GIANCARLO NERI
biography.
Born in Naples in 1955, is one of the major Italian authors of large-scale public art installations. His great open-air works always carry within them the trace of human presence and its everyday objects, variously decontextualized, reproduced on a giant scale and changed by meaning. The playful element, the dialectic between the ephemeral nature of many works and a creativity that prefers the size of the monumental are constant in the artist’s work.
In 1978 he moved to New York as a professional footballer but then he studied painting and sculpture at the “Arts Students League” and became a full-time artist. His first solo exhibition was at the Kornblee Gallery in 1983. In those years he began to create large-scale environmental installations, in the urban and natural landscape, in the USA, in Europe and then in Brazil.
Among the most important works Still Night on the rooftop of the Clocktower Gallery (P.S.1) in 1989 and Holy Tunnel a Canal Street (Tribeca) 1991 in New York; 180 chairs in Capri, on the Via Krupp on the island of Capri, 1991; The Writer, installation in the Villa Ada park in Rome in 2003, then in London in the Hampstead Heath park in 2005, and definitively located in the Villa Reale in Monza; Massimo Silenzio at the Circus Maximus in Rome (2007) then replicated in Madrid (2008), Dubai (2009) and Rio de Janeiro (Praça Paris, 2012); Luna & Laltra, permanent work at the Castel Sant’Elmo in Naples, 2008; Glória! On the facade of the Hotel Glória in Rio de Janeiro, 2009. Among his most recent works Mistério Napolitano in Lisbon, 2014, Latinorum in the archaeological site of the Roman houses of Celio in Rome, 2014; Audioghost68, installation / performance on Burri’s Grande Cretto in Sicily, 2015, Barroco Elétrico at the Oi Futuro foundation in Rio de Janeiro, 2016 and Lune for the 60 years of the Spoleto festival, 2017.
Neri lives and works in Rome.
exhibitions.
all exhibitions by GIANCARLO NERI with STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
GIANCARLO NERI
parole parole
march 22nd - may 3th, 2014
BUON DOMANI - A BETTER TOMORROW
group show
december 9th, 2010 - january 29th, 2011
CURRICULUM OF GIANCARLO NERI
SOLO SHOW – INSTALLATIONS
2018
Moontruck, Bombay Beach Biennial, California
2017
Lune, Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto
2016
Intrasatta, Museo Archeologico Provinciale, Salerno
Marittima Case, Castello di Marittima (LE)
Barroco Elétrico, Fondazione Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro
2015
Audioghost68, Cretto di Burri, Gibellina, Sicily
2014
Mistério Napolitano, Projecto Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon
Parole Parole, STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI, Rome
2012
Máximo Silêncio em Paris, Praça Paris, Rio de Janeiro
2011
Presidente Mão, Galeria Progetti, Rio de Janeiro
2010
Vincere si deve la Sorte, Gibellina, Sicily
2009
Barocco Binario, Central Station, Naples
Glória!, Hotel Glória, Rio de Janeiro
Romario (con Marcos Chaves), Galeria Progetti, Rio de Janeiro
The Colors of Silence, Nad Al Sheba Racetrack, Dubai
2008
Maximo Silencio, Explanada del Rey, Madrid
Tanto di Cappello, Castelmezzano, Potenza
Luna & Laltra, Castel Sant’Elmo, Naples
2007
Monumento Pobre, Plaza Monroy, La Paz, Bolivia
Massimo Silenzio, Circo Massimo, Rome
Duchampo, Roberto D’Antonio, Rome
2005
The Writer, Hampstead Heath, Londra
Recent Works, ROLLO Contemporary Art, Londra
2004
Otto, Studio Angeletti, Rome
2003
Cadeira Ilùstre, Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro
Lo Scrittore, Villa Ada, Rome
2002
Napoli da Lontano, Fondazione C. Rendano, Naples
Giancarlo Neri, Smit, Rome
2000
Ouro, Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro
La Fabbrica a Palazzo, Palazzo Reale, Naples
1998
L’Isola di Pasquale, Ex-Italsider, Bagnoli, Naples
1997
Cavallone, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples
1996
Mostra Personale, Studio Diodato, Rome
1995
Giancarlo Neri, Adirondacks College, Glens Falls, New York
1994
Sedie sul Mare, Baia di Positano
1992
Il Goal Impossibil, Giro della Rocca, Spoleto
1991
180 Sedie a Capri, Via Krupp, Capri
H.T. (Holy Tunnel), Canal Street, Tribeca, New York
1990
153 Sedie, Mostra d’Oltremare, Naples
A Monument to Bureaucracy, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C.
1989
Still Night, Clocktower Gallery (P.S.1), New York
1988
Vedi Napoli e poi Neri. Palazzo Marigliano, Naples
Galleria V.S.V. , Torino
Novelune, Greenwich Village, New York
1986
Nasi Comunicanti, StudioE, Rome
1985
Parallel Window, West 15th Street, New York
Saluti da Napoli, Kornblee Gallery New York
1984
L’Ovo di Napoli, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples
Galleria Diagramma Inga-Pin Milano
1983
Kornblee Gallery, New York
1982
Esame Finestra, Union Square, New York
GROUP SHOW (selection)
2014
Calcio d’autore, Auditorium-Parco della Musica, Rome;
2012
Galeria Progetti, Rio de Janeiro;
2011
Hear me out, Ciac Castello Colonna, Genazzano;
2010
Luminaria 2010, Piazza San Domenico, Naples;
2009
Donne di roma, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome;
2008
Fresco Bosco, Certosa di Padula;
2004
Incontri…, Villa Medici, Rome
2003
Studio Angeletti, Rome;
1998
Premio Malaparte, Certosa di Capri;
1997
Stellarium, Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, Naples;
1997
…e venne in una grotta, Studio Diodato, Rome;
1993
The Hyde Collection, Glens Fallls, New York;
1992
Fiatoyotalada, Lista Fyr , Norway;
1991
P.S.1 International Studio Program, New York;
1990
Grand Tour, itinerant exhibition, Italy e U.S.A.;
1988
StudioE, Rome;
1988
Galleria V.S.V, Torino;
1987
Siegel Gallery, New York;
1987
Borders, Canadian cultural center, Rome;
1986
Jerry Marcus Smith Gallery, Dallas, U.S.A.;
1984
Kornblee Gallery, New York;
1983
Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles;
1982
Kornblee Gallery, New York;
1980
Profile Gallery, New York.
selected works.
selected works by GIANCARLO NERI’s shown at STUDIO STEFANIA MISCETTI.
