B I O G R A P H Y
Mauro Pipani
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Mauro Pipani's multifaceted artistic career starts in Bologna in the 1970s and develops over time through a deep and dynamic personal research and academic teaching, between Cesena and Verona. In his works, the memories of his native places of Riviera Romagnola symbiotically interact with the outside world in continuous evolution, in an ever renewed light that is rooted in the past (never meant in a purely nostalgic way), gives life to the present and projects into the future.
The pictorial space with its layers of gauze, fabrics, glued papers, metal fragments, resins, and with the typically monochrome backgrounds of whites and grays, becomes a sort of musical staff, on which Mauro Pipani composes his melody of signs, traces and vibrant words, in an almost suspended space-time dimension. Memories, hopes, visions for the future and glimpses of the present are intertwined in the artist's interiority and find their tangible shape in the material support, through a pictorial and poetic discourse which is, for its intimate and authentic nature, open.
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Mauro Pipani lives and works in Cesena and Verona. He carries out his artistic activity through painting, photography and design and he has dozens of personal and collective exhibitions of national and international importance; he is present in the Art circuit with important galleries. Pipani is a professor of Painting and Painting Techniques at the Academy of Fine Arts in Verona, and he carries out his artistic activity between Oriola (a small hillside district of Cesena, FC) Verona and Brescia.
Artistic formation and first exhibitions:
In the 70s, during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna with Pompilio Mandelli, Mauro Pipani made his debut in the Bolognese art scene with the collective “la Comune”, a group of young artists directed by Dario Fo (1972). He was also one of the founders of the collective of via delle Biscie, which acted in a space, Villa Enrica, entrusted in management by the municipality of Bologna, which in 1973 introduced itself at the Feltrinelli Library in Bologna. The exponents of the group (who were very young and socially committed) faced the first still juvenile artistic experiments and immediately got noticed: in the same year, they participated in the prestigious Suzzara Prize and caught the interest of Mario De Micheli, who in 1975 presented an exhibition of the collective at the Galvani Municipal Gallery in Bologna. In the same years, the attendance of the literary and poetic group gathered around the magazine “Sul porto” (founded by the poets Ferruccio Benzoni, Stefano Simoncelli and Walter Valeri), was also fundamental. Thanks to these connections, Mauro Pipani got in touch with figures such as the elderly Alfonso Gatto, a great link between literary culture and visual arts, Franco Fortini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Dario Bellezza and, above all, Dario Fo; in this period, Pipani also collaborated at the “Comune” in the excited season of the Palazzina Liberty.
His main exhibitions include:
1998: Acque di Superficie [Surface Waters],
curated by Marco Meneguzzo - Cervia Municipal Theatre
2001: Figure del Novecento 2. Oltre l’Accademia [20th Century Figures 2. Beyond the Academy], invited by Adriano Baccilieri
at Pinacoteca Civica and the Accademia di Belle Arti, Bologna
2003: Ossidiane [Obsidians], curated by Alberto Zanchetta
San Salvatore Gallery, Modena
2015:
Gli alberi sono anime [Trees are souls], text in catalogue by Marisa Zattini - Santa Croce Municipal Gallery - Royal Museum of Cattolica.
Arborea, solo show curated by Renato Barilli and Annamaria Bernucci - Villa Torlonia, San Mauro Pascoli – Oratory of San Rocco, Gatteo
2016:
Antropocene – Autunno Contemporaneo [Anthropocene Contemporary Autumn], curated by Raffaele Quattrone Basilica di Santa Rita, Roma
Biennale del Disegno di Rimini [Rimini Drawing Biennale], curated by Massimo Pulini, Annamaria Bernucci,
Andrea Lo Savio – Rimini City Museum
New Faustian World - un libro e un film [New Faustian World
a book and a film], curated by Raffaele Quattrone, consisting of a group of 17 international artists, published by “il Sole 24 Ore”
2019:
Luoghi Riflessi [Reflected places], monograph
by Flaminio Gualdoni - Casa Museo Marino Moretti, Cesenatico.
AER, in collaboration with the Primo Piano Art Gallery, Rimini installation project for Art City Bologna to coincide with ArteFiera - Residenza Incamminati.
2021: Salis, curated by Vittoria Coen in collaboration with
Beatrice Burati Anderson, Venice – Cervia Salt Warehouses
2022:
HOPE! - Beatrice Burati Anderson Gallery (online event).
Futuro (da) remoto [Future, remotely] - Biennale del Disegno
di Rimini [Rimini Drawing Biennale] (online event)
2023
Autoritratto di un luogo [Self-portrait of a place], with essay by Sandro Sproccati - Danilo Montanari publisher
Sospiro [Breath], curated by Alessandro Mescoli - Castelnuovo Rangone Municipality, Modena
2024
Per una fine d’inverno [For the end of a winter] - Salaborsa Library, Bologna - Artcity White Night, ArteFiera,
in collaboration with the Ferruccio Benzoni Association
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Spazi di un paesaggio [Spaces of a Landscape],
curated by Claudio Spadoni former Santo Spirito Church, Cesena
Noweapon.world Venezia- Genova - Amsterdam, promoting Art for Peace: Using art as a tool to spread a message of peace and non-violence, showcasing the devastating consequences of arms on society
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They have written for him:
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Valentina Rippa
Beatrice Burati Anderson
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