Donato Piccolo is one of the most remarkable artists of the young Italian art scene.
Mixing science, technology, art and philosophy, his artwork evolves along multiple lines of research. His work concerning the “artistic confinement” of cyclones, storms and hurricanes contributed very early on to his international recognition.
According to the artist, images and representations of the world – whether they originate from the domain of science or the arts – are first and foremost projections and constructions of the mind – against the backdrop of Nature that remains an unfathomable mystery.
Thus, throughout the mechanical ballet of his work, his main idea is to achieve resonance with physical processes rather than to attempt to explain them.
Donato Piccolo studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and at the University of Philosophy. Before his career, he was an assistant to numerous artists, among whom Giacinto Cerone and Sol Le Witt.
His friendship with Maurizio Mochetti, his spiritual predecessor, as well as his discovery of the works of Klein, Fontana, Beuys and Gino Dominicis (whom he calls “The Magicians”) were crucial to his personal development.
Donato Piccolo regularly exhibits in Italy as well as abroad and has already participated twice in the Biennale of Venice. His works can be found in many private and public collections around the world.
V.A.F. Foundation (DE)
Galerie Mario Mazzoli (DE)
Sieppermann Collection (DE)
Fondation Francès (FR)
Piltzer Collection (CH)
Rayapunto Collection (ES)
Primo Marella Gallery (IT)
Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery (IT)
Perrella associated Studio (IT)
Studio Stefania Miscetti (IT)
Kick off Group Collection (IT)
Macro Museum (IT)
Mazzoli Collection (IT)
Fondazione per l’arte Roma (IT)
Mart Museum (IT)
Finstrall Foundation (IT-DE)
Armellini Foundation (IT)
Alighiero Boetti Foundation (IT)
Nomas Foundation (IT)
Bvlgari Collection (IT)
La Gioconda che cammina, Galerie Italienne, Paris (FR)
Project room #7 | Imprévisible, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan (IT)
Thinking the Unthinkable, Neon Festival, Dundee (UK)
Human+. Il futuro della nostra specie, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Roma (IT)
Thinking the Unthinkable, Maxxi, Media Art Festival, Rome (IT)
Thinking the Unthinkable, Media Center, Cyfest, New York (US)
Liquid Thought, Seno Gallery, Milan (IT)
Aritmosferica, Galleria dell’Accademia di Belle Arti, Macerata (IT)
Museum of Guttuso, Bagheria (IT)
Thinking the Unthinkable, Youth Center of Hermitage, Hermitage, San Petersburg (RU)
Unnatural, cur. by Dayalis Gonzalez Perdomo, Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales. Museum in Habana, Cuba (CU)
Reality reversible, cur. by Smart, Alluneednow, Shanghai (CN)
Butterfly Effect, cur. by Isabella Indolfi, Church SS Giovanni e Paolo, Spoleto (IT)
Inside Tesla, cur. by David Rosenberg, Irène Laub Gallery (FEIZI), Brussels (BE)
Holistic, cur. by David Rosenberg, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin (DE)
Spiderman, cur. by G.Gigliotti and A. Dambruoso, MACRO, Rome (IT)
Butterfly effect, Paolo Maria Deanesi Gallery, Rovereto (IT)
Instabile reversibile, cur. by Marc Wellmann, Galerie Mario Mazzoli, Berlin (DE)
Reversible Mechanisms, cur. by Lidya Pribisova, Space Gallery, Bratislava (SK)
Meccanismi d’Instabilità, cur. by Anne-Marie Sauzeau Boetti and Laura Cherubini, Festival dei due Mondi, Casa Romana, Spoleto (IT)
Avant et Devenir, Gallery Riff Art Projects, Paris – Istanbul (TR)
WORTER, cur. by Mario de Candia, Stefania Miscetti Gallery, Rome (IT)
Housekeeping, cur. by Raffaele Gavarro, Soligoart Project, Rome (IT)
IL VENTO, IL MARE, LA PIOGGIA, Galerie Italienne, Paris (FR)
Politics of Discontent, cur. by Jonathan Sullam, Irène Laub Gallery, Brussels (BE)
VOGLIO PROPRIO VEDERE – Musica da guardare, arte da Ascoltare, Mazzoli Gallery, Modena (IT)
Interpretations – Cyfest 2017, Scientific Research Museum of Russian Academy of Arts, St Petersbourg (RU)
Silenzi D’Alberi, Museum Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo (IT)
K11 Museum, Shanghai (CN)
Voglio proprio, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena (IT)
Blast!, Hima Art Space, Shanghai (CN)
Cataclisma, explosion in LungoCrati, collaboration project with Shingo Inao, BoCs, Cosenza (IT)
Impatto 2.0, cur. by L.Celeghin and I.Magni, Museum of Este, Este (IT)
Praestigium Italia II, Cini Foundation Venice, Venice (IT)
La nature non Mente, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan (IT)
Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton collection, cur. by A.Bruciati, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (IT)
Luce retta, calore freddo, suono visibile, feat Maurizio Mochetti, Bibo’s Gallery, Todi (IT)
Vestige, Fondation Francès, Senlis (FR)
TRANSIENTE, Node Festival, Galleria Civica, Modena (IT)
Un rumore bianco, Assab One, Milano (IT)
Turbulence II, Villa Empain, Boghossian Foundation, Brussels (BE)
Le ragioni della pittura. Esiti e prospettive di un medium, Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Palazzo de Sanctis, Castelbasso (IT)
The naturalists, Castelluccio di Pienza-La Foce, Chianciano Terme (IT)
DIGITAL LIFE-Liquid Landscapes, MACRO Museum, Testaccio, Rome (IT)
The Genesys, Beyond Museum, Seoul (KR)
A sign on the road said: take us to MADRE!, Helper, New York (USA)
Periplo della scultura contemporanea 3, Musma, Matera (IT)
BIOS, George Kolbe Museum, Berlin (DE)
V. Premio Fondazione VAF. Italienische Kunst Heute, Stadtgalerie Kiel and Museum Biedermann, Donauschingen (DE)
Valentini Contemporary, cur. by Damiana Leoni, Palazzo Valentini, Rome (IT)
Costruzione di una metafisica dell’assenza, cur. da Elena Abbiatici e Valentina G. Levy, Rome (IT)
Artista in residenza presso ISCP, New York (USA)
After the crash, cur. by Camilla Boemio, Orto Botanico, Rome (IT)
Affrontare il rosso/Facing the red, cur. by Elena Giuglia Rossi, Café Europe/Centro di arte contemporanea, Rome (IT)
Buon Domani/ a better tomorrow, Studio Stefania Miscetti, Rome (IT)
Entre Glace et Neige. Processi ed energie della natura, cur. da Laura Cherubini and Glorianda Cipolla, Centre Saint Benin, Aosta (IT)
Take the Space, cur. by Patrizia Ferri, Palazzo della Vicaria, Trapani (IT)
Physical Conditions gallery crawl, cur. by Murray Horne, Wood Street Gallery, Pittsburgh (USA)
Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte Contemporanea, workshop cur. by Gail Chocraine and Luca Vitone, Torino (IT)
Amore e Psiche, cur. by Miriam Mirolla, Rocca Albornoziana, Spoleto (IT)
Usine de reves, cur. by Cecilia Casorati and Sabrina Vedovotto, 26cc Center of Contemporary Art, Rome (IT
Well Darling, I act, Artwork con Maurizio Mochetti, Studio Boetti Gallery, Rome (IT)
Simboli di Ferro, Falce e Martello, Museum of Contemporary Art, L’Aquila (IT)
Le temps au temps, Riff Art Project Gallery, Strasbourg (FR)
Here come the Rolling bones, cur. by Piero Pala and Benedetta di Loreto, Studio Boetti Gallery, Rome (IT)
Sex is a pain in the ass, cur. by Piero Pala, Cinema Avorio, Rome (IT)
Invite, curated by Benedetta di Loreto e Damiana Leoni, installazione presso “Bulgari” a Rome (IT)
The Cross, Public sculpture, Parco Maria Callas, Sirmione- Lago di Garda (IT)
Memoria: tracce, cur. by Piero Pala – Palazzo Rialtosantambrogio, Rome (IT)
Nerve, cur. by Mario de Candia and Patrizia Ferri, Huynnart studio, Rome (IT)
K-Event, Performance cur. by Fabio Cavallucci, KunstArt, Bolzano (IT)
Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove, cur. by Antonio Arèvalo and Cristiano Seganfreddo – Museo di San Benedetto del Tronto (IT)
Contemporaneamente, cur. by Bruno di Marino and Patrizia Ferri, Artefiera Project – Parma (IT)
In Memoria di Valerio Riva, Maretti Prize, Repubblica di San Marino (IT)
Cuore 2/Dirty, cur. by Manolo Morollòn, Galeria Rayapunto , Salamanca (IT)
LELLO SECONDO MORETTI, Art Project, Rome (IT)
Il giornale di Un Solo Giorno, Performance with sculpture, Rome (IT)
17e Festival international de l’ima cur. Valentino Catricalà Museo de Arte de Caldas, Manizales (CO)
Media Art Festival, MAXXI, Museo Nazionale delle Arti (IT)
Media Art Festival, MAXXI Museum, Rome (IT)
Art Brussels, Booth A04, Brussels (BE)
Yia Art Fair, Brussels (BE)
Art Brussels, Brussels (BE)
Art Brussels, Brussels, (BE)
Digital Life, Romaeuropa festival, Macro, Roma (IT)
54th Venice Biennale, Padiglione Italia-Lazio, Palazzo Venezia, Rome (IT)
Artefiera Bologna, Roma-The road to contemporary art, Art Amsterdam (NL)
11 Mostra Internacional Gas Natural Fenosa, MACUF, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Gas Natural Fenosa in Coruña (IT)
Contemporary Art Instanbul, Istanbul (TR)
52nd Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia (IT)
Biennale Adriatica Arti Nuove, cur. by Antonio Arèvalo and Cristiano Seganfreddo – Museo di San Benedetto del Tronto (IT)
3rd Biennale Internazionale del Libro d’artista, cur. by Mario de Candia, Loredana Rea, Ivana D’agostino, Cassino (IT)
Short Movie Festival, Jury Prize (Abel Ferrara) for “L’8 vizio” in collaboration wirh Claudio Stirlani, Rome (IT)
Prize Armellini Foandation, scultura in Piazza Mondo, Rome (IT)
The Swatch art peace hotel, Shanghai (CN)
