Mauro Pipani
Mauro Pipani (born 5 January 1953 in Cesenatico, Italy) is an Italian artist.
His artistic mediums are painting and installations. Mauro Pipani does not use only color and writing in his works, but he also employs man-made materials such as aluminum and acetate and natural elements like tree-trunks, brought ashore and found by the artist. With these elements he creates installations which are metaphors of the human condition.
He graduated at the Academy of Visual Arts in Bologna in 1976 and after got his master in Sustainable Architecture Interior Design.
In 1972 he joined a group of young artists from Cesenatico in a sort of community called "la Comune" directed by the Nobel Prize Dario Fo and his wife and actress Franca Rame.[1]
This community, which was joined by artists with different artistic mediums and expressions, had the intent of producing art which was socially active and dealing with social issues.[2]
In 1973 he participated in the Lubiam Award Festival exhibiting in the Palazzo del Te in Mantua (Italy).
At the end of 1998 Pipani opened his solo show called "Acque di superficie" (Surface waters) curated by the art critic Marco Meneguzzo in the foyer of the theater in Cervia (Italy).[3]
In 2001 he participated in the exhibition "Figures of the '900, II° over the Academy" curated by the philosopher Adriano Baccilieri, the art critic Roberto Daolio and the artist Concept Pozzati in the Halls of the Pinacoteca Nazionale in Bologna (Italy).[4]
In 2015 he exhibited "Arborea" a one-man show at Villa Torlonia in San Mauro Pascoli (Italy) and, at the same time, at the Oratory of St. Rocco in Gatteo (Italy) curated by the art historian Annamaria Bernucci and presented by the art critic Renato Barilli.[5] He exhibited his installation "Cantico" at the Malatestiana Library in Cesena during the exhibition "Nowhere landscape" curated by Sabrina Ghinassi in December 2015.[6]
In February 2016 he presented the project “Approdi” curated by the art critic Raffaele Quattrone to NiArt gallery in Ravenna.[7]
He was invited to the second edition of "Biennale del Disegno" at the Museo della Città in Rimini with the installation "Anthropocene".[8]
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