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
2024
Missing Figure, Almine Rech, London
Crescendo, HdM gallery, Singapore
2023
Gods and Losers, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
Gioele Amaro for Maison Valentino, flagship store Paris
Re-Signify, Maison Valentino avenue de I'Opéra, Paris
Lies and Illusions, Reinhard Hauff Gallery, Stuttgart
2022
Just a painting, Almine Rech, Paris
Misplaced Narratives, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
The Wall, Almine Rech, Brussels
Shade and Shadow, 1905 Art Space, Shanghai
Preraphaelite Memory, Almine Rech, Paris
OffsetSunset, Almine Rech, Shanghai
2021
DigitalDust, Sotheby's, Paris
Gioele Amaro, DnA Museum of Contemporary Art, HdM gallery, Shenzhen
Gioele Amaro, Reinhard Hauff gallery, Stuttgart
2018
The copyist, Galerie BaliceHertling, Paris
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
X, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2023
Rufus Wainwright Retrospective, Videos Philharmonie de Paris, Paris
DARE TO DREAM, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2022
Re-Signify by Valentino, Beijing, China
2gether, duo show, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen
2020
Water always moves on, Almine Rech, Bruxelles
Cassina Perspectives, Cassina Flagship Store, Milan
Cosmocow, Almine Rech, Bruxelles
Constructing an Imaginary, Badr El Jundi, Marbella
2019
J-K-Huysmans Critique d’art, Orsay Museum, Paris
2018
All we have is what our childhood gave us, Galerie Untilthen, Paris
SELECTED PROJECTS
2022
AlteredHorizons, project with Ruinart at MiArt Fair, Milan
2010 - 2017
Francesco Vezzoli, Studio Manager, Milan
2010
Architectural studies, Louvre Abu Dhabi, 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