Massimo Ghiotti Biography
Massimo Ghiotti was born on 19 May 1938 in Turin, where he still lives and works. After abandoning his studies in Economics and Commerce, he realized his dream of studying art at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. He obtained a diploma in Painting with the well-known artists Francesco Menzio, Mario Calandri and Piero Martina, and then specialized in Sculpture with Sandro Cerchi and Albino Galvano.
In 1973 he began teaching Figure and Modeled Ornament at the 1st State Artistic High School of Turin. At the urging of Sandro Cerchi he exhibited his first sculptures at the Galleria La Minima in Turin in 1972 and participated in eight sculpture competitions, winning seven. Initially dedicated to figurative and portraiture, his talent led him towards an expressionistic interpretation of modeling.
In 1981 he presented his new bronze sculptures at the Galleria Borgogna in Milan, with external geometric shapes and extreme internal dialectics, also given by the contrast of the positive and negative of the two faces which, when crossed, allow the sculpture to be "experienced" from 'internal. He continued to evolve, enriching his poetics placed on the border between technique and culture.
In 1986 he returned to Turin where he exhibited his "Pensieri su carta" at the Studio-Laboratorio gallery. In 1994, following a national competition, he was awarded the Chair of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts by the Ministry of Education.
After ten years, Ghiotti returned to exhibit in his hometown on the occasion of the publication of his monograph edited by Pierre Restany. In 2000, he created important monumental works for public clients and exhibited in a series of solo exhibitions in the main museums of Eastern European capitals, such as the Vilnius Sculpture Park, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Moscow, the Foreign Art Museum in Riga and the MK Ciurlonis National Museum in Kaunas.
In 2007, he held a solo show of monumental works in the Courtyard of Honor of the Rectorate of the University of Turin, becoming the first artist to exhibit there and in 2008 he inaugurated his exhibition of monumental works and small sculptures formed in Bayonne, in the city route in the Bonnat museum.
