Born in 1967 into a family of pipe organbuilders, where it was common to see materials bow to the primacy of art. He began to paint as a child with the Genoese artist Nereo Ferraris (1911-1975) who lived with his aunt, Maria Pia Pinchi, a fundamental figure in his cultural and artistic development. Between 1989 and 1996 he came into contact with Aurelio De Felice (1915-1996), who suggested to focus his artistic development by drawing on his own expressive world. This led him to what Maurizio Coccia has defined as Pincbau, that is to say, the construction of works scrap materials resulting from the restoriation of antique pipe organs or from those built by his own family.
He began his public career in Foligno, at the invitation of Foligno’s Municipality, with the exhibition “Organbuilding Rebirth Project” (May-June 2011) held at the Palazzo Trinci Museum under the curatorship of Maurizio Coccia. In June 2011 he participated, upon the invitation of Vittorio Sgarbi, in the Venice Biennale-Umbria Pavilion, under the curatorship of Gianluca Marziani. In October and December 2011 he was in Basel, where he exhibited at the Zwinglihaus Cultural Center and at the Blackwall Gallery under the curatorship of Maurizio Coccia.
From June to October 2012 he exhibited his own sculpture “David” in Spoleto at the “+50• Sculture in Città” exhibition during the Festival dei Due Mondi under the curatorship of Gianluca Marziani. This sculpture was part of the installation “David and Golyath” with Cristiano Carotti and the original soundtrack by Alessandro Deflorio. At the end of the exhibition the work was donated to the city of Spoleto and was acquired in 2014 by the Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive Museum.
In May/June 2014 he held his second double personal “Duetto in Materia di Musica” together with Domenica Regazzoni in Milan at the Artespressione Gallery, under the curatorship of Matteo Pacini.
In November 2015 he participated, at the Complesso Monumentale del Vittoriano in Rome, with the double personal "Tra Materia ed Anima, tra Memoria e Tempo" togheter with A.T. Anghelopoulos, curated by Claudio Strinati.
In February/March 2016 he was in Bari, where he exhibited at the Ninni Esposito Arte Contemporanea under the curatorship of Francesca Briganti. In May he's in Florence at the Galerie Clichy curated by Lauretta Colonnelli. Always in May he held his first exhibition in Bruxelles at the XNOVODESIGN under curatorship of Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia.
In January 2017 he exhibited at Honos Art Gallery in Rome with the solo show "Tutto si concede a chi porta Luce" curated by Gianluca Marziani.
Next Exhibition
Treviso, Museo Bailo, April/May 2019
His works are in Museums, Foundations and Private Collections in: Bari, Basel, Bruxelles, Dubai, Florence, Liegi, Madrid (AMA Fondation), Milano, New York, Padua, Rome, Spoleto (Palazzo Collicola Museum), Verbier, Teheran.
They wrote about him: Francesca Briganti, Marta Calcagno, Sabina Caligiani, Maurizio Coccia, Lauretta Colonnelli, Vittoria Garibaldi, Lucia Genga, Roberta Macchia, Gianluca Marziani, Valeria Molaioli, Matteo Pacini, Irene Niosi, Stefano Masi, Vittorio Sgarbi, Chiara Silvestri, Claudio Strinati, Alessia Vergari.
He works with the following galleries: Die Mauer Prato, Borghini Arte Contemporanea Rome, ADD-art Spoleto
He lives in Rome where he works in his studio in Piazza Campitelli
In 2018 he opened his Swiss studio in Biel/Bienne
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
2011
FOLIGNO, Dada Gallery • 6 in Art • curator David Pompili
SPOLETO, Museo Collicola • Venice Biennale • curator Vittorio Sgarbi & Gianluca Marziani
2012
AMELIA, Palazzo Farrattini • Casamostra • curator Sara Mancini & Flaminia Scauso
PRATO, Fattoria Bacchereto • Synthesis • curator Piergiorgio Fornello
ROME, Maison Carbonell • Casamostra • curator Sara Mancini & Flaminia Scauso
SPOLETO, Museo Collicola • +50 Sculptures in the City • curator Gianluca Marziani
2013
ASSISI, Sala delle Volte • LIFE • curator Laura Bartoli
FOLIGNO, Palazzo Trinci • Sguardi Sonori, performance “Closer”• with Marco Pantaleoni
and The Right Words of Confucio
MILAN, Politecnico • Energia • curator Stefano Frascarelli & Laura Bartoli
ROME, Spazio Fabindia • Anime Organiche • curator Tiziana Todi
TERNI, Palazzo Primavera • Vanity Art • curators Sergio Coppi and Chiara Silvestri
2014
ROME, Galleria Vittoria • an introduction to Affordable Art Fair Milan• curator T.Todi
MILAN, Affordable Art Fair 2014, Installation "Codice Rosso" for the main entrance
MONTEFALCO,…ma’ showroom • 20 e-venti • curators Alessia Carlino and David Pompili
VERONA, Art Verona Fair • Interferenze • curators Add-Art and Francesca Briganti
2015
COMO, CCIA • L’evoluzione BIO-logica dell’Arte • curator Roberta Macchia
MONTEFALCO, Museo Civico • Il tempo si fa forma • curator Antonio Persichini
MILAN, Expo 2015 • L’evoluzione BIO-logica dell’Arte • curator Roberta Macchia
MILAN, Galleria Il Vicolo • Contemporary Art Auction • with Mirko Baricchi, Antonio De Luca and Matilde Bianchi
PRATO, Galleria Die Mauer • Sequenza per un giorno d’inverno • curator Luca Sposato
2017
VERONA, ART VERONA • with ADD-art Gallery of Spoleto
FLORENCE, Galleria Tornabuoni & Busajo Onluss• Contemporary Art Auction•curator
Philippe Daverio
2018
LUCCA, Lucca Art Fair • curators Lorenzo Rossi and Alessia Vergari, ADD-art Gallery
PERUGIA, Museo Palazzo della Penna • Art Monsters – Articolo3 • curator Gianluca Marziani
ROME, Teatro India • Roma Sogna • curator Andrea Bezziccheri and Ludovica Palmieri
SOLO/DOUBLE EXHIBITIONS
2011
FOLIGNO, Palazzo Trinci • Organbuilding Rebirth Project• curator Maurizio Coccia
BASEL, Zwinglihaus Cultural Center • Bauhaus Rebirth Project • curator Maurizio Coccia
BASEL, Blackwall Gallery • Pincbau • curator Maurizio Coccia
2012
ROME, Electric Art Cafe` •Tug of war • curators Sara Mancini and Flaminia Scauso
2013
ASSISI, Minigallery •Dimensioni Parallele • with Armando Moriconi• curator Francesca
Briganti
FOLIGNO, Palazzo Candiotti • It’s a Jungle in here • curator Francesca Briganti
PERUGIA, S. Stefano • Anime e maschere • curator Alessia Vergari
ROME, Fabindia • Anime Organiche • curator Tiziana Todi
2014
ROME, Sala Baldini • Soul Stories • curators Tiziana and Tiziano Todi
NARNI, Sala del Teatro • Biennal Prize Ars Palliorum• winner 2015
MILAN, Artespressione • Duetto in materia di musica • with DomenicaRegazzoni • curator
Matteo Pacini
SPOLETO, ADD Art Gallery • Interferenze #1 • curator Francesca Briganti
2015
ASSISI, Sala delle Volte • Arte a passi di gambero • curator Stefano Frascarelli
FOLIGNO, Studio Marchionni-Romagnoli • Fathers • double personal with David Pompili
ROME, Vittoriano•Tra materia e anima, tra memoria e tempo•with Anghelopoulos•curator
Claudio Strinati.
ROME, Spazio Bartoli Restauro • Extended Play • curator Alessandra Bertuzzi
2016
BARI, Galleria Ninni Esposito • Levitas V/s Gravitas• curator Francesca Briganti
FLORENCE, Libreria Clichy • Artisti in galleria • curator Lauretta Colonnelli
BRUXELLES, Xnovodesign •Tales from the shack • curators Monica Speranza and Sveva Manfredi
Zavaglia
2017
ROME, Honos Art Gallery • Tutto si concede a chi porta luce • curator Gianluca Marziani
ROME, Borghini Arte Contemporanea • Trasparenze • with Benedetta Galli • curator Irene
Niosi
FLORENCE, Fornaciai Art Gallery • Ogni 21 grammi • curator Stefano Masi
SPOLETO, Arte Tribale • La bellezza delle forme dal tribale al contemporaneo• curator
Carmen Moreno
2018
SPOLETO, ADD-art gallery • Trasparenze, double solo show with Benedetta Galli • curator Irene Niosi
ROME, galleria Eitch Borromini • Oltre l’apparenza • double solo show with Paolo Vannuccini, curator Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia
BEVAGNA (PG), Museo Civico, L’incommensurabile valore dei ritorni, curator Alessandra Bertuzzi
HANNOVER, Best Window, Urban intervention with Simone Haug
ROMA, Studio Campitelli, Albedo/Nigredo, doppia personale con Giulia Manfredi a cura di ADD-art
CATALOGUES
Organbuilding Rebirth Project• Maurizio Coccia, Giuseppe Barile Editore, Irsina, 2011
Padiglione 150 anni Unità d’Italia, Biennale di Venezia 2011•Skira Editore, Milan, 2011
Tra materia ed anima, tra memoria e tempo • Claudio Strinati, Gangemi Editore, Rome, 2015
Galerie Clichy-Artisti in libreria”• Lauretta Colonnelli • Edizioni Clichy, Florence, 2016
Lo stato dell’Arte in Umbria • Gianluca Marziani e Massimo Mattioli, Ed. Piacere Magazine,
Perugia, 2011
+50 Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive • Gianluca Marziani, Dogma Art Communication, Spoleto,
2012
Sguardi Sonori 2013 • AAVV, Faticart, Perugia, 2013
Interferenze • Edizioni ADD-Art, Spoleto, 2014
Duetto in materia di musica • Matteo Pacini, Artespressione, Milan, 2014
Tra materia ed anima, tra memoria e tempo • Lauretta Colonnelli e Claudio Strinati,
Gangemi Editore, Rome, 2015
Galerie Clichy-Artisti in libreria • Lauretta Colonnelli, Edizioni Clichy, Florence, 2016
Percorsi d’arte in Italia • Giorgio di Genova ed Enzo Le Pera, Rubbettino Editore, Soveria
Mannelli, 2016
Misericordiae Opera• AAVV, Fabrizio Fabbri Editore, Perugia, 2016
Ogni 21 grammi • Stefano Masi, Fornaciai Art Gallery, Florence, 2017
L’incommensurabile valore dei ritorni, Alessandra Bertuzzi, Edizioni ADD-art, Spoleto, 2018
Oltre l’apparenza, gioco a due nelle stanze dell’arte, Sveva Manfredi Zavaglia, Maggioli ed. Sant’Arcangelo di Romagna, 2018
Andrea Pinchi, AA.VV., Monography/Collana Art, Edizioni ADD-art, Spoleto, 2018