Paolo Ceribelli

Paolo Ceribelli is born on July 8, 1978.  He starts his artistic journey with a series of works focusing on the stylization of common everyday gestures; he then experiments with oil – painting with his hands – and later he devotes himself to casting plaster. In 1998 the one-man show Ignoti collects his work. In 1999 he cooperates with a group of writers and non-profit associations, and together they work on a  photographic project on mural art in disused industrial areas. This experience brings him back to working on canvas using new materials, silicon and wall stucco among them.  The results are three abstract projects Macchie di vita, Attirare lo sguardo, Solchi Materici  in 2000. The abstract project Attirare lo sguardo, with its  large use of spray acrylic colors and silicon is displayed in two exhibitions in Italy and abroad. In the 2003 Superm-Art project the attention on daily gestures, caught in their repetitiveness, is expressed in a mixed technique that uses collage of retail advertising materials and acrylic paint. The year 2006 is a creative turning point towards a new artistic research in the area of techniques and themes.  Soldiersis born. Soldiers  draws together clashing written statementsand easily recognizable plastic objects, which work as visual stimuli that go beyond the playful aspect of the object. Playing with toy soldiers, a favorite pastime of children from the most diverse social, cultural, and generational backgrounds, is very far from being innocuous, in this respect resembling most team games that to date are still part of juvenile and adult lives.  There is no use denying that many of them are characterized by different measures of brutality.Paolo magnifies tenfold and underscores these valences immersing the diminutive anthropomorphic sculptures in monochromatic baths and making them resurface as unwitting protagonists of his works, massing them, making them uniform, arranging them on the canvas so as to form maps and territories, flags and alignments, targets and playing fields. There is a bodily movement in the manipulation of the material and especially in the arrangement of the tiny soldier-figures on the canvas to which the artist accords great importance, because in this “doing” every structure takes on a meaning and every shaping of space incarnates variations of values. His works are plastic, three-dimensional, and they transcend the bounds of classical frontal appreciation to become tested and evaluatedfrom more points of view. 

 

 

Paolo Ceribelli- 08/07/1978 lives and works in Milan.

Solo exhibitions:

1998:

Exibitions Space San Michele, Ignoti, Pavia,Italy

2001:

Officine Stendhal, Attirare lo sguardo, Milano, Italy

2003:

Italiano Home Store, Superm-art, Los Angeles, USA

2006: 

Italiano Home Store, Soldiers, Los Angeles, USA

2009:

Galleria San Lorenzo, Take me home, Milano,Italy

2010:

Galleria Glauco Cavaciuti, Toy Soldiers Era, Milano, Italy

 

Group exhibitions:

2001:

Italiano Home Store, Group exhibition, Los Angeles, USA

2004: 

Officine Stendhal, Group exhibition,  Milano, Italy

2007:

Galleria San Lorenzo, Group exhibition,  Santa Giusta,Italy

2007:

Galleria San Lorenzo, Group exhibition,  Artimino,Italy

2008:

Galleria San Lorenzo, Group exhibition,  Santa Giusta,Italy

2008:

Arteingenua, Art prize exhibition,Brescia,Italy

2008:

Galleria Guido Iemmi, First act-Second act, Milano,Italy

2008:

Galleria San Lorenzo, Group exhibition,  Artimino,Italy

2009:

Galleria Glauco Cavaciuti, Milano,Italy

2009:

Galleria San Lorenzo, Group exhibition,  Lido di Camaiore,Italy

2009:

Galleria San Lorenzo, Group exhibition,  Santa Giusta,Italy

2009:

Galleria San Lorenzo,Group exhibition, Artimino,Italy

                                                                               2009:

Arteingenua, Breakfast, Brescia,Italy

2010:

Esxence, Museo della Permanente, Mlano

2010:

The White Cellar, Ex Palazzo Fiat, Torino, Italy

2011:

Affordable Art Fair, Galleria Glauco Cavaciuti, Milano, Italy

 

Prize:

2008:

Take me home – 1^st International Arteingenua Prize -“Impatto_arte,luogo+relazioni” – Short-listed work.