Federico Cantale

Legnano, 1996

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.

Solo exhibitions

2024

Opere Libere, Triangolo, Cremona, IT
2022

SOGNIDORO, Spazio Sanpaolo Invest, Treviglio (BG), IT
2021

GUARDAROBA, Foyer, Schiavo Zoppelli Gallery, Milan, IT

Selected group exhibitions

2022

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
2021

Primary Domain, Ordet, Milan, IT, exhibition architecture by Armature global

NOI X SEMPRE, Studiolo, Milan, IT

ENTR~ACTE, Renata Fabbri, Milan, IT

ASA NISI MASA, The House, Milan, IT, curated by Irene Sofia Comi
2020

A healthy dose of confusion before the bang, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Milan, IT
2019

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
2018

INCONTRO #14 – THE CALL TO ADVENTURE, Fondazione Pini, Milan, IT
2017

L’ESOTICO E ALTRI DESIDERI, Loom Gallery, Milan, IT
2016

ZEITKAPSEL, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Germany, curated by Ingrid Burgbacher-Krupka

Residencies and prize

2022

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
2021

BAGNI D’ARIA, Frassinetto, Turin, IT, curated by Caterina Molteni, Alice Visentin, Mattia Pajè

ULTRAVIOLETTO – Venetian Gold Marble srl, curated by Sonia Belfiore
2020

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
2019

CHAPTER 3 (WINTER), Residenza La Fornace, IT, curated by Edoardo Manzoni and Giada Olivotto
2018

WORKSHOP WITH MATT MULLICAN, Hangar Bicocca, Milan, IT, curated by Giovanna Amadasi
2017

THE CLASSROOM – Piero Golia, Diego Perrone on Chris Burden , Milan, IT, curated by Paola Nicolin