Angelo Volpe

Available Works

Biography

Angelo Volpe was born in Naples (Italy), where he lives and works. In 1995 he obtained the Diploma of “Applied Art in Graphics for Advertising and Photography”. In 2000 he obtained a "Degree in Painting" at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. After the studies, in 2002 he collaborated as an assistant on the creation of a wall drawing by the artist Sol LeWitt at the Capodimonte Museum in Naples, becoming one of the main reference assistants of the American artist in Italy.

Active since 2005 with his personal artistic research, Volpe favors painting as a medium for the creation of his works. The results of this artistic research have found wide visibility in multiple exhibitions, including: “Animamix Biennial-Visual Attract and attack”, MoCA the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2009). “Brand: New Art”, Museo della Permanente, Milano, Italy (2010). “Dadaumpop”, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata, India; BMB Gallery, Mumbai, India; Italian Cultural Centre, NeuDelhi, India; “54th International Exhibition of the VENICE BIENNALE, Official Collateral, Future Pass – From Asia to the World”, Palazzo Mangilli Valmarana, Venezia, Italy; Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Holland (2011). “Future Pass – From Asia to the World”, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (2012).

Themes such as memory, transience of time, mutability of reality and self-awareness become the subject of analysis to stimulate viewers and prompt them to reflect on the complexity of the concept of spirit and identity. Executed through an elaborate painting process, achieved by overlapping multiple layers of colour glazes, these paintings exhibit soft and enveloping tones that give the painting a sensual and realistic effect. The composition, singular in its framing and iconographic accuracy, hints at the ordinary predisposition by which individuals focus on particular events of existence while neglecting others. The subjects depicted with introspective realism internalize enigmatic processes, developed over centuries through all forms of mental and somatic evolution. In the weave of the canvas, personal narratives are interwoven with the complex intrigue of collective emotions, derived from a wondrous reality in perpetual duality. Painting, a utopian dream, becomes an intimate refuge through which to whisper the imminent necessity of an indispensable vital urgency.

Exhibitions

2020, Academy of Fine Art in Naples, Italy.

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Selected Solo Exhibitions

2019, Archetypes Exhibition, Galerie 95, Bienne, Switzerland.

2018, Sinestetico Show, Galleria Annarumma, Napoli, Italy.

2015, Acid Fairytale, curated by Maurizio Siniscalco, Galleria Siniscalco, Napoli, Italy.

2014, No Pun Intended, curated by Benjamin Krause, Krause Gallery, New York, USA.

2013, What about tomorrow?, Galleria Candido Portinari – UERJ|Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

What about Tomorrow?, Galleria Siniscalco, Napoli, Italy.

2012, When there was Snow White everything was simpler, Akneos Gallery, Napoli, Italy.

2010, FENDI for children, curated by Maria Savarese, PAN|Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy.

2009, Hop up tales, Changing Role Move Over Gallery, Napoli, Italy.

2007, Human decadence, Galleria Pescatore Artecontemporanea, Benevento, Italy.

2005, Praticabile, Galleria Nuvole Arte Contemporanea, Montesarchio, Italy.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024, GAZA - Stop The Genocide, curated by Silvia Marzoli and Massimo Sgroi, Galleria Centometriquadri Arte Contemporanea, Caserta, Italy.

2021, Così Fan Tutti, Artworks From The Collection Of ERNESTO ESPOSITO, curated by Marianna Agliottone, Villa Campolieto, Ercolano, Italy.

2018, Join The Dots, Doni – Authors From Campania|Imago Mundi, Luciano Benetton Collection, Salone degli Incanti|Ex Pescheria,Trieste, Italy.

2017, Selected Works From The Bech Risvig Collection, Huset for Kunst og Design, Holstebro, Denmark.

• Doni - Authors From Campania | Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection, curated by Chiara Pirozzi, Museo Madre, Napoli, Italy.

• North Kunstmesse |Solo, curated by Artland, Wonderland Spritten, Aalborg, Denmark.

• Mediterranean Routes | Imago Mundi - Luciano Benetton Collection, Zac - Zisa Zona Arti Contemporanee, Palermo, Italy.

• 12 Volte La Carta, curated by il Filodipartenope, Archivio Parisio, Napoli, Italy.

2016, FACE TO FACE, a selection of international emerging artists from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, curated by Ernesto Esposito, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy.

The Blank ArtDate | la città dei destini incrociati - Studio d'Arte Fioretti, Bergamo, Italy.

Arte e motori gioie e dolori, curated by Marco Fioretti, Studio d'Arte Fioretti, Bergamo, Italy.

2015, Arte e motori gioie e dolori, curated by Igor Zanti, Studio d'Arte Fioretti, Bergamo, Italy.

2014, Emerging to Established, curated by Benjamin Krause, Krause Gallery, New York, USA.

TLG 2.0 – Through the looking glass 2.0, curated by Assunta Crispino, Museo Civico Rocca Flea, Gualdo Tadino, Perugia, Italy.

Postcards - Arte Minima Segreta, curated by Igor Zanti, IED Istituto Europeo di Design, Milano, Italy.

2013, VIII International Shiryaevo Biennal of Contemporary Art - "TLG 2.0 - Through the looking glass 2.0", curated by Assunta Crispino, Modern Museum, Shiryaevo, Russia.

2012, Future Pass – From Asia to the World, curated by Victoria Lu, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China.

Future Pass – From Asia to the World, curated by Victoria Lu, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, China.

Play With Eyes – curated by Massimo Sgroi and Nello Arionte, Mac3 Museo Arte Contemporanea, Caserta, Italy.

Pop VERSUS Concettuale, curated by Giorgia Cassini and Alessandro Icardi, Castello di Montaldo, Torino, Italy.

Inside Merilyn, curated by Giuseppe Iavicoli and Alessandro Icardi, Combines XL Gallery, Milano, Italy.

Let me be your Valentine... Want you be my Valentine?, curated by Alessandro Icardi, Pow Gallery, Torino, Italy.

2011, Future Pass – From Asia to the World, curated by Victoria Lu, Renzo di Renzo and Felix Schöber, Wereldmuseum, Rotterdam, Holland.

54th International Exhibition of the VENICE BIENNALE, Official Collateral: Future Pass – From Asia to the World, curated by Victoria Lu, Renzo Renzo and Felix Schöber, Palazzo Mangilli Valmarana, Venezia, Italy.

Brand:New ART, curated by Luca Beatrice, Villa delle Rose|Museo Mambo, Bologna, Italy.

54th International Exhibition of the VENICE BIENNALE - Pavilion Italia/Torino - curated by Vittorio Sgarbi - Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Torino, Italy.

Dadaumpop, curated by Igor Zanti, Gallery Rinascimento Contemporaneo, Genova, Italy.

Brand:New ART, curated by Luca Beatrice, Fondazione Puglisi Cosentino, Catania, Italy.

Dadaumpop, curated by Igor Zanti, Italian Cultural Centre, NeuDelhi, India.

Brand:New ART, curated by Luca Beatrice, Museo della Penna, Perugia, Italy.

Dadaumpop, curated by Igor Zanti, Rabindranath Tagore Centre, Kolkata, India.

Neopopulart, curated by Eduardo Di Mauro and Alessandro Icardi, Spazio Sansovino Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy.

Dadaumpop, curated by Igor Zanti, BMB Gallery, Mumbai, India.

Arte a Sud, curated by Francesca Londino and Settimio Ferrari, Palazzo Romiti, Cosenza, Italy.

2010, Brand: New Art, curated by Luca Beatrice, Museo della Permanente, Milano, Italy.

Impresa da talenti, curated by Maria Savarese, PAN | Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Napoli, Italy.

Urban creatures, curated by Francesca Londino and Settimio Ferrari, Spazioeventi Mondadori, Venezia, Italy.

Urban creatures, curated by Francesca Londino and Settimio Ferrari, Palazzo San Bernardino, Rossano, Italy.

Festival delle Lettere, Spazio Oberdan, teatro del Verme, Milano, Italy.

Inside Merilyn, curated by Alessandro Icardi, Pow Gallery, Torino, Italy.

2009, Animamix Biennial-Visual Attract and attack, curated by Yu-Chieh Lin - Artistic Director by Victoria Lu, MoCA the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan.

Sguardi multipli, curated by Francesca Londino and Settimio Ferrari, Palazzo San Bernardino, Rossano, Italy.

Sguardi multipli, curated by Francesca Londino and Settimio Ferrari, Castello Estense, Ferrara, Italy.

Ceres 4 Art, curated by Valentina Pesati, My Own Gallery, Milano, Italy.

2008, New Art, New Pop III. Per Aspera Ad Astra, curated by di Igor Zanti, Gallery dell’Ombra, Brescia, Italy.

2007, Art Stays – 5^ International Festival of Contemporary Art, curated by Vladimir Forbici and Jernej Forbici, Gallery Miheliceva, Gallery FO.VI., Ptuj, Slovenjia.

ZooART ‘07, Itinerari artistici ai giardini Fresia, curated by Michela Giuggia, Ornella Calvetti and Paolo Sasia, Cuneo, Italy.

Il filo di Arianna, curated by Mimmo Parente, Galleria Pescatore Artecontemporanea, Benevento, Italy.

2006, Abitare il confine, curated by Domenico Papa, Museo Forte di Fenestrelle, Torino, italy.

2005, Carta Bianca, curated by Manuela De Noia, Galleria Nuvole Arte Contemporanea, Montesarchio, Italy.