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B I O G R A P H Y

Mauro Pipani

Mauro Pipani lives and works in Cesena. He carries out his artistic work through painting, drawing, and installation, boasting dozens of solo and group exhibitions of national and international significance, as well as collaborations with major art galleries. He is a Professor of Painting and Painting Techniques at the Santa Giulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, following teaching experiences in Verona and Bologna. Within the contemporary art landscape, Pipani’s research stands out for its profound investigation into memory, places, and the sensitive nature of things. His painting develops through a refined poetic and material register, where gauze, paper, resins, and wooden supports overlap in sheer glazes and atmospheric transparencies. The work becomes a territory of visual and conceptual layerings, in which graphic marks intertwine with light and poetic word, creating intimate and contemplative visions suspended between abstraction and the suggestion of landscape. His works are included in public and private collections in Italy and abroad. Since 2025, he has held the position of Curator and Director of the Giuseppe Ugonia Civic Museum, the Dalmonte Gallery, and the exhibition spaces of the Municipality of Brisighella (Ravenna).

Artistic Training and Early Exhibitions

In the 1970s, during his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna under Pompilio Mandelli, he made his debut in the Bolognese art scene with the collective "La Comune", directed by Dario Fo (1972). He was among the founders of the Via delle Biscie collective (1973) and, in the same year, participated in the Suzzara Prize, capturing the interest of Mario De Micheli, who curated the group's exhibition at the Galvani Municipal Gallery in Bologna in 1975. During this period, his involvement with the poetry group connected to the journal "Sul porto" and his collaboration at the Palazzina Liberty with Dario Fo were fundamental.

Curatorial Work and Cultural Promotion

Starting from 2025, he continues and intensifies his activity as a curator and cultural promoter with the exhibition cycle TRANSITI, which he conceived for the Municipality of Brisighella at the "Giuseppe Ugonia" Civic Museum and the "Domenico Dalmonte" Gallery. An articulated, multi-year project centered on transition, mutation, and intergenerational dialogue between 20th-century masters, contemporary research, and young talents.

At the beginning of 2026, he curates the major anthological exhibition VELDA PONTI. Trame di Luce (Weaves of Light), a critical homage to the painting and chromatic sensitivity of the Faenza-born artist, highlighting her free gestural style and affinities with European post-war avant-gardes.

Following this, as part of the TRANSITI series, he curates the group exhibition SOSTE. di impulsi, flussi e bestie (PAUSES: Of Impulses, Flows, and Beasts), featuring artists Asia Galeati, Alice Neri, and Esmeralda Spada in a collective investigation into the concept of active pause, memory, and the mutation of matter.

The program is further enriched by the module TRANSITI. Il paesaggio come condizione dell'essere (TRANSITI: The Landscape as a Condition of Being), a special project created in collaboration with young artists from the Santa Giulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia, in which the landscape is explored no longer as a mere geographical space, but as an inner, emotional, and conceptual dimension of existence. The TRANSITI cycle continues through the end of the year, unfolding in further exhibition stages, with upcoming shows focused on themes of contemporary visual language and the surrounding territory.

Main Exhibitions and Projects

1998 – 2015: Debuts with Acque di Superficie (curated by Marco Meneguzzo, 1998); participates in Figure del Novecento 2 (Pinacoteca di Bologna, 2001, invited by Adriano Baccilieri) and presents Ossidiane (curated by Alberto Zanchetta, 2003). In 2015, he exhibits Gli alberi sono Anime (curated by Annamaria Bernucci) and Arborea (curated by Renato Barilli).
2016 – 2018: Participates in the Rimini Drawing Biennale (2016 and 2018 editions) and is included in the international project New Faustian World curated by Raffaele Quattrone. Exhibits in the group show Sironi e il Contemporaneo (Augeo Artspace, Rimini).
2019: Publishes the monograph Luoghi Riflessi (curated by Flaminio Gualdoni), presented alongside a solo exhibition at Casa Moretti (Cesenatico). Presents the solo exhibition Multiversi (Wunderkammer Dislocata, Vignola, curated by Lucia Biolchini), the installation Nautilus in Venice (Beatrice Burati Anderson Art Space & Gallery, for New Faustian World curated by Raffaele Quattrone), participates in ArtVerona, and opens the solo show Atmosferica (curated by Franco Bertoni) at the Ugonia Museum in Brisighella (Ravenna).
2020: Creates the installation AER for Art City Bologna / Artefiera. Publishes the art book Autoritratto di un luogo (Danilo Montanari Editore, featuring an essay by Sandro Sproccati) and participates in ArtVerona Digital as well as online exhibition projects during lockdown (HOPE! project for Beatrice Burati Anderson Gallery and Camera D’ascolto curated by Lucia Biolchini).
2021: Presents the major solo exhibition SALIS at the Magazzini del Sale in Cervia (curated by Vittoria Coen) and the solo show Rena at Augeo Art Space in Rimini.
2022: Opens the two-person exhibition Winter Seas in Venice (Beatrice Burati Anderson Gallery, curated by Valentina Rippa and Beatrice Burati Anderson) and, following a preview at Villa Monty Banks (Cesena), presents the site-specific project SALIS Venezia at Palazzo Tiraboschi (curated by Vittoria Coen).
2023: Inaugurates the CRAC Arte space in Castelnuovo Rangone (Modena) with Sospiro (curated by Alessandro Mescoli and Chiara Wang). Publishes the limited edition Intarsio di luce (ed. Orme Leggere) featuring poetry by Ferruccio Benzoni.
2024: Creates the installation Per una fine d'inverno in Sala Borsa, Bologna (ArtWeek), a tribute to poetry and his friendship with Ferruccio Benzoni, as well as the major solo exhibition Spazi di un paesaggio at the former Church of Santo Spirito in Cesena (curated by Claudio Spadoni). Curates and exhibits in Il respiro dello sguardo at Casa Pascoli (San Mauro Pascoli, curated by Mauro Pipani and Nadia Lazzarini) and presents the solo show Über die Ferne oltre il lontano at Galleria Monopoli in Milan (curated by Flaminio Gualdoni). Also takes part in the international project Noweapon.world (Venice – Genoa – Amsterdam).
2025: Creates the site-specific installations Geografie della Grazia at the Church of S. Maria delle Grazie in Furlo and the Lavatoio in Fermignano (Pesaro and Urbino). Presents the exhibition Ichnos. Disegni multipli e grafiche 2014-2025 at Galleria Wundergrafik in Forlì (curated by Marisa Zattini).
2026: Participates in the group exhibition Destinatario Sconosciuto (Spazio Blue Train / The Kitchen Art Gallery, Milan), exhibits in the solo show Trame di Presenza (IL VICOLO divisione Arte, Cesena, curated by Marisa Zattini and Andrea Pompili), and takes part in Gradara Contemporanea (Palazzo Rubini / Il Conventino, Gradara).