. Merjian and contributions from Stefano Albertini, Nancy Olnick, and Giorgio Spanu.
© 2018 MIA–Magazzino Italian Art
About the Artist
Alessandro Piangiamore was born in Enna, Sicily, in 1976, Alessandro Piangiamore lives and works in Rome. In his work, the attempt to crystallize the ephemeral, the evanescent, is recurrent, through a practical approach to the material that, as the artist claims, allows him to adhere to reality and an understanding of it. His practice always maintain an intimate and poestic dimension that often leaves the state of the final form to chance. He won numerous prizes and residencies such as the 2015: Prize of the Cité internationale de la tapisserie, Aubusson (FR); 16th Cairo Award, Cairo Editore, Milan (IT); 2010: Global Art Program with Khoj Studio, New Delhi (IND); and Artegiovane, Milan (IT); 2007 Passport Prize, with DENA Foundation for Contemporary Art (FR) and City of Turin (IT). His keynote exhibitions include solo shows Primavera Piangiamore at the Palais de Tokyo in 2014, Tutto il Vento che c’è at the Galleria Civica Segantini di Arco (TN) in 2013, and at the GAMEC in Bergamo in 2011; Marango, Casa Italiana Zerilli- Marimo at NYU, in New York in 2018. He has participated in group shows including The Lasting (Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome 2016); Par Tibi Roma Nihil, NOMAS Foundation, Rome 2016; Meteorite in Giar dino (Fondazione Merz, Turin 2014); Sletto e Corso, (XXI Biennal de Selestat, France 2013); ReGeneration (Macro, Rome 2012); Mutiny Seemed a Probability (Fondazione Giuliani, Rome 2010); and Le 50 Lune di Saturno (Triennale di Torino 2008).
About the Contributors
Ara H. Merjian is Associate Professor of Italian Studies at New York University, where he is affiliate of the Institute of Fine Arts and Department of Art History, as well Director of Undergraduate Studies. He is the author of Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City: Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris (Yale, 2014) and of the forthcoming Against the Avant-Garde: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Contemporary Art and Neocapitalism, 1960-1975 (University of Chicago Press, 2019). His criticism has appeared in Artforum, Art in America, Frieze, Apollo, and other publications.