Born in Rome 20/12/1972

1985 - 1987-------------Hillcrest Primary School (Grade 7, Form 1); Mutare, Zimbabwe.
1991-----------------------Boulder High School, Boulder, Colorado.
1992-----------------------Scientific Diploma (43/60) Liceo Scientifico Benedetto Croce.
1992 - 1997-------------Academy of Arts of Rome –  Scenography - Set design.
1997 - 1998-------------Burg Giebichenstein, Hochschule  fur Kunst und Design; Halle, Germany.
1998-----------------------Diploma in Scenography-Set Design at the Academy of Arts of Rome (110/110 Lode).

 

EXPOSITIONS - Professional Experiences

 

2009----------------------Collective exhibition - "Movimentazioni" - curated by Violabox Gallery - Area porto antico - Genova - Italy.

2009----------------------Triple Personal exhibition - "ARCANUM SIMII - das geheimnis des affen" -Okidoki Gallery - Berlin - Germany.

2009----------------------Collective exhibition - "Grab Release Party" - curated by RGB46 - Circolo degli Artisti - Rome - Italy.

2009----------------------Theatre - "Quella scimmietta di mio figlio" Regia di Benedetto Sicca, scenografie di T. Garavini, T. Guerra, F. Di Nardo - Nuovo Teatro Nuovo - Napoli - Italy.

2009----------------------Collective exhibition - "Crack" - C.S.O.A. Forte Prenestino - Rome - Italy.

2009----------------------Collective exhibition - "Artconventional" - Villa Certosa - Rome - Italy.

2009----------------------Collective exhibition - "Supernatural Inspiration" - Famiglia Margini Gallery - Milan - Italy.

2009----------------------Collective exhibition - "Trasformazione" - Bunkalab - Rome - Italy.

2009----------------------Collective exhibition - "Violabox in MF Gallery" - MF Gallery - Genova - Italy.

2008----------------------Collective exhibition - "Infart Outdoor Exhibition" - installation - "Pause"- Garage Nardini - Bassano del Grappa, Italy.

2008----------------------Personal exhibition - "Sulle Colonne di Mia Coscienza" - Atelier 777 - Pescara, Italy.

2008----------------------Personal exhibition - LATO gallery - Prato, Italy.

2008----------------------Collective exhibition - "Il Bosco delle Soluzioni" - collective exhibition - RGB46 - - Rome, Italy.

2008----------------------Personal exhibition - "Prometheus" - installation - RGB46 - - Rome, Italy. PROMETHEUS

2007----------------------Personal exhibition - "Weltschmerzbau" - Studio Caronte - Rome, Italy.

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "Incubi" - RGB46 - Rome, Italy.

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "Mongopalooza" - Strike s.p.a.- Rome, Italy.

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "Supermart" - ARCH Galleria delle cose - Rome, Italy.

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "ferro" - Ex Convento dei padri Scolopi - Tricase, Italy. INSTALLATION - RESURREXIT (non plus)

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "ArtProcess Trapani" - Trapani, Italy.

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "Infart 2007" - Casa del conte Usso - Bassano del Grappa, Italy. INSTALLATION - RESURREXI

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "ferro" - Giorgio's warehouse - Rome, Italy. INSTALLATION - RESURREXIT (non plus)

2007----------------------Double Personal exhibition - "La Passione secondo A.R.T.O." - RGB46 - Rome, Italy [www.rgb46.it]

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "OUTSIDE - An italian trip on visual art" - Fasslagerhalle - Gewerbehof, Berlin

2007----------------------Collective exhibition - "Museo Bazar" - Arch -Galleria delle cose - Roma

2006----------------------Personal exhibition - "L'imbocco rigido del mio intestino" (Operamara - Epilogo) - Forte prenestino, Roma

2006----------------------Personal exhibition - "La testa fracassa" - Studio Caronte, Roma [http://www.francescofragapane.org]

2006----------------------Estate celestiniana - Dipingeremo 2006 ex-tempore di pittura - Sulmona, eremo di celestino quinto - Menzione della critica [http://michikovede.blogspot.com]

2006----------------------Collective exhibition - W.O.B.D. - Alpheus, Roma [http://www.wobd.net/]

2006----------------------Collective exhibition  - Galleria Paradiso - Rab, Croazia. [http://www.makek-paradiso.hr]

2006----------------------Collective exhibition  - “Maggio Illustrato”. Spazio espositivo B5, Rome. [http://www.bertanicinque.it]

2006 ---------------------Theatre - Creation of a fiberglass mask for Enzo Cosimi's new Theater play "Hell...Yeah" (First creation of the MUSIC project - Trilogy of sound). [http://www.enzocosimi.com]

 

2006 ---------------------Theatre – “I Capelli della santa”. Performance within the Butoh Festival ‘Trasform’azioni 2006’ With Samantha Marenzi, Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome. Set Design. [http://www.teatrofuriocamillo.com]

2006 ---------------------A.R.T.O. - double personal exhibition - within the Butoh Festival ‘Trasform’azioni 2006'- "Non si smette mai di camminare da soli (come un martello sulle rotule)". Teatro Furio Camillo, Roma.[http://www.a-r-t-o.com], [http://www.teatrofuriocamillo.com]

2006-----------------------A project based on “the Karamazov” by Dostojevski: “Litanies pour un retour" - Hotel de la lune. Angelo Mai, Rome. An installation within the ancient sub terrain of the building .[http://www.hoteldelalune.tk]

2006 ---------------------VE-NY - Collective exhibition - Tommaso Garavini, Zora Romanska, Isabella Ruzzene, KeziaT. Lu5A Not only contemporary art gallery, Venice. [http://www.lu7ia.com]

 

2006 ---------------------A.R.T.O. - double personal exhibition - "Non si smette mai di camminare da soli (come un martello sulle rotule)". Il Settimo Cerchio, Bologna, Italy [http://www.a-r-t-o.com], [http://www.ilsettimocerchio.com]

2006 ---------------------A.R.T.O. - double personal exhibition - "Non si smette mai di camminare da soli (come un martello sulle rotule)". B5 gallery, Rome, Italy [http://www.a-r-t-o.com][http://www.bertanicinque.it]

2005 ----------------------Foundation of the A.R.T.O. duo with Samantha Marenzi - Photographer

2005-----------------------A project based on “the Karamazov” by Dostojevski: “Le lait Miraculeuse de la Vierge”, "Magdalena" - Hotel de la lune. Angelo Mai, Rome. Two installations within the ancient sub terrain of the building .[http://www.hoteldelalune.tk]

 

2005-----------------------Theatre – “Il Trio in mi bemolle” by Eric Rohmer. Directed by di Raffaele Zanframundo. Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome. Set design.

      

2005----------------------Creation of a sculpture as a prize for the “Roma Teatro Festival 2005”. [http://www.romateatrofestival.com]

   

2005----------------------------Collective exhibition  - “Bertani Dai!”. Spazio espositivo B5, Rome. [http://www.bertanicinque.it]

2005----------------------------Theatre – “Icaro fa Narciso – come inchiodati al cielo”. Performance and exhibition within the Butoh Festival ‘Trasform’azioni 2005’ With Samantha Marenzi and Alessandra Cristiani; live music by Massimo Lella, Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome.

        

2004----------------------------Illustration - “NERO Free Magazine”, second issue, Produzioni Nero, soc. Coop. a.r.l. Illustrations.

   

2004----------------------------Design - Starts working full time as a designer with Coop. Soc. Int. Zingari 59. Production of objects made out of recycled and reused materials. [http://www.zingari59.it]

 

2004----------------------------Theatre – “Sam” by Gianni Casalnuovo, Directed by Gianni Casalnuovo and Lucia Calamaro. Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome. Set Design.

         

2004---------------------------Creation of a sculpture as a prize for the Roma Teatro Festival 2004. [http://www.romateatrofestival.com]

    

2004----------------------------Stayed six months in France (Puygaillard de Quercy, 82800). Design and construction of a playground game: “il Ragno, la giostra rovescia” (The Spider)

        

2004----------------------------Personal exhibition - “Spannung 1/2 – La rappresentazione di un momento qualunque nei pensieri di una mente qualunque”, Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome.

   

2003---------------------------Creation of a sculpture as a prize for the Roma Teatro Festival 2003. [http://www.romateatrofestival.com]

  

2003--------------------------Cinema – Production design for ‘In-Loop', short movie. Director Fabian Ribezzo. Photography by Federico Schlatter. Produced by Pablo S.r.L., Rome, Italy.

        

2003--------------------------Trash day – Cultural Happening for children based on the sensibilization to reuse and recycle waste materials. organization by Federambiente, Padova Fiere, Padova, Italy. -Design and construction of three different structures within the “fiera”.

 

2003---------------------------Design - “Il Settimo Cerchio”, Piercing and Tattoo Studio, Bologna, Italy. -Interior and graphic design. [http://www.ilsettimocerchio.com]

        

2003---------------------------7° MIF - Mostar Intercultural Festival, Mostar, Bosnia Herzegovina. Design and construction of an interactive labyrinth.

2003---------------------------Theatre - Author of the theatre performance “Operamara”. With Debora Pappalardo, Anastasia Sciuto, Igor Bacovich. Inside the Festival “Artinconnessione”, Villaggio Globale, Rome, Italy.

 

2003-------------------------Personal Exhibition -  “Operamara parte III - la sublimazione - un dibattito tra giudici del proprio destino”. Ass. Granma, Rome, Italy. Music performance with “Concrete”, hardcore band. [http://www.granma.cc]

   

2003-----------------------------Personal Exhibition  - “Operamara parte II - dissonanze rivoltanti l’ultimo splendente respiro”. Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome, Italy.

 

2003------------------------------Theatre – Inside the Butoh Festival ‘Trasform’azioni’ – ‘Mastico Cenere’ with Samantha Marenzi,‘In Distanza’ with Manuela Giovagnetti. Set design. Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome.

2003------------------------------Organization of ‘Cartavetrata’ - season of exhibitions at Furio Camillo Theatre. Rome, Italy.

2003------------------------------Theatre – ‘Messa Grande Minore’ by Diego Gullo. Directed by Raffaele Zanframundo. Ass. Cult. Anticaja e Petrella, Rome, Italy. Set design.

     

2002-------------------------------Trash day - Cultural Happening for children based on the sensibilization to reuse and recycle waste materials, organized by Federambiente. Cantieri Culturali della Zisa, Palermo, Italy. -Design and construction of two big scale musical instruments by reusing and reassembling an old car (percussive instrument) and an old boat (contrabass). [http://www.zingari59.it]

    

2002--------------------------------Theatre – ‘Altrove nel Paese di Dentro’, Butô dance company “Lios”, Castel S.Angelo, Rome, Italy. Set design.

2002--------------------------------Theatre – ‘La luna di Salomè’, by Debora Pappalardo, Anfiteatro Romano di Albano, Albano Laziale, Italy. Set design.

        

2002-------------------------------Theatre – ‘Mi volete dire cosa ci faccio qui?’, by Emilia Martinelli, Olimpico Theatre, Rome, Italy. Set design.

2002-------------------------------Theatre – ‘Altrove nel paese di dentro’, Butô dance company “Lios”. Furio Camillo Theatre, Rome. Set design.

2002-------------------------------Theatre – “Un’ Italo-American a’ Rome”, by Aureliano Amadei. Arte del Teatro Studio, Rome. Set design.

2002------------------------------Cinema – ‘Il Fiore’, short Film by Antonio Tozzi. Photography by Andrea Doria. Set design.

2002------------------------------Collective exhibition -“Disegno - Esposizione”, Ass. Cult. GRANMA, Rome.

2001------------------------------Theatre - ‘Mi volete dire cosa ci faccio qui?’, by Emilia Martinelli, Mercadante Theatre, Naples, Italy. Set design.

2001-----------------------------Theatre - 'Unamunda’, by Aureliano Amadei. Arte del Teatro Studio, Rome. Set design.

2000-----------------------------Cinema – ‘La Perdita’, short movie by Lucille Cristaldi, Produced by Enzimi Festival. Rome. Set design.

2000-----------------------------Collective Exhibition -“Lo scandalo dello spirito”- Annuale d’Arte 2000. MUSPAC (Museo Sperimentale d’Arte Contemporanea), L’Aquila, Italy.

1999-----------------------------Collective Exhibition -“Visioninverse, Le Immagini Come Visioni”, Villaggio Globale, Rome, Italy.

1997-----------------------------Planning and organization of “La Sindrome Del Topo”, multimedia happening; Ex-Snia Viscosa Industries, Rome,

1997-----------------------------Collective Exhibition - XXVI Biennale d’Arte di Alatri, Alatri, Rome.

1995 - 2005------------------Music - Singer of 'Concrete'. [http://www.myspace.com/operamara]