Patrizio Di Massimo
Selected Exhibitions
2024
Italia 70 – I Nuovi Mostri, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan
2023
Motherboy, Gio Marconi, Milan
Out like a Light, ChertLüdde, Berlin
Musei Civici di Palazzo Pianetti e Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Jesi
2022
As Snug as a Bug in a Rug, Rodolphe Janssen
‘Kathmandu Triennale 2077′, Kathmandu, Nepal
‘Presentation of contemporary collection’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2021
‘The Tail end of the Tale’, T293, Rome
‘ITALICS, Panorama’, Procida
‘The Sublime in Nature’, Cork Street, London
‘Close at Hand’, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
2020
‘The Escalator Cycle – Il Ciclo de La Risalita’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
‘Ciò che Vedo, Nuova Figurazione in Italia’, Galleria Civica Trento, Trento
‘Shaking the Habitual’, Duarte Sequeira, Braga
‘Garden of Six Seasons’, ParaSite, Hong Kong
2019
Patrizio Di Massimo, KURA at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan (Solo)
‘Über Mauer’, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo
‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
‘Guten Morgen, Europa!’, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
2018
Nightfalls, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
Total Anastrophes, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli
Take Me (I’m yours), Villa Medici, Rome
Somathetics, Museion, Bolzano
Inside Me, ChertLüdde, Berlin
EVA International, Ireland Biennale, Limerick
2017
Disegni, Artissima, Turin
Take Me (I’m yours), Hangar Bicocca, Milan
Grim Tales, Cassina Projects, New York
‘Bread and Circuses’, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
‘An ear, severed, listens’, CherLuedde, Berlin
2016
‘Retreat’, Kayu, Bali and Java
‘Artisti per Frescobaldi’, GAM, Milan
‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Frieze Art Fair, London
‘Vitrine’, NICC, Brussels
‘Mundus Muliebris’, Cura Basement
‘Domestic Appendices’, T293 Gallery
2015
‘Ennesima’, Triennale Milano
Nipson anomemata me monan opsin (Wash the sins not only the face), Monteverdi Gallery (Solo)
‘Prego Signori Si Accomodino’, Casa Studio Scatturin, Venezia
‘I am here but you have gone’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London
‘Natural Beginners’, Nuvolari, Paris
2014
‘Are, Ere, Ire’, T293, Rome (Solo)
‘Don’t you know who I am?’, M HKA, Antwerp
‘Soft Corners Lining White’, Rowing, London (Solo)
‘Camel Blues’, Kinman Gallery, London
‘Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins’, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles
‘Me, Mum, Mister, Mad’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (solo)
2013
‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Lezioni d’Italiano’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London (performance)
‘Patrizio Di Massimo: Inside Me’, Artissima, Present Future, with T293 (Solo)
‘The Lustful Turk’, Gasworks, London (solo)
‘Monologue for two’, Performance, Mdp1, Milan
‘De Puristes et de Fauves’, Shanaynay, Paris
‘It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve’, Para Site, Hong Kong
2012
‘D’Apres Giorgio’, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome
‘Il Turco Lussurioso – The Lustful Turk’, Villa Medici – The Academy of France, Rome (Solo)
‘Voglio Vivere Così – I want to live like this’, T293, Rome (Solo)
‘Una Turandiade Buzziana’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Men amongst the ruins’, TEOR/éTica, San Jose
‘Fuoriclasse’, GAM, Milano
‘La Storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto)’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
‘Maison Opera’, La Commun, Bac Batiment, Geneva
‘Rituals Without Myth’, Royal College of Art, London
‘Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012′, Maxxi, Rome
2011
‘One Caption Hides Another’, Betonsalon, Paris
‘Hantologie des colonies’, Kiasma International, Paris
‘Il Bel Paese dell’Arte’, Gamec, Bergamo
‘Alighiero e Boetti day’, Auditorium RAI, Torino
‘Psychopomp counsel’, De-Ateliers, Amsterdam
‘Tous cannibales’, Mason Rouge, Paris
‘Modus Operandi’, White Fish Tank, Ancona (Solo)
‘Emerging Talents’, Strozzina, Firenze
2010
‘See Reason’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau of Amsterdam
‘More Pricks than Kicks’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
’SI – Sindrome Italiana’, Magasin, Grenoble
‘Let us compare with mythologies’, Witte de With, Rotterdam
‘Low Decò’, FAI Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan
’Patrizio Di Massimo, The Negus said: Give me the lion keep the stele!’, Art 41 Basel, Art Statements, with T293 (Solo)
‘21×21: 21 artisti per il 21° secolo’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin
‘A Performance Cycle’, Nomas Foundation, Rome
‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Col sole in fronte’, T293, Naples (Solo)
‘Tutta la memoria del mondo’, Gam, Turin
2009
‘The object of the attack’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
‘Zilkha Auditorium’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Solo)
‘Eppur si muove’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene
‘Degree Show’, Slade School of Art, London
‘Documents’, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Turin
‘Desiring Necessities’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2008
‘Italian Wave’, Artissima 15, Turin (Solo)
‘The shortest short story ever written…’, FormContent Project Space, London
‘I desired what you were, I need what you are’, Maze Gallery, Turin
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Selected Exhibitions
2024
Italia 70 – I Nuovi Mostri, Fondazione Trussardi, Milan
2023
Motherboy, Gio Marconi, Milan
Out like a Light, ChertLüdde, Berlin
Musei Civici di Palazzo Pianetti e Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio, Jesi
2022
As Snug as a Bug in a Rug, Rodolphe Janssen
‘Kathmandu Triennale 2077′, Kathmandu, Nepal
‘Presentation of contemporary collection’, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2021
‘The Tail end of the Tale’, T293, Rome
‘ITALICS, Panorama’, Procida
‘The Sublime in Nature’, Cork Street, London
‘Close at Hand’, François Ghebaly, Los Angeles
2020
‘The Escalator Cycle – Il Ciclo de La Risalita’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
‘Ciò che Vedo, Nuova Figurazione in Italia’, Galleria Civica Trento, Trento
‘Shaking the Habitual’, Duarte Sequeira, Braga
‘Garden of Six Seasons’, ParaSite, Hong Kong
2019
Patrizio Di Massimo, KURA at Fonderia Artistica Battaglia, Milan (Solo)
‘Über Mauer’, Biennale Arcipelago Mediterraneo, Palermo
‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
‘Guten Morgen, Europa!’, A Tale of a Tub, Rotterdam
2018
Nightfalls, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels
Total Anastrophes, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli
Take Me (I’m yours), Villa Medici, Rome
Somathetics, Museion, Bolzano
Inside Me, ChertLüdde, Berlin
EVA International, Ireland Biennale, Limerick
2017
Disegni, Artissima, Turin
Take Me (I’m yours), Hangar Bicocca, Milan
Grim Tales, Cassina Projects, New York
‘Bread and Circuses’, Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
‘An ear, severed, listens’, CherLuedde, Berlin
2016
‘Retreat’, Kayu, Bali and Java
‘Artisti per Frescobaldi’, GAM, Milan
‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, Frieze Art Fair, London
‘Vitrine’, NICC, Brussels
‘Mundus Muliebris’, Cura Basement
‘Domestic Appendices’, T293 Gallery
2015
‘Ennesima’, Triennale Milano
Nipson anomemata me monan opsin (Wash the sins not only the face), Monteverdi Gallery (Solo)
‘Prego Signori Si Accomodino’, Casa Studio Scatturin, Venezia
‘I am here but you have gone’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London
‘Natural Beginners’, Nuvolari, Paris
2014
‘Are, Ere, Ire’, T293, Rome (Solo)
‘Don’t you know who I am?’, M HKA, Antwerp
‘Soft Corners Lining White’, Rowing, London (Solo)
‘Camel Blues’, Kinman Gallery, London
‘Little Messages for Modern Shut-Ins’, Aran Cravey, Los Angeles
‘Me, Mum, Mister, Mad’, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon (solo)
2013
‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Lezioni d’Italiano’, Fiorucci Art Trust, London (performance)
‘Patrizio Di Massimo: Inside Me’, Artissima, Present Future, with T293 (Solo)
‘The Lustful Turk’, Gasworks, London (solo)
‘Monologue for two’, Performance, Mdp1, Milan
‘De Puristes et de Fauves’, Shanaynay, Paris
‘It May Be That Beauty Has Strengthened Our Resolve’, Para Site, Hong Kong
2012
‘D’Apres Giorgio’, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome
‘Il Turco Lussurioso – The Lustful Turk’, Villa Medici – The Academy of France, Rome (Solo)
‘Voglio Vivere Così – I want to live like this’, T293, Rome (Solo)
‘Una Turandiade Buzziana’, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
‘Men amongst the ruins’, TEOR/éTica, San Jose
‘Fuoriclasse’, GAM, Milano
‘La Storia che non ho vissuto (testimone indiretto)’, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli
‘Maison Opera’, La Commun, Bac Batiment, Geneva
‘Rituals Without Myth’, Royal College of Art, London
‘Premio Italia Arte Contemporanea 2012′, Maxxi, Rome
2011
‘One Caption Hides Another’, Betonsalon, Paris
‘Hantologie des colonies’, Kiasma International, Paris
‘Il Bel Paese dell’Arte’, Gamec, Bergamo
‘Alighiero e Boetti day’, Auditorium RAI, Torino
‘Psychopomp counsel’, De-Ateliers, Amsterdam
‘Tous cannibales’, Mason Rouge, Paris
‘Modus Operandi’, White Fish Tank, Ancona (Solo)
‘Emerging Talents’, Strozzina, Firenze
2010
‘See Reason’, Stedelijk Museum Bureau of Amsterdam
‘More Pricks than Kicks’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
’SI – Sindrome Italiana’, Magasin, Grenoble
‘Let us compare with mythologies’, Witte de With, Rotterdam
‘Low Decò’, FAI Villa Necchi Campiglio, Milan
’Patrizio Di Massimo, The Negus said: Give me the lion keep the stele!’, Art 41 Basel, Art Statements, with T293 (Solo)
‘21×21: 21 artisti per il 21° secolo’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Turin
‘A Performance Cycle’, Nomas Foundation, Rome
‘Patrizio Di Massimo, Col sole in fronte’, T293, Naples (Solo)
‘Tutta la memoria del mondo’, Gam, Turin
2009
‘The object of the attack’, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
‘Zilkha Auditorium’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (Solo)
‘Eppur si muove’, Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation, Guarene
‘Degree Show’, Slade School of Art, London
‘Documents’, Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’arte, Turin
‘Desiring Necessities’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
2008
‘Italian Wave’, Artissima 15, Turin (Solo)
‘The shortest short story ever written…’, FormContent Project Space, London
‘I desired what you were, I need what you are’, Maze Gallery, Turin
Selected Works
2023
Weeping Nicoletta
Self-portrait at an Easel (Blue Creatures)
Stelle (Anthea, Nicholas & Stella)
Motherboy (Charles)
Motherboy (Mum & Lago)
Motherboy (Francesca, Claudio & Elia)
Motherboy (Mariella, Alex, Hugo, Luca, Nico)
Nicoletta and Patrizio (Blue Bed)
Self-portrait (Blue Monsters)
Out Like a Light (Diana & Pancetta)
Out Like a Light (Nicoletta and Patrizio)
Out Like a Light (Benito and Zadie)
Out Like a Light (Marianna)
Out Like a Light (Cosmin & Inti)
Out Like a Light (Alvaro & Petrit)
Caro Milovan, figlio delle stelle e della luna, figlio degli astri scuri che circondano la terra, il tuo sguardo cerca sempre più in là e non sa accontentarsi, il tuo destino è riletto e riletto ogni volta perché ti dobbiamo far compiere un gesto altro, che non ti aspetti, che noi sappiamo tu devi fare. Caro Milovan, tu svegliati dal torpore maleodorante delle insolite abitudini, svegliati dal rammarico e dalla cupidigia, svegliati ora perché il sogno è tuo amico, il sogno è tuo fratello, il sogno è tuo, per sempre sempre sempre
To the White Rose and the Robin (Triptych)
2022
Selfportrait (with Philip Guston)
The Sbaffoni’s
Cover Up
28B Erlanger Road (Sleeping Family)
As Snug as a Bug in a Rug (Diana)
Than and Jordan (Penarth Centre)
As Snug as a Bug in a Rug (Medusa)
Lok Chitrakar
As Snug as a Bug in a Rug (Francesca, Filippo and Martino)
Diana and Nicoletta (28B Erlanger Road)
Self-portrait (After Lionello Spada’s Cain and Abele)
As Snug as a Bug in a Rug (Ale, Fra and Giulio)
Untitled (Monsters)
2021
Infermento
Nicoletta & Giovanni (Li Galli)
Sono Sempre Vicino
On the Rocks
Caro Mondo
The Island (Grisaille)
Midway Upon the Journey of our Life
Monkey Business
The Tail End of the Tale
Rye Garden Day Nursery
Anna
Angry Birds
A Blue Room
The Price of Motherwood
Tea Time
Pensieri Nefasti
2020
The Last Painting of 2020
The Risalita Cycle
Close at Hand (Daphnis and Chloe after Nicolas Laugier)
The Island
The Reading (Natalie and Adam)
Chat2Me (George and James)
Tai in the Studio
Mum’s Floral Robe
No More Nappies
Spilled Milk
Flat 2, 164 Peckham Rye (Diana)
Untiled (Golden Background)
Dead Lovers (After Anonymous)
Nicoletta
Self-portrait as Rinaldo
Untitled (The Ethiopian Leg)
2019
Boxing Day
Entangled
August 15th in the studio (after Hippolyte Flandrin)
The Bather (after William-Adolphe Bouguereau)
Luna
Untitled (Green Triptych)
Bauhau
Epico Cavalleresco (after Joseph Paul Blanc)
Prussian Love
Diana (6 months)
Self portrait as abstract painter (after Anne Leibovitz)
Still Life (after Horst P. Horst)
Self-portrait with Boots
Influencer on Capital
Why Did You Call My Niece Your Niece?
Park House’s Kitchen
2018
Moths and Ladybirds
Flies and Cockroaches
Untitled (This painting will crack)
I mostri che abbiamo dentro
Do it again if you dare, you jerk!!!
I promise… I promise… I won’t lie again!!!
Say it again… come on, say it!!!
Give it back to me!!! You, moron!!!
How many times I have to tell you this, ah???
Self-portrait in armour (Take me I’m yours)
I am magenta
I am heraldic
I am fullfilled
I am abducted
I am listening
I am count Dracula
I am a pink lady
I am mad at you
2017
Self-portrait as model (Take me I’m yours)
The wedding
Self-portrait in armour
Self-portrait as model
The Soprano
The Lion Tamer
The Nail
Shhhhh
The Roman Kiss
Self Portrait as a Ghost
The Batik Dress
The Sword Swallower
The Pink Candle
2016
Perbacco
Drag on
Selfportrait in armour
Fencing naked
Sisters in Love
The awakening (Judith or Salome)
Red, Yellow and Blue
Selfportrait with trumpet
Ceramic Bags Serie
Carmen Mano Series
Deductive Inductive
Inductive Deductive
Rhapsody in the closet
2015
PDM
The Screen
The Milliner
The Black Cloud
The Japanese Tree
Nipson anomemata me monan opsin (Wash the sins not only the face)
Saint Peter
Saint Valentine
Saint Maurice
Saint Francis
Saint Joan of Arch
Saint Patrick
Prego Signori
Hot Hair Ballons
Odor of Sanctity
You Have Gone
I Am Here
2014
Curtain #20 (Are, Ere, Ire)
Sleeping
Available
At the gym
At the movies
In a meeting
Can’t talk
Ara, Era, Ira
Cosmic Joke
Mindfulness of Emotions
Stream of Thoughts
Ara, Ara, Ara
Are
Ere
Ire
Lost in Lust
French Kiss
The Mistress
Moxibustion
Soft Corners Lining White
Every Cloud has a Silver Lining
Curtain #11 (Soft Corners Lining White)
Mum
Mister
Mad
2013
Inside Me
Cushion no.5 (Ice Frappe)
The Lustful Turk (Salon)
The Lustful Turk (Bang Bang)
Curtain no.10 (Portrait of Emily Barlow)
The Lustful Turk (Haberdashery)
Cushion no.4 (Portrait of Eli, Sultan of Algeri)
Cushion no.3 (Portrait of Eliza)
The Lustful Turk (Whip)
The Lustful Turk (Fish on a dish)
The Lustful Turk (Bracelets)
The Lustful Turk (Ercolanum)
The Lustful Turk (Legs)
The Lustful Turk (Swords)
Monologue for two
Curtain no.9 (Lust)
Curtain no.8 (Love)
2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Souvenir) – The Lustful Turk (Souvenir), 2012
Sipario n.7 (Ritratto di Alì, Sultano di Algeri) – Curtain n.7 (Portrait of Alì, Sultan of Algeri), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Mamma Li Turchi) – The Lustful Turk (Mum The Turks Are Coming), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Soffio) – The Lustful Turk (Blow), 2012
Cuscini n.1 (Ritratto di Emily Barlow) – Cushions n.1 (Portrait of Emily Barlow), 2012
Cuscino n.2 (Ritratto di Eliza) – Cushion n.2 (Portrait of Eliza), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Harem) – The Lustful Turk (Harem), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Dittico) – The Lustful Turk (Diptych), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Sipario) – The Lustful Turk (Curtain), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Cuscini) – The Lustful Turk (Cushions), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (La schiava Greca) – The Lustful Turk (The Greek Slave), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (Coucou) – The Lustful Turk (Coucou), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (La stanza blu) – The Lustful Turk (The blue room), 2012
Il Turco Lussurioso (la stanza verde) – The Lustful Turk (the green room), 2012
Ritratto dell’artista da vecchio – Portrait of the artist as an old man, 2012
Sipario n.6 (Ritratto di Amleto) – Curtain n.6 (Portrait of Hamlet), 2012
Sipario n.4 e n.5 – Curtain n.4 and n.5, 2012
Sipario n.3 (Ritratto di Mattia Pascal) – Curtain n.3 (Portrait of Mattia Pascal), 2012
Sipario n.2 (Ritratto di Canio) – Curtain n.2 (Portrait of Canio), 2012
Voglio Vivere Così – I want to live this, 2012
‘Portrait of Nicoletta’, 2012
Ritratto di Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n. 3,4,5,6,7) – Portrait of Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n. 3,4,5,6,7), 2012
Portrait of Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n.2), 2012
2011
Una Turandiade Buzziana (in forma di note) – Buzzi’s Turandot (in the shape of notes), 2011
Una Turandiade Buzziana (binocoli) – Buzzi’s Turandot (opera glasses), 2011
Fuga dal disordine (Vogue Ed.) – Flight from disorder (Vogue Ed.), 2011
Ritratto di Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n.1)- Portrait of Alfredo Casella, 1924 (n.1), 2011
Untitled (Clouds 2), 2011
Pompei – Pompea, 2011
Leptis Magna, sono nato qui (Serigrafia) – Leptis Magna, I was born here (Screen print version), 2011
Gentiluomini – Gentlemen, 2011
Ballando con le stelle – Dancing with the stars, 2011
2010
Untitled (Throughbred), 2010
Faccetta Nera, Faccetta Bianca – Little black face, little white face, 2010
Domatore di leoni – Lion Tamer, 2010
Untitled (Purebreed), 2010
Il Negus ha detto: “Datemi il leone, tenetevi la stele!” (Testo) – The Negus said: “Give me the lion, keep the stele!” (Text), 2010
Il Negus ha detto: “Datemi il leone, tenetevi la stele!” (Disegni) – The Negus said: “Give me the lion, keep the stele!” (Drawings), 2010
Fuga dal disordine – Flight from disorder, 2010
Ben Bene – God good, 2010
2008
Leptis Magna, sono nato qui – Leptis Magna, I was born here, 2008
Tripolis, 2008
Senza Titolo – Untitled, 2008
Untitled (Pureblood), 2008
2009
Disegni – Drawings, 2009
Duetto per cannibali – Duet for cannibals, 2009
As every artist I am first of all a painter of women, 2009
Four men, 2009
The secret proceedings in the trial at Benghazi, 15 September 1931, 2009
Oae, 2009
Ten little niggers, 2009
2007
Pelo & Contropelo, 2007
Untitled (my father emulating me), 2007
2006
Succedette a Roma, 2006
Selected Press
L’Uomo Vogue, October 2017
Phaidon Press, Vitamin P3, 2017, p. 182, 183
Cura Magazine, Joao Mourao and Luis Silva, ‘Spotlight’, Summer 2014, no. 17, p. 104-115
Frieze, Amy Sherlock, ‘Guilty pleasure at home at far away’, June, July, August 2014, Issue no. 164, p. 162-163
ArtReview, Jennifer Thatcher, ‘Patrizio Di Massimo, The Lustful Turk’, December 2013, p.126
Cookie and Luz, Hendrik Folkters, Inti Guerrero, Alessandro Rabottini, ‘Focus #2: Patrizio Di Massimo’, December 2012
MAP Magazine, Geldrand Rebecca, ‘Patrizio Di Massimo’, issue number 24, p 26 – 27
Kaleidoscope Magazine, Obrist Ulrich Hans, ‘Mor(t)al landscape’, April – May, 2010, p. 30 – 33
Mousse Magazine, ‘Introducing Francesco Arena e Patrizio Di Massimo’, aprile, n. 23, 2010
Kaleidoscope, Rabottini Alessandro, ‘An immense bluff, The Italian artist Patrizio Di Massimo journey to Libya’, Summer, 2009, n. 2, p. 126 ‐ 129
Flash Art Italia, Ilaria Gianni, ‘Ouverture: Patrizio Di Massimo’, April ‐ May 2009, n. 275
Domus Magazine, Albanese Flavio, Mascheroni Loredana, ‘Recto and Verso, Patrizio Di Massimo, giochi di specchi tra passato e futuro’, February, 2009, n. 922
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Patrizio Di Massimo
‘Fencing Naked’, 2016
oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cm
