- La Chigi -
La Chigi is an Italian visual artist based in Trento, Italy. She utilises unconventional materials and found objects to explore themes of home, as a physical space and a place of the soul, and of the relationships between its inhabitants.
In the resulting three-dimensional installations, La Chigi distills complex feelings into small, ironic, and apparently lighthearted skits.
Artist Statement
I use materials borrowed from reality, playfully reversing their traditional use. What is usually thrown away is for me an opportunity for art and an ecological and polemical choice towards society, in search of new authenticity and a new way of narrating the present and meeting others.
I am currently exploring the language and theme of the house, a physical place and space of the soul with ready-made installations and objects, and the relationships with and between its inhabitants.
Food containers or boxes have become dwellings and scenarios for miniature people who are thus able to recount, with out-of-scale objects and through symbols and metaphors, the dreams, desires, expectations - and problems - of the whole of humanity.
Biography
Education
2003 Degree in Modern Literature with a focus on art history, Trento (TN) with the thesis Giuseppe Bernardi: the profession of the artist between Torretto and Canova, winner of the "Gianmarco
Migliorini" Prize (2004) for degree thesis
1998 classical maturity, Bassano del Grappa (VI)
Art Training
2020 Italy, Trento, Palazzo delle Poste, project "Atlas Curae"; artistic workshops with Michele Parisi, Federico Lanaro, Luciano Civettini, Angelo Demitri Morandini
2019 Italy, Trento, Forte di Civezzano, project "ArteForte. Sentinels of stone 2019", Workshop of linocut, curated by Margherita Paoletti
2017 Italy, Rovereto, MART Museo, Workshop “Lamina Lumina”. curated by Francesco Bocchini
2014 England, London, Serpentine Gallery, project “512” con Marina Abramovic
2012 Italy, Rovereto, MART Museo, “64. Malaktion” with Hermann Nitsch
2000 Italy, Rovereto, MART Museo, course "Psycho-pedagogy of language and communication” and Workshop on line and point
Other Experience
2005-2004 Italy, Trento, Galleria Civica, artistic-scientific project of "Superflex", curated by Pier Luigi Tazzi, co-curator
Awards
2022 Italy, Milano, CIRCUITI CONDIVISI – nuovi punti di vista DINAMICI (winner)
2022 Italy, Agropoli (SA), ArtKeys prize 04 (finalist)
2022 Italy, Casalmaggiore (CR), Ridefinire il gioiello (finalist and special mention)
2021 Italy, Trieste (TS), Festival Desidera (finalist)
2020 Italy, Agropoli (SA), ArtKeys prize 2020 (finalist)
2004 Italy, Asolo (TV), Premio “Gianmarco Migliorini” award for degree thesis
2004 Italy, Roma (RM), Third national competition of short stories of Malatempora Edizioni (winner)
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Italy, Milano (MI), Circuiti dinamici, Trame. Quando il periferico acquista senso with Luca Medici, curated by Sonia Patrizia Catena and Lorenzo Argenti
2022 Italy, Trento (TN),Torre Mirana, ri(c)AMARE IL MONDO, curated by Dora Bulart
2022 Italy, Trento (TN), Distanziamento
2021 Italy, Ponte in Valtellina (SO), Ex Farmacia Garlaschelli, Progetto Janas
2021 Italy, Cagliari (CA), Questa stanza non ha più pareti, curated byGalleria Siotto (Elena Calaresu e Fabiano Alciator)
2021 Italy, Rovereto (TN), Libreria Piccolo Blu, Alice and the ordinary extraordinary, curated by Elisa Pezza
2021 Italy, Rovereto (TN), Casa della pittura fonetica, Il legno e il cuore, curated by Alberto Sighele, with Claudio Cavalieri, Gentile Polo and Guadalupe Zepeda
2021 Italy, Pergine (TN), Galleria Contempo, Humanitas, curated by Ilaria Piazza with Cristiano Brunelli, Michela Eccli and Ilaria Piazza
2020 Italy, Trento (TN), Palazzo della Regione Trentino-Alto Adige, Altrove
2020 Italy, Pergine (TN), Galleria Contempo, (di)stanze, curated by Dora Bulart
2002 Italy, Bassano del Grappa (VI), Libreria Demetra, Mostra di disegno, immagine & parola with Valeria Conte and Nicola Dalla Pria
Group Exhibitions, Competitions & Curatorial Projects
2023 Italy, Ghilarza (OR), Casa Natale Antonio Gramsci, Indifference, curated by Margaret Sgarra
2022 Italy, Capaccio Paestum (SA), Ex Tabacchificio, Artkeys prize 04
2022 Italy, Verbania (VB), Villa Simonetta, Il corpo altrui. in “Incontriamoci in Villa Simonetta. La collettiva delle collettive”, curated by Associazione Siviera and Laura Monticelli
2022 Italy, Milano, Spazio Mantegna, Quando un libro è espressione d'arte
2022 Italy, Leffe (BG), BACS, Mediterraneo. La società del rischio, curated by Patrizia Bonardi
2022 Italy, Ales (OR), Casa Natale Antonio Gramsci, What does indifference mean?, curated by Margaret Sgarra
2022 Italy, Trento (TN), Forte Cadine, Paesaggi Forti, curated Matteo Kettmaier and Camilla Nacci
2022 Italy, Verbania (VB), Villa Giulia, Le stanze delle meraviglie
Wunderkammer 5, curated by Marisa Cortese
2022 Italy, Torino (TO), Ossimoro Art Gallery, Back to the future,
curated by Margaret Sgarra
2022 Italy, Milano (MI), Circuiti Dinamici, Gli occhi degli altri,
curated by Lorenzo Argentino and Sonia Patrizia Catena
2022 Italy, Milano (MI), Circuiti Dinamici, Identità mutanti,
curated by Lorenzo Argentino and Sonia Patrizia Catena
2022 Italy, Empoli (FI), Associazione Sincresis, 100x100 libri d'artista, curated by Sincresis Arte
2022 Italy, Bologna (BO), Ospedale Bellaria, Trova il dipinto,
curated by Harry Baldisserra
2022 Italy, Milano (MI), Circuiti Dinamici, Legami, curated by Antonia Guglielmo
2022 Italy, Milano (MI), Circuiti Dinamici, Dettagli, nuovi spazi espressivi, curated by Lorenzo Argentino and Sonia Patrizia Catena
2022 Italy, Venezia (VE), Galleria VisioniAltre. La vasca del Fuhrer, curated by Adolfina de Stefani, Moreno Hebling and Alessandra Agostinelli
2021 Italy, Milano (MI), Circuiti Dinamici, Libro d'artista, curated by
Lorenzo Argentino and Sonia Patrizia Catena
2021 Italy, Artoteca Alto Adige – Artothek Suedtirol 2021
2021 Italy, Torino (TO), Casa dell'ambiente, Think green, curated by Margaret Sgarra
2021 Italy, Ponte in Valtellina (SO), Un ponte di storie, Janas: il mondo in una scatoletta
2021 Italy, Cagliari (CA), Lazzaretto, Karel Music Expo-Galleria Siotto, Questa stanza non ha più pareti
2021 Italy, Trieste (TS), TivanellaArt, Camera Caelum, Festival Desidera curated by Samantha Benedetti
2021 Italy, Venice (VE), Nuvole. 100 artisti per ricordare, curated by Adolfina Stefani and Aurora Cappello
2021 Italy, Rovereto (TN), Foundation "Opera Campana dei caduti", International exhibition "Human rights? @Work", curated by Roberto Ronca
2021 Italy, Rome, Galleria Afnakafna, Pride by your side 2021, curated by FMB Art Gallery
2021 Italy, Venice (VE), Visioni Altre, Aliment-Arte, curated by Adolfina de Stefani and Beatrice Vassanelli
2021 England, London, The Holy art, Atopos
2021 Italy, Pergine (TN), Galleria Contempo, Xmess, curated by Dora Bulart
2020 Italy, Rovereto (TN), Foundation “Opera Campana dei caduti”, mostra internazionale “Human rights? The future's Shape #WomenCanSaveTheWorld”, curated by Roberto Ronca
2020 England, London, No name collective gallery, Covid19 (Special Issue), curated by Vanessa Rusci
2020 Italy, Trento (TN), Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Quarantine Museum, curated byLorenza Liandru
2020 Italy, Ponte in Valtellina (SO), Vecchia Farmacia Garlaschelli, Gli oggetti (ci) raccontano, curated by Oriana Picceni and Marco De Scalzi
2020 Italy, Milan (MI), Zara Library, Quaranzine, curated by Valeria Foschetti, Cultural Association “La Pipette Noir”
2006 Italy, Foligno (PG), SegnalEtico. International competition of temporary urban art, curated by ViaIndustriae
2005 Italy, Asolo (TV), Foundation “La Fornace dell'Innovazione”, Zogo. The second free design competition, curated by Balilla Bepop
2003 Italy, San Giacomo di Romano (VI), 7 Edition “Incontri d'arte”, curated by Giulio Caradente
2002 Italy, Trento (TN), University of Trento, piazza Duomo, Festa dell'arte universitaria
2002 Italy, Trento (TN), University of Trento, Faculty of Economics,
InOpera. Students in exhibition
2001 Italy, Trento (TN), University of Trento, Fondazione Opera Universitaria, InOpera. Students in exhibition
Festivals
2022 Italy, Trento (TN), Distanziamento Il fiume che non c'è. Metamorfosi
2021 Italy, Ponte in Valtellina (SO), Un Ponte di storie
2021 Italy, Cagliari (CA), Karel Music Festival
Public Collections
2020 Italy, Trento, collection of Regione Trentino Alto-Adige, Andare Via, ready-made/installation
2020 Italy, Trento, Tridentine Diocesan Museum, Déjà-vu, ready- made/installation
2020 Italy, Borgo Valsugana (TN), Museo Casa Andriollo, A.A.A. Ad Alice Andriollo, readymade/installation
Her works are part of private collections in Italy and abroad. She lives and works in Trento.