Claudio Parmeggiani Biography
Claudio Parmiggiani (1943 - ) was born in Luzzara, Reggio Emilia, in 1943 and decided to enroll at the Institute of Fine Arts in Modena in 1958. He regularly visited Giorgio Morandi whose influence was more ethical than stylistic. His debut exhibition was held in 1965 at the Feltrinelli bookshop in Bologna. It is the moment of Gruppo '63 and the poets who gathered around "Il Verri" by Luciano Anceschi, to whom Parmiggiani will be very attached, and who will contribute to creating the atmosphere of intense collaboration between visual art and poetry.
Unclassifiable, it borders on both Arte Povera and Conceptual Art, while reaching a singular and unparalleled position in the modern panorama. Parmiggiani was able to create an original, unique, but at the same time profoundly universal language, deliberately keeping himself away from the "current" of contemporary art and from groups or movements.
Dust, ash, fire, air, shadow, color, light, stone, glass, steel, marble and blood are its materials. Bells, butterflies, books, boats, stars, monuments and other unique objects are created by putting together pieces of the world; in their tragic beauty, these objects appear strangely familiar to us.
His vast corpus of works has been exhibited in numerous solo and collective exhibitions in Italy and abroad: in 1992 he held a solo exhibition at the Pac in Milan, followed by a long series of solo exhibitions abroad at the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna (1987 ), at the Museum of Modern Art in Strasbourg (1987). Invited several times to the Venice Biennale (1972, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1995), his exhibition activity was very active in the 1990s, when in 1997 he intervened at the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris and in 1995 a major retrospective was presented at MAMCO in Geneva.
