Schiavo Mazzonis Gallery

Born in Como, Italy in 1976. Lives and works between Milan and Montreal.

After his Diploma at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, he started taking part in exhibitions in Italy and abroad. Since his early works he develops a specific attention to the forms of design and architecture, questioning the materials that constitute them and their formal values.

"To find a new image in an existing form and to discover a different potentiality inside an object are fundamental aspects of my approach. I'm fascinated by the world of design and architecture. I work with design objects, architectural projects, images or works of other artists, trying to identify and capture a new functionality, a new scale, a new reality for them. I'm interested in the design practice: I add, subtract, work, and appropriate myself of something already existing, finding for it new potentialities and reshaping it in a new form and context".

Selected exhibitions include:
M/S/M, Molinari Foundation, Montréal, Canada, 2011; Tuti Fruti, Cura-Commercial Road Project, London Metropolitan University, London, UK, 2011; L'Ultima sigaretta, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome, 2011; Totem and Taboo, Museum Quartier Wien, Austria, 2011; Manimal, Kaleidoscope Space, Milan, 2010; La Scultura Italiana del XXI secolo, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, 2010; SI - Sindrome Italiana: La jeune création artistique italienne, Le Magasin-Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France 2010; A Basic Human Impulse, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Gorizia, 2010; Cicognino, Optica Centre for Contemporary Art, Montréal, 2009; Networks, Federica Schiavo Gallery, Rome; Actions: What You Can Do With the City, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, Canada 2009; Andrea Sala Plays Chancey Gardner, Galleria Monica De Cardenas, Milan, 2008; Allunaggio and Other Landings, MACO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Mexico, 2007; Con altri occhi, Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, 2006; IX Biennale di Architettura di Venezia, section 'Notizie dall'Interno' 2004; Prototipi, Fondazioni Adriano Olivetti , Rome, 2003; Exit, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, 2002.