Artist Statement/ Biography

Giovanni Chiamenti’s artist practice focuses on the relationship between man and nature. He tries to create forms that investigate space, changing the point of view and inspecting our impact on the environment. During the last years his research has focused on the interrelations created between every living creature. These practices of co-habiting and co-existing have made the evolution of the species possible and have been categorized by neologisms such as sympoiesis and symbiogenesis. This field of research has led him to conceptualize a new organic glossary of a not-so-far-fetched future in which animal and plant will hybridize as a result of their capacities to evolve and adapt to an increasingly hostile environment threatened by plastic pollution and consumption.

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Giovanni Chiamenti (Verona, 1992) lives and works in Milan. He obtained his MFA at the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera in Milan in 2017. In 2016/17 he undertook the Erasmus + program at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Brussels. He exhibited in group exhibitions in Italy and abroad at the Museo delle Mura (Rome), Atelier 34zèro Muzeum (Bruxelles), Galería Fran Reus (Palma di Maiorca), Art Noble Gallery (Milan). He has been artist-in-residence at School of Visual Arts (New York), VIR viafarini-in-residence (Milan), VIAINDUSTRIAE (Foligno) and The Blank Contemporary Art (Bergamo). In 2020 he was one of the winners of COMBAT Prize. In 2021 h had two solo exhibitions at Galleria Daniele Agostini (Lugano) and at Galleria Marrocco (Naples).