About
Mauro Moriconi was born in Lucca in 1980. After completing his studies at the artistic high school in Lucca, he moved to Florence where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts. From 2003 to 2004 he lived and worked in Lisbon, where he continued his academic studies and organized the his first solo exhibition. Returning to Florence in 2004, he conducted an in-depth study on the work of the artist Mimmo Rotella, whom he met in his studio in Milan and from whom he learned the décollage technique, which later merged into his work on his degree thesis. Between 2004 and 2007 he exhibited his works created with the technique learned from Rotella at the Ken's Art Gallery in Florence. In 2007 Moriconi created his first photographic plate engraved on aluminium: this innovative technique marked an expressive turning point for the artist and became the key to the success that led him to collaborate with the Catm Ny Gallery in New York and the Soho Gallery in Beverly Hills in the USA.
In 2008 he obtained recognition from the Municipality of Prato as best emerging artist. In 2011 he began his collaboration with the Die Mauer Contemporary Art Gallery in Prato, and in 2013 he was selected for the International Photography Fair in Milan Mia Fair, where his photographic series Le Cirque gained the attention of the press. In 2015 he was selected by the Luigi Pecci Center for Contemporary Art in Prato for the TU35 exhibition. In 2017 he participated again in the International Photography Fair in Milan Mia Fair with the Un-familiar series and its reinterpretation in the Polaroid version. In 2017 FBML organizes its first retrospective. In 2019 he was highlighted at the contemporary art fair Affordable Art Fair in Milan for his original use of a mix of art and new technologies. In 2020 he presents the TONDO series for the first time at the Studio 38 gallery in Pistoia and is part of the selection of artists who will participate in the Mia Fair International Photography Fair in Milan". In 2022 some works are installed, as a hymn to peace and beauty, on the Arch of Friendship in Kiev during the period of the first Russian bombings, and on the Azadi Tower in Tehran, challenging the presence of local militias. His art is the subject of research and study in the academic field. In 2024 he obtained the direction of the Soffici Museum and of the Italian 20th century in Poggio a Caiano.
BORN
Lucca, Italy, 1980
EDUCATION
2007 Teaching certificate for HISTORY OF ART
2005 Academy of Fine Arts – Florence – Italy
2004 Academy of Fine Arts – Lisbon - Portugal
1999 Art School - Lucca - Italy
DIRECTOR
2024 Museo Soffici e del '900 italiano, Poggio a Caiano, Prato, Italy
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COOPERATIONS
2008
MARIO RIZZI, Workshop at the “Officina Giovani”, Prato, Italy
2004
MIMMO ROTELLA, Final thesis for the Academy of Fine Arts – Florence – Italy
AWARDS AND HONORS
2008
Premio Artistico V Edizione, “L’Acqua, La Natura e le Donne”, 2nd place
Premio Celeste on-line, 2nd place
2007
“PRATO E I SUOI TALENTI”, Award of the Province of Prato.
FAIRS
2024
Art Parma Fair, Parma, Italy
2023
Art Parma Fair, Parma, Italy
Arte Padova, Padova, Italy
2022
Mia Photo Fair, Milan, Italy
2021
Mia Photo Fair, Milan, Italy
Roma Arte in Nuvola, Rome, Italy
Art Parma Fair, Parma, Italy
2019
Affordable Art fair
2017
Mia Photo Fair 2017
THE MALL - Milan, Italy
2013
Mia Photo Fair, Milan, Italy.
2012
The Others Fair, Turin, Italy.
EXHIBITIONS
2024
"Sopravvissuti", Provincia di Prato, Palazzo Banco Buonamici, Prato, Italy
2023
“Mondo Tondo”, Galleria 93, Prato, Italy
100x100, Sincresis, Empoli, Firenze, Italy
2022
"WOW", Villa Bertelli, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
2021
"GIROTONDI", Punto 65, Turin, Italy
2020
"TONDI", Studio 38, Pistoia, Italy
2019
I MILLE DI SGARBI,Cervia, Italy
ABSTRACT, Villa Brentano, Busto Garolfo - MI, Italy
SOPRAVVISSUTI, Scuderie Medicee, Poggio a Caiano - PO, Italy
"DENTRO LA COLLEZIONE", Fondazione BML, Lucca, Italy
2018
"ESTASI", Fortezza Vecchia, Livorno, Italy
"BAZAR 10+5", SPAZIO LATO, Prato, Italy
2017
"MAURO MORICONI", Fondazione BML, Lucca, Italy
"UN-FAMILIAR POLAROID", Studio 38, Pistoia, Italy
2016
"UN-FAMILIAR", Biblioteca Lazzerini, Prato, Italy
2015
"TU35 LUCCA", progetto Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Officina Giovani, Prato, Italy
“New Japonisme”, Soho Gallery Beverly Hills, Usa
2014
"INFERNO DI DANTE", Die Mauer, Prato.
2013
"Le Cirque", Die Mauer, Prato.
2012
"My Plastic Japan", CATM Chelsea, NYC, USA.
2011
“DiE MaUeR”, Spazio Lato, Prato, Italy
“Circuiti Dinamici”, Associazione Circuiti Dinamici, Milan, Italy
2010
“Fund Art Now”, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, NYC, USA.
“ANNIVERSARY SHOW”, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, NYC, USA.
2009
“PHOTOSHOW”, Galleria 38, Lucca, Italy
“ART LIVE ‘09”, Chair and the Maiden Gallery, NYC, USA.
“ARTE (IN) ATTESA”, Circolo Velico di Torre del Lago, Viareggio, Italy.
“LE COSE NON SONO LE COSE”, Laboratorio 21, Viareggio, Lucca, Italy.
“LA FABBRICA DELLA CULTURA” Arte In Movimento, Forte dei Marmi, Lucca, Italy.
2008
”PREMIO CELESTE”, Fabbrica Borroni, Milan, Italy.
“LUMINOSCENCE”, Arte in Movimento, Pietrasanta, Italy.
2007
“INTEGRATION AND CONFLICT” Officina Giovani, Prato, Italy.
“GEMINE MUSE”, Quadreria di palazzo Comunale all'Archivio di Stato, Palazzo Datini, Prato, Italy.
“LA FORZA DELLA MATERIA, paesaggi e corpi in metamorfosi”, Studio Sant’Agnese, Milan, Italy.
2006
“Segni ‘06”, Galleria Il Cenacolo Felice Casorati in Campidoglio Turin, Italy.
“Pop & Chic”, Studio Santa Agnese, Milan, Italy.
2005
“Velina”, Pananti Casa d’Aste, Florence, Italy.
“SERIE”, Kens’s Art Gallery, Florence, Italy.