Massimo Vitali Artist
Massimo Vitali was born in Como in 1944. He lives and works in Lucca and Berlin. He moved to London after high school, where he studied Photography at the London College of Printing. In the early Sixties he started working as a photojournalist, collaborating with many magazines and agencies in Italy and in Europe. It was during this time that he met Simon Guttmann, the founder of the agency, Report, who was to become fundamental in Massimo's growth as a "Concerned Photographer". At the beginning of the Eighties a growing mistrust in the belief that photography had an absolute capacity to reproduce the subtleties of reality led to a change in his career path. He began working as a cinematographer for television and cinema. However, his relationship with the still camera never ceased, and he eventually turned his attention back to “photography as a means of artistic research”. His series of Italian beach panoramas began in the light of drastic political changes in Italy. Massimo started to observe his fellow countrymen very carefully. He depicted a "sanitized, complacent view of Italian normalities", at the same time revealing "the inner conditions and disturbances of normality: its cosmetic fakery, sexual innuendo, commodified leisure, deluded sense of affluence, and rigid conformism". Over the past 12 years he has developed a new approach to portraying the world, illuminating the apotheosis of the Herd, expressing and commenting through the most intriguing, palpable forms of contemporary art- Photography. Recent solo exhibitions include: Benrubi Gallery, New York (2017); Ronchini Gallery, London (2016); Studio La città, Verona (2014); Erich Lindenberg Art Foundation, Porza (2014), Bonni Benrubi, New York (2013), Galeria Claire Fontaine, Luxembourg (2013), Art Loft, Berlin (2013), Crown Gallery, Brussels (2013), Fotografia Europea 2012, Reggio Emilia (2012), PhotoMed, Sanary sur Mer (2012), Brancolini Grimaldi, London (2011), Baro' Galeria, São Paulo (2011), LOOK3, Charlottesville (2011), Galerie du Jour, Paris (2010), M + B, Los Angeles (2010), Galerie Ernst Hilger at Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna (2010), Centro de Arte Santa Monica In/Out, Barcelona (2010), Foam, Amsterdam (2009), Vintage Green Core Club, New York (2009), Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (2004), 49^ Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2001). Recent group exhibitions include: Italian Embassy, Metternich Palace, Vienna (2017); Extraordinary visions. L'Italia ci guarda, MAXXI – Museo delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome (2016); Inside Out, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan (2015); Addio Anni '70. Arte a Milano 1969-1980 Palazzo Reale, Milan (2012); Shared Spaces Photo Espana, Royal Botanical Gardens, Madrid (2012); Panorama sur les 20 ans d'une collection, Centre Mediterraneen de la Photographie, Corsica (2011); Steidl. Quand la photo devient livre, La Monnaie, Paris (2010); Detour, The Moleskin Notebook Experience, Bund 18, Shanghai (2010); Human Rites, Bass Museum, Miami (2010).
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Massimo Vitali
Entering a new world 27 November 2019Massimo Vitali will be presenting his new book Entering a new world in occasion of Paris Photo 2019 and it will collect images from 2009...Read more -
Extraordinary Visions, Italy
Massimo Vitali 27 November 2019Twenty internationally renowned authors and over 100 photographers for the exhibition Extraordinary Visions, Italy, which will be held at the Italian Cultural Institute New Delhi...Read more
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Investec Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa 15 - 17 February 2019Eduardo Secci has the pleasure to anounce its participation to CAPE TOWN ART FAIR, 2019. The booth will feature works by represented artists: Massimo Vitali,...Read more -
ART MIAMI 2018
Miami, FL, USA 4 - 9 December 2018Art Miami is the leading international contemporary and modern art fair that takes place each December during art week at the midtown Miami complex in...Read more -
DALLAS ART FAIR 2018
Dallas, USA 13 - 15 April 2018Eduardo Secci has the pleasure to anounce its participation to DALLAS ART FAIR, 2018.The booth will feature works by represented artists: Alice Browne, Maurizio Donzelli,...Read more -
ZONA MACO 2018
Mexico City, Mexico 7 - 11 February 2018Eduardo Secci has the pleasure to anounce its participation to ZONA MACO, 2018.The booth will feature works by represented artist: Bertozzi & Casoni, Maurizio Donzelli,...Read more -
EXPO CHICAGO 2016
Chicago, USA 22 - 25 November 2016Eduardo Secci Contemporary has the pleasure to participate for the first time to EXPO CHICAGO 2016. EXPO CHICAGO/2016 presents 145 leading galleries representing 23 countries...Read more -
Arte Fiera Bologna 2016
Bologna, Italy 29 January - 1 February 2016Arte Fiera in Bologna is set to celebrate its most important edition: 2016 will be the 40th anniversary of the international modern and contemporary art...Read more