Paolo Parisi

Paolo Parisi (born 23 August 1965 in Catania) is an Italian artist and professor of art.

Life and work Paolo Parisi was born in Italy in 1965 in the Sicilian port city of Catania.

By using different media such as painting, sound and light, Paolo Parisi explores in his practice the possibility of the existence of painting in the so-called "expanded field". In this way he opens a physical dimension to the visual experience.

The artist's works have been presented in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Italy, and also in other countries, including Germany, France, Japan and in China. His first solo exhibition in a museum outside Italy was held in 2006 at the Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus and Kunstbau Munich with the title Observatorium (Against the Stream). For this exhibition, he conceived a synthesis of his work directly related to the exhibition spaces of Lenbachhaus, highlighting the different aspects of his entire oeuvre.

Since 1993, Parisi has combined his profession as an artist with teaching activities at art academies in Italy and abroad. Thus, from 1993 to 2010, he taught Art at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. Since 2010, Parisi has held a professorship at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

Paolo Parisi lives and works in Florence. 2021: Paolo Parisi. The Weather was Mild on the Day of my Departure, Building Gallery, Milan 2018: Paolo Parisi, M U S E O, Museo Novecento, Florenz 2013: Paolo Parisi, Paesaggi | Landscapes, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna 2008: Observatorium (Museum), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato 2006: Paolo Parisi. Observatorium – Gegen den Strom, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München 2001: One close to other (about Landscape and Architecture), Aller Art Verein, Bludenz 1996: Uno sull’altro e uno accanto all’altro, Galleria Gianluca Collica, Catania

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

2022: No, Neon, No Cry, MAMbo – Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna 2018 Mental Landscapes / Natural Trajectories, collateral Event auf der Manifesta 12, Palermo 2017: Io sono qui!, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Testaccio, Rome 2015: Masterpieces of the Farnesina Collection. A glance at Italian art from the 1950s to the present, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Zagreb 2013: Trip and Travelling. Introduction / What is missing? Klaipėda Culture Communication Center (KCCC), Klaipeda 2013: Primavera 2, CNEAI, Ile des Impressionnistes, Chatou, Paris 2010: Collezione Paolo Brodbeck: Pittura Italiana 1949/2010, Fondazione Brodbeck, Catania 2010: PPS, Riso, Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst in Sizilien, Palermo 2009: Italian Genius Now (back to Rome), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rom 2007: Italian Genius Now (back to Rome), Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi / White House, Singapour 2005: Collezione permanente, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato 2001: Leggerezza, Ein Blick auf zeitgenössische Kunst in Italien, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, München 2001: Abitanti. Arte in relazione, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia 2000: Undici, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Fichera, Catania 1997: Unna, Fortezzo da basso, Florenz

Literature

Paolo Parisi. Observatorium (Museum), Hrsg. von Centro per l´arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato 2008, Paolo Parisi. Observatorium – gegen den Strom. Hrsg. von Helmut Friedel, Lenbachhaus München, München 2006, ISBN 3-907474-34-1