My World, my life, paintings, photographs & more
My World, my life, paintings, photographs & more
Born in Rome, in 1969 lives and works in Rome.
Artist, photographer, and digital evangelist, he paints, photographs, and has been exhibiting since the mid-’90s. From 2006 he lived for two years in California, then for a brief period he moved to Paris where he paints, photographs, designs performances, his most famous Rebirth, which took place in 2016 at Place de la République. Today, he lives and works in Rome, in his studio-house-gallery known as Le Petit Atelier.
He has exhibited at the MACRO Museum Asylum in Rome, with the project “Where is the future?”, at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, also in Rome, with the exhibition “The Shining Consciousness”, moreover he has entered the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art of Vibo Valentia LIMEN ; in addition to other galleries in Italy and abroad.
Massimo Scognamiglio stands as a poignant figure in the landscape of contemporary art, his works a testament to the profound layers of human introspection. Without resorting to hyperbole, it is evident that his art delves into the crevices of mental unease while simultaneously radiating a palpable life force. Scognamiglio’s oeuvre is a journey through the psyche, with series like “Gli Strappi” (1998-2004) which laid bare the raw edges of human emotion, and “Ciclo delle Stanze” (2008-today), where each room becomes a chapter of an introspective narrative.
In 2023 and 2022 he enters the five finalists of the prestigious Exibart Prize.
Massimo Scognamiglio is represented worldwide by Supermarket.
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"A site-specific installation, 30 works on paper and five canvases: Massimo Scognamiglio transforms the spaces of Casa 94 Gallery into a visionary and ironic psychiatric pavilion
Glamorous with a classic touch, a fashion with a pictorial character, in short, visions that unite the atmospheres of fashion and the expression of art. And it is from this mixture that a kind of loop is triggered, a Larsen effect between stage, photography and painting. The author of this short circuit is Massimo Scognamiglio, photographer and artist, whose works will be on display from December 17th to 19th, 2021, at the Casa 94 Gallery spaces, at via Placido Zurla 94, in Rome. "Rips and Prophecies" is the title of the solo exhibition, which presents a series of works on paper from 2021 and on canvas from 2008, turning the two exhibition halls into an evocative and suggestive place: the departments of an imaginary psychiatric hospital, populated by outcasts, clowns, punks, lonely men, and unheard Cassandras. It was precisely the psychiatric departments that were frequently visited by Massimo Scognamiglio for a previous photographic work, which re-emerges in the installation in Rome.
ROME & LONDON
BECAUSE
GROUP SHOW
Dorothy Circus Gallery Rome
BECAUSE REPRISE
Dorothy Circus Gallery London
"With the exhibition BECAUSE - "Perchè Sì", the DCG changes course from its traditional curatorial line, staging a collective exhibition with the aim of raising a cry in the form of art to respond to the absurdity of the world we live in. For this exhibition, the Dorothy Circus Gallery has selected a group of artists with some of the most innovative and independent language in the art world, filling the void of a specific iconography of hyper-modern rebellion and its free representation in art. United in a body of cutting-edge works, the artists of BECAUSE create a new scenario of young and talented messengers of visual art that promote change.
The artists have been chosen for their innovative and daring artistic research, which reflects the gallery's goal of supporting new "voices" in the contemporary art scene and raising awareness about social issues.
Painful but never gloomy, always ironic and with a special light. (Exibart)
2023 November - Arte in Nuvola - Galleria Supermarket Rome
2023 June - Solo Exhibition Artwork Galley Rome
2023 - April BECAUSE Group Show Reprise Dorothy Circus Gallery London
2023 - March BECAUSE Group Show Dorothy Circus Gallery Rome
2023 - Blooming Contemporary Art Fair Bologna
2022 - Arte in Nuvola - Galleria Supermartek Rome
2021 - Strappi e Profezie /// Casa 94 Gallery Rome
2021 - I 12 Apostoli /// Takeawaygallery Rome
2019 - MACRO Museo di Arte Contemporanea Roma - Short film “Where is the future?”
2018 - Hawton Space, Rome
"Pensiero Stupendo" (part of the project Tales of humans in a landscape")
2018 - Imago Projects - Photo Festival, Orbetello
"Tales of humans in a landcape"
2018 - Palazzo Velli Expo, Rome.
"Atto Secondo", la collettiva di fotografia a cura della Takeawaygallery
2017 - Chiesa di Santa Maria di Costantinopoli Solo Exhibition
Punk Aristocracy by Carlotta Monteverde
2016 - Palazzo BUSCO Velli Solo Exhibition
curated by Katy Spurrell & Nicolas Ballario
2016 - Paris, Place de la Républque Performance & photographs REBIRTH
2016 - Takeawaygallery Solo Exhibition
Punk Aristocracy curated
by Carlotta Monteverde
2012 - VARCO Pigneto
Solo Exhibition AIDS NOT DEAD
2005 Museo Pecci di Prato Video Minuto
Special event Solo Exhibition - "Visual thoughts on fashion magazine" Prato
1998 Palazzo delle Esposizioni Roma
Collective Exhibition curated by Mariangela Shoether La Coscienza Luccicante
1999 - Explorer Coffee Gallery Collective Exhibition curated by Gianluca Marziani
1998 - Extra Gallery Solo Exhibition
Working on my next solo exhibition 2024:
the big canvases
“We lost everything / The Asylum”
Acrylic painting on canvas
300x200cm
December 2023
Big mouth series, find these works on SUPERMARTEK
“Rooms” Series 2024 find more at SUPERMARTEK
CHROMATIC LABYRINTH SERIES. Find these works at SUPERMARTEK
INTERVIEW / DCG
What do you believe to be the role and responsibility of the contemporary artist in society?
As an ar'st, my work revolves around exploring themes related to sexual freedom, fluidity, and the hidden soul within each individual. Behind the clenched eyes of my characters.
Through my art, I aim to inspire people to embrace their true selves and explore their innermost desires, regardless of societal pressures and expecta'ons. I want to encourage people to celebrate their individuality and express their unique identities freely, between fear and desire.
The concept of fluidity is partcularly important to me: through my works, I aim to explore (concealing and revealing) the essence of each one of us.
In my paintings, the message is not meant to be overt. The courage and social rebellion is in the eyes of the beholder.
Nevertheless, I believe that my work has the power to create change and promote acceptance of diverse iden''es, including fluid sexuality.
I see sexuality as a complex and mul'faceted aspect of human identity, and I believe that individuals should be free to express and explore their sexuality in whatever way feels authen'c to them.
Can you describe the relationship between your art and your message of freedom?
At the heart of my art lies the character of Square Smile, a whimsical figure who embodies the ideals of sexual freedom, fluidity, and self-expression. To me, Square Smile represents a pure and innocent devil, a bringer of light, desire, and dreams.
Through the character of Square Smile, I aim to promote a postitive and joyful approach to life and sexuality. Square Smile is a symbol of the hidden desires that lie within all of us.
Yellow heroes, women, men, and fantas'c animals are all characters that interact in my paintings, as an expression of both pain and joy, and always, always, always of struggle and rebellion.
How do you see your art as a tool for creating change and promoting acceptance of diverse identities?
I see the current trends in the art world as a mix of individualis'c, freedom-based themes prevalent in Western art, and a focus on cuteness, innocence, and childlike wonder in Kawaii art, which is a part of the Eastern artistic tradition.
My art lives between these two hemispheres, which are not two separate worlds but rather a singular global flow.
There is a further element of change in the vast and diffuse universe of image crea'on (of which the art world is a subset) that cannot be ignored: The AI Revolu'on.
I am fascinated (and have been using since the beginning) by the creatioon of images through AI and I believe there will be a global revolu'on not only in art, much faster and more powerful than we can imagine. At the same time, this new possibility of creating images will require increasingly conscious creation of artworks. The very process of crea'ng artworks is a fundamental differentiation between what is produced by an ar'st and what is produced by "simple image creators".
In this ongoing explosion of new image produc'on, it will be disruptive themes, the creative process, and uniqueness that will create value and become carriers of messages, supporting the social, human, cultural, and sexual change that we so desperately need. Now!
In an intricate world like the one shaped in our century, identity and sexuality also confirm this heterogeneity and the right to exist and manifest without the necessity to fall into predefined categorizations, which are becoming increasingly sterile, discriminatory, and regressive. As often happens, the collective framework evolves while institutions – all of them: political, religious, social – lag behind, unable to recognize changes and the de facto reality, as well as the right of everyone to be and express themselves, provided this does not infringe – and it does not! – upon the freedom and integrity of others.
The American countryside is the starting point... but in truth, it has little to do with it. I love only two things in the world:
human beings and everything else.
Leggi l’intervista su Art Part of Cult/ure
Thirty shots plus one printed in 99 copies; three iconographic clusters; black and white and color alternating from image to image; children who are almost adults and adults who are perpetually children; a tangle of signs and styles belonging to different eras and generations mixed and overlaid; the story of how even the most subversive movements of the past are slowly assimilated and readjusted by the establishment, then sold as luxury products. And sexuality, the body, as the theater of a silent, contemporary revolution. Look at the works published on La repubblica.
Hosted by the central editorial office of Quotidiano del Sud, and promoted by the Institute for Historical Studies of Cosenza and the Dodaro Foundation, a solo exhibition on the drama of immigration, experienced firsthand after spending a period on the SOS Mediterranée ship off the coast of Libya.
Quitapina+ the first Album by Le Stelle di S.
On Soundcloud
A film by
Massimo Scognamiglio Studio & Irida Production
Directed by
Massimo Scognamiglio & Fabrizio Boni
With
Miriam Consoni & Sarah Jane
© 2017 Massimo Scognamiglio
A radical approach to the world of fashion
A radical approach to the world of fashion
A radical and artistic approach to the world of fashion.
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A portrait is forever™
A portrait is forever™
Massimo Scognamiglio is the Publisher of The Magazine of Everything - undiscovered and unclassifiable contents & STUMP Magazine
Massimo Scognamiglio is the Publisher of The Magazine of Everything - undiscovered and unclassifiable contents & STUMP Magazine
Massimo Scognamiglio is the Creative Director and the publisher of two different magazine: The Magazine of Everything & Stump Magazine (not yet published).
The Magazine of Everything" originates as an artistic work even before being a traditional magazine because it aims to negate editorial intervention; it deals directly with artists – photographers, sculptors, and other representatives of the arts – but with one rule: once the author hands over their works, they lose the right to veto. In other words, the works are recontextualized, analogical associations are constructed, they undergo modifications with overlapping elements, graphic, visual, typographic, and can be mixed with other images, creating a new concept from the initial material. My own works are subject to the same violence. The first issue is entirely experimental, with a variety of themes and surprising sequences. From the subsequent issues, I start with the title and come to understand what the magazine wants to express only after making this series of associations. Unlike a political act, where one starts with a corollary and demonstrates it, the work takes on meaning afterward, following the stream of consciousness between the various works.
Focus on "Tokyo / Snapshots" published by Street Photography Magazine (September 2018)
Focus on "Tokyo / Snapshots" published by Street Photography Magazine (September 2018)
My Big Fat Street Photography Camera on Street Photography Magazine
Massimo Scognamiglio Bio
Massimo Scognamiglio Bio
Massimo Scognamiglio: a name that resonates in contemporary art. Born in Rome in 1969, he lives and works in the same city. An artist, photographer, and digital evangelist, Scognamiglio has been exhibiting his works since the mid-1990s. During 2006, he lived for two years in California and later moved briefly to Paris, where he performed and painted, including the renowned "Rebirth" in 2016, held at Place de la République. Today, he resides and works in Rome in his studio-gallery known as Le Petit Atelier.
His art penetrates the recesses of human introspection, without resorting to exaggeration. His works are a journey through the psyche, with series like "The Tears" (1998-2004), which exposed the rawest corners of human emotions, and "The Room Cycle" (from 2008), where each room becomes a chapter of an introspective narrative. Scognamiglio is an artist who leaves a profound imprint on the landscape of contemporary art, with works that explore the complexity of the human soul while simultaneously emitting a palpable vital force.
In 2023 and 2022, he was among the five finalists of the prestigious Exibart Prize. Scognamiglio is represented globally by Supermarket. His exhibitions have been held in private and public galleries, including the MACRO Museum Asylum in Rome with the project "Where is the future?", and the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, also in Rome, with the exhibition "The Shining Consciousness". Furthermore, some of his works are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Vibo Valentia, named LIMEN.
Very pleased to have been chosen as a finalist in the Exibart Prize 2022. So proud!
Molto lieto di essere stato scelto come finalista nell’Exibart Prize 2022. Molto molto orgoglioso