Paolo Consorti
Paolo Consorti (born 9 August 1964 in San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy) is an Italian artist and film director. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Macerata, where he did some cinema work with Sergei Bondarchuk. He had his first solo show in 1991 at the Palazzo Ducale in Urbino.
In the years that followed, his work drew international attention. In 1992 philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer compared him to Hieronymus Bosch for the contrast between pictorial and dramatic balance in modern and post-modern art. In 1994 art critic Pierre Restany called his style the “emergence of a sublime post-modern style.” He participated in the XII Quadrennial National Art exhibit in Rome (1996) and in the First Prague Biennial (2003). The XIV Quadrennial National Art exhibit in Turin (2004) included him, and he was listed in the Zanichelli Art encyclopedia.
In 2006 he took part in Garten Eden in Emden, Germany, and was chosen to represent Italy in nature and metamorphosis exhibitions in Shanghai and Beijing. In 2008 he exhibited at the World Olympic Fine Arts Museum in Beijing and was invited to the Moscow Biennial for Young Art. He was also selected for the Farnesiana Young Collection and appeared in Flash Art’s Top 100 young Italian artists.
In 2009 he created a large nativity fresco projected onto a public square in Assisi. In 2010 he made music videos for the Italian edition of X Factor. In 2011 he took part in the 54th Venice Biennale with his Rebellio Patroni project, featuring performances by Italian city patron saints, including Elio as Saint Francis of Assisi. He later staged a performance at the Madre Museum in Naples with Giobbe Covatta as Saint Januarius. He has held solo shows in cities such as Melbourne, Berlin, Amsterdam, Minneapolis, Hamburg, New York, Venice and Tokyo. In June 2012 he planned a major solo show at the Palazzo Reale in Milan, combining paintings, installations, video and performance.
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