FEDERICO ARANI
b.Rome, Italy
Currently living and working in London, UK
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Characterised by fluid boundaries, Federico Arani’s multidisciplinary practice includes sculpture, painting and site-specific interventions, as well as curating exhibitions and community-based projects.
A research built from the insatiable desire to understand itself. A continuous attempt to bring to light, define, and give meaning to an ecosystem of fragments and testimonies from an alternate reality, a temporal elsewhere that gazes upon us from above, cautiously revealing itself, allowing hints but never fully graspable.
Exploring the intersections between sci-fi literature, evolutionary biology and social phenomena such as pseudosciences and survivalism, his work revolves around the cognitive limits in the encounter between the human, the non-human and its beyond, investigating the resulting dynamics of power and spirituality.
Salvaged materials, archaeological finds, organic fragments, and components of disused ancient tools, are hybridised and interweaved with sculptural elements crafted from ceramic, metal, and bio-materials, blurring the lines between what is found and what is made.
Thus, unstable entities and settings come to life: impossible spiritual and psychological devices, abandoned desires for connection, protection, preservation and discovery. As if he wanted to unearth a lost knowledge, an adrift form of primeval language, in the attempt to process and understand personal traumas and generational fears and anxieties.
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:
⤳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
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
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