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BIO&CRITICS

| Lombardia | Claudio Monnini Art

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The artist

Painter, (but also architect and set designer) was born in Milan in 1965. Besides a thriving cooperation with Wannabee Gallery in Milan, where he has been exhibiting his work in solo and group shows, he has been taking part of many public shows in Italy and abroad. Claudio Monnini’s painting is connoted by a secure, strong and quick paintbrush, determined by his knowledge of drawing which does not need the help of a camera to reach a strong and expressive realism. In the new Italian figurative scene, he is considered one of the most significant portraitists.

Solo shows

2015 ArtePadova Wannabee Gallery, Milan

2015 Studio Arte Mosè Gallery, Rovigo

2015 ArteGenova Wannabee Gallery, Milan

2013"Day dream", Wannabee Gallery, Montalcino (Si)

2012 "Vento di Terra", Wannabee Gallery, MIlan - V-Artproject, Valenza (AL)

2012 "Vento di Terra" Main headquarters Assicurazioni Generali, Reggio Emilia

2012 “Arte Genova”, Wannabee Gallery, Genoa

2011 Geode alla Fortezza da Basso, Firenze, Pitti Uomo 80°, “Tutto il rosa della vita, by Gazzetta dello sport”

2011 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, by Viviana Siviero, “La sindrome di Ulisse”

2010 Wannabee Gallery, Step09, Milan, “Establishing shot”,

2010 QB, Milan, “Finis terrae”

2010 Palazzo comunale di Celle Ligure (SV), by Silvia Pettinicchio, “Stati di illuminazione”

2009 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, by Alessandro Riva, “Hortus animae. Corpus animae”

2008 Open atelier event, Milan, “Art terminal opening evening”

Group shows

2017 "San Sebastiano inedito" Gate/Porta, by Lucio Scardino, Ferrara,

2015 "Premio Pio Alferano 2015, Sulla tela e sulla tavola." by Vittorio Sgarbi,CASTELLABATE (SA)

2014"Arte Padova" Wannabee Gallery, Milan,

2014 "Arte Genova" Wannabee Gallery, Milan

2013 "Immagina Arte in fiera" Mirabilia Arte & Cultura, Reggio nell'Emila,

2013 “ArteCremona”, Bianca Maria Rizzi & Matthias Ritter, Milan

2013 “Bergamo Artefiera” Wannabee Gallery, Milan

2012 “Arte Piacenza” Wannabee Gallery, Milan

2012 " Il Mito del Vero 2012 | Apokalips", Regione Lombardia, Milan

2012 " Il Mito del Vero 2012 | Apokalips", Regione Lombardia, Milan

2012"Italian Portraits"-Salone del Mobile Milano-Gruppo d'Arte,Rho, Milano

2012"AAM. Arte Accessibile Milano" Wannabee Gallery, Milano

2012"AAM. Arte Accessibile Milano - Pop up" Sputnik, Milano

2012 “XXS” Galleria Visconti, Ljubljana

2012 “Arte Cremona”, Wannabee Gallery, Cremona

2011 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, “Sotto l’albero”,

2011 Galleria Bianca Maria Rizzi & Mathias Ritter, Step09, Milan,

2011 Padua Fair, Wannabee Gallery, “Arte Padova”

2011 Padiglione Italia la Biennale di Venezia 54. Milano , Milan, by Vittorio Sgarbi

2011 Nuovo spazio arte contemporanea, Piacenza, “Acqua”

2011 Wannabee Gallery & Christie’s, City Life, Milan, “La vita in una battuta”, auction in aid of charity for Una Mano alla

Vita Onlus

2011 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, “ArteCremona”

2011 The White Gallery, Milan, “Biroshow”

2010 Wannabee Gallery, Milano, “Marilyn Nomore”

2010 Fondazione Durini, Milan, by Vittorio Sgarbi, “Ritratti italiani”

2010 Wannabee Gallery, MIlan, by Vladek Cwaliski, “Fossili contemporanei”

2010 Modern Art Gallery Aroldo Bonzagni, Auditorium S. Lorenzo, Cento (FE), by Vittorio Sgarbi, “Ritratti italiani”

2010 AWARE 1st Annual Fundraiser, The Culy Warehouse, San Diego, USA, ''Recycle and Reuse''

2010 Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, “Do you droopal”

2010 San Diego Children Museum, San Diego, USA, “Rolling Readers”

2010 The San Diego World Trade Center, San Diego, USA, “Una Notte a Milano / One Night in Milan”

2010 Casa di Letizia Moratti Foundation, Milan, “Colora Milano”

2010 Wannabee Gallery, Milano, by Silvia Pettinicchio e Cristina Ferraro, “Crisis, what crisis?”

2010 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, “Christmas mARTket”

2009 Strada sotterranea del castello, Vigevano (PV), by Mariangela Maritato, “Casa di bambola”

2009 Villa Castelbarco, Vaprio D’Adda (MI), by Alberto Gencarelli, “The masked ball”

2009 Superstudiopiù, Milan, by Sputnik arts project, “XXS”

2009 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, by Silvia Pettinicchio e Manuela Congedi, “Another break in the wall”

2009 The San Diego Jazz Musicians Guild-The First Annual Art exhibition, San Diego, USA, “What Is Jazz To

You?”

2009 Cirello Gallery, San Diego, USA, “Seven Italian Artists”

2009 SDAI (San Diego Art Institute) Museum of the Living Artists, San Diego, USA, by Samir Chala, ''One-foot

Show'' and ''Regional Show''

2009 Le segrete di Bocca, Milan, by Giovanni Serafini and Giorgio Lodetti, “Pensieri & parole, Arte erotica e pornografia”

2009 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, by Mimmo di Marzio, “Undercover”

2009 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, by Samir Chala, “Love nest”

2009 Artfusion Gallery, Miami, USA, “Exploration of the spirit”

2008 Artepensiero Gallery, Milan, “Christmas mARTket”

2008 Revel scalo d’Isola, Milan, by Silvia Pettinicchio and Marco Pozzi, “Male di miele”

2008 Superstudiopiù, charity auction with Christie’s, Milan, “Artisti per Arianna”

2008 Wannabee Gallery, Milan, “Sex toys”

2007 PAC (Contemporary Art Pavillon), Milan, by Vittorio Sgarbi e Maurizio Sciaccaluga, “Nuovi pittori della

realtà”

2007 Palazzina Reale di S. Maria Novella, Florence, by Vittorio Sgarbi and Eugenio Viola, “Vade retro. Arte e

omosessualità. Da von Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles”

2007 Michetti Foundation, Francavilla al Mare, (CH), by Vittorio Sgarbi and Maurizio Sciaccaluga, ”58° Premio

Michetti. Nuovi Realismi”

2007 Brick Lane Gallery, London, “Art in mind. Restricted area - Five bodies in 300x150cm”

2007 Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, by Vittorio Sgarbi and Eugenio Viola, “Vade retro. Arte e omosessualità. Da von

Gloeden a Pierre et Gilles”

They Wrote About Him

2015 Chiara Pavani La voce di Rovigo

2015 Vincenzo Baratella

2012 Francesca Baboni e Stefano Taddei

2012 Giacomo Maria Prati

2011 Viviana Siviero, Silvia Pettinicchio

2011 Vivimilano

2010 Vittorio Sgarbi,

2009 Mariangela Maritato

2009 Giovanni Serafini

2009 Alessandro Riva, Silvia Pettinicchio

2009 La Repubblica

2008 Monsieur

2007 Vittorio Sgarbi Maurizio Sciaccaluga

2007 Vittorio Sgarbi Eugenio Viola

Catalogs & Press

2015 Chiara Pavani La voce di Rovigo

2015 Vincenzo Baratella

2012 Francesca Baboni e Stefano Taddei

2012 Giacomo Maria Prati

2011 Viviana Siviero, Silvia Pettinicchio

2011 Vivimilano

2010 Vittorio Sgarbi,

2009 Mariangela Maritato

2009 Giovanni Serafini

2009 Alessandro Riva, Silvia Pettinicchio

2009 La Repubblica

2008 Monsieur

2007 Vittorio Sgarbi Maurizio Sciaccaluga

2007 Vittorio Sgarbi Eugenio Viola

TV & Videos

2011 Art Tribune TV

2011 Elite shopping TV

2007 Rai 3

Collectors

Sergio Bambarèn

Giovanna and Stefano Fumagalli (Milan)

Veronica Artioli (Milan)

Annalù Boeretto (San Donà di Piave)

Annika Casarin (Milan)

Samir Chala (San Diego)

Riccardo e Laura Cioni (Florence and Milan)

Paolo Dalla Torre (Piacenza)

Massimiliano Finazzer Flory (Milan)

Giovanni Maria Flick (Rome)

Fabio Ghioni (Milan)

Nicos Guerra (Milan)

Marisa e Piergiorgio Molinari (Milan)

Alessandro Moretti (Milan)

Avv. Cristina Osera (Piacenza)

Donatella Panigada (Milan)

Laura Pettinicchio (Milan)

Silvia Pettinicchio (Milan)

Avv. Alberto Raffo (Genoa)

Nicola Rossi (Padova)

Luigi Rossi (Brescia)

Roberto Russo (Milan)

Magda Salarich (Madrid- Paris)

Franca Scolaro (Rovigo)

Agnese Sguera(Crema)

Federico Sponza (Pavia, Milan)

Patrizia Valla (Milan)

Paolo Varcesi (Milan)

Berto Vassilli (Padua)

Permanent collections

La Gazzetta dello sport (Milan)

Pubblitalia (Milan)

Regione Sicilia, Assessorato alle politiche agricole (Palermo)

La Martina

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