Gioele Amaro
Gioele Amaro has approached the digital as an idea, a subject and as a way of being in the world, rather than as a technique in itself. Amaro's tight and carefully considered aesthetics are mixed with an experimental and playful impulse, that becomes a framework for a simultaneously chaotic, conceptual and experimental space filled with references, comments and paraphrases of art history and its motifs.
The premise of Gioele Amaro's work is that both digital and physical images are constantly changing and dependent on our gaze. This playful and constant transformation results in a space that juxtaposes a multitude of expressive narratives and outcomes.
As much as Amaro works with the abstract as part of an ephemeral visual state, he also works with the distortion of familiar motifs and icons. Several of Amaro's works paraphrase, or directly derive their "motifs", from works from art history or digital pop culture. These are processed until they are in a sensual place between abstraction and recognition. With this reinterpretation, Amaro's work speaks to a digital image-culture where filters, infinite layers of mediation, and rapid exchange and circulation are an inevitable condition and premise for our way of experiencing the visual world.
Gioele Amaro (IT), lives and works in Paris. He is a trained architect and has worked with the renowned architect Jean Nouvel. Gioele Amaro has participated in major international exhibitions at, among others, Almine Rech, Reinhard Hauff, Balice Hertling, Hight Art, Cuturi Gallery and Galerie Untilthen. Gioele Amaro's works can be found in a large number of private and public collections.
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
GIOELE AMARO FOR MAISON VALENTINO, PARIS
Misplaced Narratives
Gioele Amaro: Q&A
2gether
CV
Born 1986, Reggio Calabria, Italy.
Lives and works between Paris and Milan
EDUCATION
2006 - 2007
Master of Art and Architecture, La Villette, Paris
2003 - 2005
Degree, University of Art and Architecture Mediterranea, Reggio Calabria
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Galerie Forsblom, ‘Gods and Losers’, Helsinki
Gioele Amaro for Maison Valentino, flagship store Paris
2022
Gether Contemporary, ‘Misplaced Narratives’, Copenhagen
Almine Rech, ‘The Wall’, Brussels
Almine Rech, ‘OffsetSunset’, Shanghai
2021
Sothebys, ‘DigitalDust’, Paris
DnA Museum of Contemporary Art, HdM gallery, ‘Gioele Amaro’, Shenzhen
Reinhard Hauff gallery, ‘Gioele Amaro’, Stuttgart
2018
Galerie BaliceHertling, ‘The copyist’, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Gether Contemporary, ‘DARE TO DREAM’, Copenhagen
2022
‘Re-Signify by Valentino’, Beijing, China
Gether Contemporary, ‘2gether’, Duo Show, Copenhagen
2020
Almine Rech, ‘Water always move on’, Bruxelles
Cassina Flagship Store, ‘Cassina Perspectives’, Milan
Almine Rech, ‘Cosmocow’, Bruxelles
Badr El Jundi, ‘Constructing an Imaginary’, Marbella
2019
Orsay Museum, ‘J-K-Huysmans Critique d’art’, Paris
SELECTED PROJECTS
2018
Galerie Untilthen, ‘All we have is what our childhood gave us’, Group Show, Curator, Paris
2010 - 2017
Francesco Vezzoli, Studio Manager, Milan
2010
Louvre Abu Dhabi, ‘Architectural studies’, Abu Dhabi
National Museum of Qatar, Architectural studies, Doha
2008 - 2010
Atelier Jean Nouvel, Architect, Paris
COLLABORATIONS
2017
Fondazione Prada, ‘Tv 70’, an exhibition curated by F. Vezzoli, producer, Milan
2016
NMNM, Monaco National Museum, Villa Marlene, an exhibition by F. Vezzoli, installation, Monaco
2015
OCA, The Ibirapuera Pavillion, Teatro Vezzoli, an exhibition by F. Vezzoli, installation, San Paulo
2014
MOMA PS1, Museum of Contemporary Art, Teatro Vezzoli, an exhibition by F. Vezzoli, design, New York
2013
MAXXI, National Museum of XX Century, a solo show by F. Vezzoli, installation, Rome
2012
Almine Rech, ‘Olga Forever!’, installation, Brussels
2011
Gagosian Gallery, ‘Sacrilegio’, a solo show by F. Vezzoli, installation, Rome
2010
Garage Museum Of Contemporary Art, ‘Ballets Russe’, Italian Style, installation, Moscow