Ettore Favini

Cremona, 1974

Ettore Favini

Cremona, 1974

Favini taps the experience of listening to “minor” narratives to fuel works that map the relationship between people and their environment. His works, which tend to be site-specific, are developed through a long growth process that renders them living organism, never truly finished: open-ended devices of vision in which the work partakes in life and the viewer become an active participant. Since 2015 he has been carrying out investigative work on the Mediterranean identity and its contradictions

He is currently a member of the Visual Arts faculty of NABA – the New Academy of Fine Arts – in Milan and teaching painting at Accademia G. Carrara, Bergamo

Solo exibitions

  • 2020

    Au revoir, Carré d’Art Contemporaine, Nîmes (F)*

  • 2019

    After Leonardo, Museo del Novecento, Milano (I)  /  Nouvelles Flaneries II, progetto pubblico/public project, Parma (I)*

  • 2017

    Mediterraneo, Port Tonic Art Center, Les Issambres, (F)   / Mirupafshim, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Tirana, (AL) special project Biennale Mediterranea18

  • 2016

    Arrivederci, Museo Man, Nuoro (I)*  /  Arrivederci, Museo di Villa Croce, Genova (I)*

  • 2014

    You certainly took your sweet time, CO2, Turin

  • 2013

    Verdecuratoda…voi, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome

  • 2012

    The Sun behind the clouds, PAV, Torino* (I)  /  Sun Ra, Marsèlleria, Milan (I)

  • 2011

    All in a good time, David Adamo and Ettore Favini, Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo*(I)  /  Paesaggio da bere, PPS/Meetings#2, Riso Museum, Palermo (I)

  • 2010

    Walden Method, MAR Museum of the Town of Ravenna, Ravenna* (I)  /  La Verde Utopia, PAV, Turin* (I)

  • 2007

    Private View, The Italian academy, New York* (US)  /  Ettore Favini, Galleria Alessandro de March, Milan (I)

  • 2006

    Il mio papà, Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, Rome, (I)

  • 2005

    Rough End, Galleria Alessandro de March, Milan (I)

Selected group exhibitions

  • 2021

    The Poetry of Translation (WT), Kunst Merano Art, Merano (upcoming)

  • 2020

    Champs Libres, Maif Social Club, Paris

  • 2017

    Autostrada Biennale, Prizren* (K), curated by Manray Hsu  /  Global Learning, MA.GA, Gallarate* (I)  /  Moroso concept for contemporary art, Museo Etnografico del Friuli, Udine* (I)

  • 2016

    Urban Mining/Rigenerazioni Urbane, MA.GA Gallarate* (I), curated by Michele Dantini, Carolina Italiano, Ada Chiara Zevi, Emma Zanella, Alessandro Castiglioni

  • 2015

    A movie selection of Glitch, OCAT, Shanghai, (RC), curated by Davide Giannella  /  Club of Matineé Idolz, CO2, Turin  /  INTRO, Giorgio Galotti, Turin

  • 2014

    Glitch, Interferenze tra arte e cinema, PAC, Milan, (I) curated by Davide Giannella  /  1+1 =3, Archaeological Museum, Cremona, (I)  /  We hare never been modern, SongEun ArtSpace, Seoul *(ROK), curated by Maria Rosa Sossai  /  Tropical, Carré du Temple, Paris (F)

  • 2013

    The Cock Crow, CO2 Gallery, Turin *(I)  /  La Terra si muove con il Senso, Galleria del Premio, Suzzara (I)  /  Milano ed Oltre, Triennale Museum, Milan (I)

  • 2012

    Fuoriclasse, Museum of Modern Art, Milan, curated by Luca Cerizza* (I)  /  Metamorphosis, Museum of Modern Art, Udine curated by Andrea Bruciati* (I)  /  Hidden Place and Identity, Manifesta, Genk, Belgium curated by M. Sacchetto and Berardi* (BE)  /  Family Talk, Futura Project, Prague curated by Marco Antonini (CZ)  /  Take the Leap, Peep Hole, Milan (I)

  • 2011

    Time to be Green, MART, Rovereto, curated by Denis Isaia (I)  /  Il Teatro delle Esposizioni, Villa Medici, Academie de France, Rome, curated by Marcello Smarrelli* (I)  /  UN’ITA, Industria Gallery, New York, curated by Arianna Rosica* (US)

Special projects

  • 2020
    Top100, with Davide Bertocchi, Centre Pompidou, Metz; Dos Mares, Marseille (F)
  • 2018
    The Magic Kingdom, Sergio Rossi Headquarters, San Mauro Pascoli (I)
  • 2017
    Historicode, Nanjing International Art Festival, Nanjing (RC)
  • 2015
    Sillage, Save the Children Pavillion, EXPO Milan, (I), curated by Marcello Smarelli
  • 2014
    Oggetti Sociali, workshop for Fondazione Ermanno Casoli, Villa Panza di Biumo, Varese (I) / 100 years of CONI, Foro Italico, Rome (I), curated by B. Pietromarchi and M. Alicata
  • 2013
    RSVP, Palazzo Bindi Sergardi, Siena (I) / Nella Terra di Mezzo, Villa Panza di Biumo, Varese (I), curated by Maria Rosa Sossai
  • 2012
    – Ipotesi di Finito#3, Exhibiting Museums, Artissima18, Turin (I) / Verdiacque, XIII Architecture Biennal of Venice, Special Project, Venice (I) / Condividere è connettere, BRICO, Milan curated by Fondazione Ermanno Casoli / Personal effects on sale, Pavillon de l’esprit nuoveau, Bologne
  • 2011
    Panorama, Ex Magazzini Latini, Fabriano, curated by Marcello Smarrelli
  • 2009
    2010
    Green University, LUISS University, Rome, Project Nouveaux Commanditaires, Fondazione Olivetti curated by Maria Alicata
  • 2008
    E-STRAORDINARIO, from the project to the object, curated by Marcello Smarrelli, Ermanno Casoli Foundation and Elica Spa, Fabriano (AN) / Passaggi#1, Ermanno Casoli Foundation, Sanctuary of St. Maria, Monsano (AN) / Fostering The Garden, Summer Symposium DENA Foundation at Sol le Witt Foundation in Praiano (SA)
  • 2006
    Green Island, Binario 21, Garibaldi railway station, Milan curated by Claudia Zanfi

Awards / Residency

  • 2020
    The Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York, USA
  • 2019
    Italian Council, Mibact, DGAAP, Italy
  • 2017
    Atla(S)now, Marrakech/Imil (MA) / Port Tonic Art Center, Les Issambres (F) / NCTM e l’arte, IX edition, Milan (I)
  • 2016
    XXV Gallarate Prize, Gallarate (I), MA.GA Museo
  • 2014
    Finalist, Coal Prix 2014, Paris (F) – Museè de la Chasse et de la Nature
  • 2013
    Visiting Professor, Aperto_art on the border, Valcamonica(I) – with Stefano Boccalini / Award, 48° Premio Suzzara, Suzzara (I) – with Antonio Rovaldi
  • 2012
    Award, Portali dello Scompiglio, Lucca (I) – with Antonio Rovaldi / Residency, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, New York/Umbertide (US/I)
  • 2010
    Special Mention MOROSO Award for the contemporary Art, GC.AC, Monfalcone (I)
  • 2009
    2° place ex aequo, Castello di Rivoli Prize, Turin (I)
  • 2007
    Award “New York Prize”, Italian Academy at the Columbia University, Nyc (US)
  • 2006
    Award “Torino e Milano incontrano l’Arte”, Turin (I)

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