MAURIZIO CORONA
Maurizio Corona was born in Biella in 1952. He attended the Brera Academy in Milan. In 1973 he began his artistic activity. In 1977 it is the first significant photographic exhibition at the Kulturhuset in Stockholm “Christmas trees on Christmas night”. In the 1970s, Corona was located in Milan and shared the experience of the artists and intellectuals of that historical period. The 1978 exhibitions at the Il Diagramma Galleries, Milan and Forma, Genoa were significant; Paludetto, Turin and Wallner, Malmo will follow in 1980. The exhibition at Studio Grossetti in Milan makes him known to the public, and he travels to Rome. Here the most significant meeting of his young career takes place, the one with Fabio Sargentini who reopens the historic gallery, the Attico. He presents an exhibition in 1983 during which he meets Achille Bonito Oliva. Collaborate with Luigi de Ambrogi and Franco Toselli. Metropolitan training tightened on him and so he moved, on the Adda river, to Corneliano. Later Corona left for even more isolated shores, landed in Domsjo in Sweden. Despite having left his world, he feels extremely close to his origins, to his horizons. In this new artistic season he continues to work on places of nature, virgin and immaculate for millennia. He currently lives and works between Sweden and Italy in Bioglio in the Biellese area.
"Flashes of understanding, a putting together of disparate things. Then back to objects and their unwillingness to give them selves up to prediction. It’s the trees that are looking at us. They are growing slower than us. We should look at things that grow quicker than we do so as to get an idea of our possible outcome. In an ensemble of Maurizio Corona’s work we are the subject". Sean Shanahan
Mostre Personali
1974 Galleria Comunale di Bildhörnan, Umeå Svezia
1977 Kulturhuset, Stoccolma
1978 Galleria Forma, Genova
1978 Il Diagramma, Milano
1980 Galleria Paludetto, Torino
1980 Galleria Wallner, Malmö
1981 Studio Grossetti, Milano
1981 Galleria De Ambrogi, Milano
1981 Forum, Stoccolma
1982 Galleria Paludetto, Torino
1982 Studio Grossetti, Milano
1983 Galleria L’Attico, Roma
1983 Galleria Minini, Brescia
1983 Galleria Pakesc, Vienna
1983 “La Scuola di Atene” Palazzo di Città, Acireale
1984 Galleria De Ambrogi, Milano
1985 Capodopera, Fiesole
1986 Studio Grossetti, Milano
1987 Galleria Minini, Brescia
1987 Associazione Culturale L’Uomo e l’Arte, Biella
1988 Galleria L’Attico, Roma
1991 Galerie Glacis, Graz
1991 Galleri Tornvall, Stoccolma
1992 Galleria Dialoghi, Biella
1993 Galleria Toselli, Milano
1993 Scuola di R. Steiner, Milano
1994 Majoren, Sollefteå
1994 Konstmässan Galleri Tornvall, Stoccolma
1994 Galleri G, Helsingborg
1994 Galleria Chisel, Genova
1996 Galleria Alter, Torino
2000 Margareta Olofson, Utås Svezia
2001 Nordingrå
2001 Cà di Frà, Milano
2004 Villa Pomini, Castellanza
2004 Kunst Historische Istitut Bonn, Germania
2006 örnsköldsvik Museum, Svezia
2007 Galleria Victor Saavedra, Barcellona Spagna
2007 örnsköldsvik Museum, Konsthall Svezia
2008 Galleria Versalen, Sundsvall Svezia
2008 Riflessi, Villa Cernigliaro, Biella
2008 Villa Schneider, Biella
2009 Galeri Lindberg, Luleå, Svezia
2009 Tidsrymd / Uno spazio di tempo, Sundsvalls Museum, Sundsvalls, Svezia
2014 Maurizio Corona, Santuario di Banchette, Biella
2015 Maurizo Corona at Paul Goodwin’s Studio, Torino
2017 Varje Enhet Blier en Helhet, Lilla Galeriet, Umeå, Svezia
2018 I Begynnelsen, Brynge Konsthall, Svezia
Principali Mostre Collettive
1981 Gallerie Med-a-Mothi, Montpellier Francia
1984 Extemporanea - Associazione Culturale L’Attico, Roma
1985 Anni Ottanta - Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
1986 Itinerari del Versante Sud - Frac, Toulose Francia
1986 Museo Civico di Treviglio, Treviglio
1987 Dopo il Concettuale - Museo Provinciale d’Arte, Trento
1987 XXX Festival dei Due Mondi, Spoleto
1987 Galerie Nouvelles Images, Den Haag
1987 Galleria Civica di Gallarate, Gallarate
1988 Palazzo Pubblico Città di Siena, Siena
1988 Villa Croce, Genova
1993 Wanda Reiff, Amsterdam, Maast
1995 Galleria Toselli, Milano
1995 100 Pittori a Milano - La Permanente, Milano
1996 Lodi all’Arte - Museo di Lodi, Lodi
1996 Martiri e Santi - Associazione Culturale L’Attico, Roma
1996 Mostra d’Adda - Castello di Corneliano, Milano
1996 Box Kraftverk, Bjärtrå
1996 Galleria Sio, Barcelona
1997 Kulturhuset, Örnsköldsvik
1998 Artisti Italiani - Box Kraftverk, Bjärtrå
1999 Galleria d’Arte Il Punto A, Cassano d’Adda
2000 Majoren, Sollefteå
2000 Galleria Comunale, Boden Svezia
2002 Notte Santa - Castello di Coneliano, Milano
2002 Naturarte, Lodi
2003 Galleria Ponte Rosso, Milano
2004 L’Emozione del Paesaggio - Palazzo Cicogna, Busto Arsizio
2004 Carta Canta, Annunciata Grossetti Arte contemporanea, Milano
2004 Paper Works, Barbara Behan Contemporary Art, London
2006 Galleria Victor Saavedra, Barcellona Spagna
2008 Galleria Mariann Ahnlund, Umeå Svezia
2008 Lilla Galleriet, Umeå Svezia
2008 Di-Segno Mentale, Grossetti Artecontemporanea, Milano
2010 À la Carte, L’Attico, Roma
2015 Selvatica, Spazio Cultura Fondazione CRB, Biella
2015 C’è chi dipinge, L’Attico, Roma
2016 Ecomuseo della Terracotta, Ronco Biellese, Biella
2017 Arte in Prefettura, Biella
2018 Scorribanda, Galleria Nazionale, Roma