Giancarlo Flati

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Giancarlo Flati, born May 11, 1953, in L’Aquila, Italy, is an Italian painter, researcher and writer. He began making art in 1964 and since 1972 has carried out artistic and biomedical research across Europe and the United States. He has taught scientific methodology at the University of Rome and written about microsurgery and related surgeries. Today he works as a painter and author in L’Aquila, Rome and New Jersey, with exhibitions in many countries and works held in collections around the world.

After the 2009 earthquake that struck his hometown, Flati founded the Cultural Association Cantiere Aquilano di Cultura Creativa ai Margini della Coscienza, a think tank focused on creative consciousness and ideas about holography. In 2017 he participated in the Rome Triennial of Visual Arts and joined El Circulo Magico at the Guatemala Pavilion for the Venice Biennale. He published the book On the Edge of Creative Mind to accompany his works The Tree of the Edges and From the Silence of Leaves. In 2020 he launched a new artistic movement with the manifesto The Tree of the Mabits, published by Aracne Editrice.

Flati has shown his art at major venues and in 2021 again featured in Rome’s art scene, with works exhibited and recognized in museum circles. In 2022 he returned to the Venice Biennale with Imaginary Hypermask of Mabits 2. Critics describe his work as a bold blend of art and science that creates a new, multi-voiced language, merging natural imagery with machines and sound to explore the complexities of the world. He won the Michetti-Museum Prize in 2005 and the 2016 Art & Beyond cover prize. He has written several books and his art appears in numerous publications and catalogs.