Federico Cantale
Legnano, 1996
Federico Cantale lives and works in Milan. Cantale’s sculptural research investigates the sensitive knowledge of forms through visual discoveries and intuitions from everyday life and human history. His works are characterised by a spontaneous and varied visual vocabulary, the result of a system of representation governed by the relationship between geometry and figuration. The subjects are not chosen a priori but developed from sculptural thought and by their imaginative qualities. It is indeed the observation of the world and the desire to show it to us with a new gaze that underlies Cantale‘s practice – an approach based on the artist’s responsibility towards the history of visual culture and the transmission of the ability to imagine.
Selected solo and duo exhibitions
solo exhibition at Triangolo, Cremona, IT (upcoming)
OPERE LIBERE, Triangolo, Cremona, IT
SOGNIDORO, Spazio Sanpaolo Invest, Treviglio (BG), IT, text by Caterina Molteni
GUARDAROBA, Foyer, Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery, Milan, IT, text by Alberto Parisi
Selected group exhibitions
UNSTABLE CONDITION, South Parade, London, UK, co-organised by Triangolo with Valentina Bartalesi
FRAGILITY - The Dance of Life and Death, SPA | Spazio Per Arte, Oleggio, IT, curated by Rischa Paterlini and Domenico de Chirico
CREMONA ART WEEK, Palazzo del Comune, Cremona, IT, curated by Rossella Farinotti
How far should we go?, Fondazione ICA, Milan, IT
BAITBALL PROJECT 02, Palazzo San Giuseppe (Ex Museo Pino Pascali), Polignano a Mare, IT, organized by Like A Little Disaster and PANE project
Primary Domain, Ordet, Milan, IT, exhibition architecture by Armature global
NOI X SEMPRE, Studiolo, Milan, IT
ASA NISI MASA, The House, Milan, IT, curated by Irene Sofia Comi
A healthy dose of confusion before the bang, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Milan, IT
Passion for the path of art, Cardi Gallery, Milan, IT, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa
NOI X SEMPRE, Yellow, Varese, IT, text by Simone Ciglia
CHAPTER 3 (WINTER), Residenza La Fornace, curated by Edoardo Manzoni and Giada Olivotto
AMARETTO, Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, MB, IT, organized by Giacomo Montanelli
INCONTRO #14 – THE CALL TO ADVENTURE, Fondazione Pini, Milan, IT
L’ESOTICO E ALTRI DESIDERI, Loom Gallery, Milan, IT
ZEITKAPSEL, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany, curated by Ingrid Burgbacher-Krupka
Residencies and prize
GRANDE RÉSIDENCE, Fondation Bugnon, Château-d’Œx, CH
NUOVO GRAND TOUR, Fondation Fiminco, Romainville, Paris, FR
FOSFORO IMMORTALE, Cantieri Aperti, Massa (MS), IT, curated by Alessandra Franetovich and Giulio Saverio Rossi
MANDRANOVA IN RESIDENCE, Palma di Montechiaro (AG), Sicily, IT, curated by Cabinet
BAGNI D’ARIA, Frassinetto, Turin, IT, curated by Caterina Molteni, Alice Visentin, Mattia Pajè
ULTRAVIOLETTO – Venetian Gold Marble srl, curated by Sonia Belfiore
PREMIO CITTA’ DI TREVIGLIO 2020 – Sanpaolo Invest prize (winner)
PREMIO FRANCESCO FABBRI 2020 – Special prize (winner)
ON METAMORPHOSIS – Luca Trevisani and Emanuele Coccia, The Classroom, Fondazione ICA, Milan, IT, curated by Paola Nicolin
CHAPTER 3 (WINTER), Residenza La Fornace, IT, curated by Edoardo Manzoni and Giada Olivotto
WORKSHOP WITH MATT MULLICAN, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, IT, curated by Giovanna Amadasi
THE CLASSROOM – Piero Golia, Diego Perrone on Chris Burden , Milan, IT, curated by Paola Nicolin