FEDERICO ARANI​
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b.1995. Rome, Italy
Currently living and working in London, UK
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Federico Arani’s multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, painting, and site-specific interventions, as well as curating exhibitions and community-based projects.
Influenced by the study of proto-sciences, the history of craftsmanship, evolutionary biology, and sci-fi literature, Federico shapes an ecosystem of hybrid tools and transmuted presences footprints of a decayed, post-societal elsewhere that gaze upon us from above, cautiously revealing itself, but never fully graspable.
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Salvaged materials, archaeological finds, and parts of old equipment and machinery meld with archaic human practices such as ceramic and metalworking in a continuous hybridization and mutual corruption, blurring the line between what is found and what is made.
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Thus, uncanny settings and unstable images come to life: impossible and abandoned desires for connection, protection, preservation, and discovery — as if he wanted to unearth lost knowledge, an adrift form of primaeval language, in an attempt to process and understand personal traumas and generational fears and anxieties.
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Federico is also co-founder of the studio and artist-run space Porto Simpatica in Rome and founder and head curator of Scoppio Project in Umbria, Italy.
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EDUCATION:
2020-23 MFA Sculpture at Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
2014-18 BA Painting and Visual Arts at NABA, Milan, IT
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
⤳2024 (forthcoming) Transition Landscape, curated by Davide Allieri / Bolle, Bergamo, IT
⤳2024 (forthcoming) Electrify Limbo, curated by Eleni Kalara, PPC Power Plant Agios Georgios, Athens, Greece
⤳2024 Great Expectation, curated by Giulia Gaibisso / Spazio Mensa, Rome, IT
⤳2024 Annual Sadness, curated by Claudia Rose / The Organ Factory, London, UK
⤳2023 Soldi e Paura, curated by Micol Teora and Sebastiano Bottaro / Spazio Mensa, Rome, IT
⤳2023 (Duo-Show) stye in your eye / The Split Gallery London, UK
⤳2023 The Perf. End / Via Privata Passo Pordoi, Milan, IT
⤳2023 Graduate Degree Show / Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
⤳2023 Burning Desire | Danuser & Ramirez Gallery, London, UK
⤳2023 Eviction Notice!, curated by Akshay Bhoan / Pocket Trap Contemporary, London, UK
⤳2022 Slade Interim Show / Slade School of Fine Art, London, UK
⤳2022 Scoppio Terzo, curated by Federico Arani w/ Arianna Tremolanti / Scoppio Acquasparta (TR), IT
⤳2022 Mal d’Uve, curated by Scania and Bea Roggero Fossati / Nizza Monferrato, IT
⤳2021 Scoppio Secondo, curated by Federico Arani / Scoppio Acquasparta (TR), IT
⤳2021 Guest Artists Section - ReA! Art Fair, curated by Artoday Projects / Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
⤳2021 DucatoPrize 2021 / Volumnia, Piacenza, IT
⤳2020 Scoppio / Scoppio Acquasparta (TR) IT
⤳2019 (Solo Show) De Architectura, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Galleria Moitre, Turin, IT
⤳2018 Premio Città di Treviglio, curated by Sara Fontana / Spazio Sala Crociera, Treviglio (BG), IT
⤳2018 Itaca non è Nulla, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Spazio Angur, Milan, IT
⤳2017 FOUR, curated by Emanuele Tira and Mariachiara Baccanelli / Fondazione A. Pini, Milan, IT
⤳2017 My body can’t hold your gaze, curated by Adrian Paci and Bianca Baroni / Fondazione A. Pini, Milan, IT
⤳2017 Itaca 2, Studi festival #3, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Studio G. Feltrinelli + Cararmati Studio, Milan, IT
⤳2017 The Great Learning, curated by Marco Scotini / Triennale di Milano, Milan IT
⤳2016 Itaca, curated by Andrea M. Bassan / Studio G. Feltrinelli, Milan, IT
⤳2016 Era Pacifica Pare, curated by Careof and Marco Belfiore / Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan, IT
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GRANTS ANS AWARDS:
⤳Gilbert Bayes Trust Grant, UK, 2023
⤳Ducato Prize, IT, 2021 / Finalist
⤳Premio Città di Treviglio, IT, 2018 / Finalist
⤳17° Ricas Prize, IT, 2016 / Finalist
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RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS:
⤳Lab For New Imaginations, workshop, MACRO, Rome, IT, 2023
⤳UVA Artist-in-residence - Tenants, curated by Scania e Bea Roggero Fossati, IT, 2022
⤳Era Pacifica Pare, workshop curated by Careof, Milan, IT 2016