* 1983 Fondi (Italien)
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Growing up between the 80s and 90s, Michele Gabriele formalizes a wide range of elements that appear to be generated from childhood memories and are characterized by post-digital hyper-materialism.
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Shaped and painted sculptural pieces are often placed alongside found objects and existing components. Paintings of enormous sizes with layers of different materials and methods completely merge, suggesting a certain ambiguity. The self-generated forms look upon the ruins of the dream of a sustainable future, which we regard with regret and nostalgia. Michele Gabriele's work explores the distance between the viewer and the artwork in the constant search for a balance between representation and materiality, space and time, outdated past, and dystopian future. This offers the viewer the opportunity to experience and develop a critical and reciprocal relationship with the artwork itself, with each other, and with the world.
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The artist studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy, and at Paris 8 University in France, and was a guest lecturer at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Dresden in Germany in 2021. Among his international solo exhibitions are the ASHES/ASHES Gallery during the MiArt Show in Milan, Italy (2024), MeetFactory in Prague, Czech Republic (2023), and the Kunsthalle Ost in Leipzig, Germany.
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Michele Gabriele lives and works in Milan, Italy.
