Project Description
Pierluca Cetera
“Painting, for me, is the epiphany of what is hidden and invisible. For this reason, I am inclined to eviscerate and reproduce with brushstrokes, scratches, cuts and various abrasions, the inner travail of the characters depicted. Mine is a kind of complicated psychological ejaculation on canvas, on board or on any other surface that claims my pictorial intervention.”
Education
Master Degree in Painting, Visual Arts, Academy of Fine Arts of Bari, Italy
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sirene
curated by Massimo Pamio, Museo Barbella of Chieti, Italy
2023
Refugium Peccatorum
installation of Integrated Art with Maurizio Di Feo, curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Air raid shelters of Monopoli (Bari), Italy
2022
La Cruna dell’Ago
installation of Integrated Art with Maurizio Di Feo, curated by Valentina Iacovelli, Church of S. Giuseppe, Conversano (Bari), Italy
2021
Gli Ospiti
curated by Contempo Festival, VideoMap on Castle of Conversano (Bari), Italy
2020
Per Esempio
curated by Pierluca Cetera, Palazzo Romano of Gioia del Colle (Bari), Italy
2019
Dopamina
curated by Francesco Sticchi, FANS of Maglie (Lecce), Italy
2019
L’Ozio
curated by Francesco Paolo Del Re, Museo Nuova Era, Bari, Italy
2019
L’AntiPasto
curated by Nicoletta De Santoli, RA contemporaryArt, Terlizzi (Bari), Italy
2018
Ti riguarda
curated by Monica Demattè, MoArtSpace, Xinmi (Henan), China
2018
LUCIFERI
curated by Piero Chiariello, Spazio Corrosivo, Marcianise (Caserta), Italy
2018
I VERBI BREVI
(duo exhibition) curated by Nicola Zito, Kunstschau, Lecce, Italy
2018
Ti riguarda
curated by Monica Demattè, Meicheng Gallery, Shenzhen (Guangdong), China
2017
Gli Ospiti
curated by Francesco Paolo del Re and Sabino de Nichilo, Casa Vuota, Rome, Italy
2017
I Perseveranti
curated by Francesco Siracusa, Spazio Espositivo, Agrigento, Italy
2016
Pioggerella e Fuochino
curated by Monica Demattè, MoArtSpace, Xinmi (Henan), China
2016
FILM- macchina della vista e dell’udito
curated by Vincenzo Schino and by “Opera” group, Volume Foundation, Rome, Italy
2016
I Chiaroveggenti
curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Fedele Art Studio, Monopoli (Bari), Italy
2015
Indigesta
curated by Davide Quadrio, Sponge Living Space (casa Sponge), Pergola (Pesaro and Urbino), Italy
2015
Tarli
curated by Alexander Larrarte, CoArt gallery of Corato (Bari), Italy
2014
Il Bosco
curated by Vincenzo Schino, CAOS of Terni, Italy
2013
Scritturati
FormaQuattro gallery, Bari, Italy
2012
La (mala) creanza
curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, FormaQuattro gallery, Bari, Italy
2011
emiCRANIA (con aura)
curated by Antonella Marino, studio d’arte Fedele, Monopoli (Bari), Italy
2011
Le Cavie
within the festival Senso plurimo curated by Marinilde Giannandrea at the Cantieri Teatrali Koreja of Lecce, Italy
2008
Euclidea
curated by A.Trabucco and M.C. Valacchi, at the Arte Boccanera Contemporanea gallery of Trento, Italy
2006
Le Ore
at the Paolo Erbetta gallery, critical text by Alberto Zanchetta, Foggia, Italy
2004
La conquista della posizione eretta
Vorraum space, galerie Urs Meile, curated by Nataline Colonnello, Lucerne, Switzerland
2003
REPLAY
at the “Biz-art” gallery, curated by Monica Demattè; texts by Maurizio Giuffredi and Monica Demattè, Shanghai, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Desiderio Sessuale
curated by Francesco Sticchi, FANS of Maglie (Lecce), Italy
2023
Effetto Venere: Alterità dello sguardo riflesso
curated by Dores Sacquegna, Fondazione Palmieri, Lecce, Italy
2022
OPEReOMISSIONI
installation of Integrated Art with Maurizio Di Feo, curated by PROSSIMAMENTE ARTE, Church of S. Agostino of Massafra (Taranto), Italy
2022
Un bacio ancora
curated by Enrica Feltracco, Massimiliano Sabbion and Yourbanflat, Museo Civico of Asolo (Treviso), Italy
2022
TreSette
curated by Prossimamente and Antonio Milano, Palazzo Romano of Gioia del Colle (Bari), Italy
2021
Le Origini
curated by Graziella Geraci, Trullo 227- Martina Franca (Taranto), Italy
2021
Canone Doppio
curated by Francesco Piazza and Vassilis Karampatsas, The Project Gallery, Athina/ Palermo, Greece/ Italy
2021
We the people
curated by Elisabetta Bacchin, Enrica Feltracco, Elisabetta Maria Vanzelli, Massimiliano Sabbion and Matteo Vanzan, Sala della Gran Guardia, Padua, Italy
2021
Prossimamente
curated by P. Cetera, M. Di Feo, J. Pignatelli – exhibition at the cinemas of Bari, Lecce, Barletta (BAT), Mola (Bari), Santeramo (Bari), Monopoli (Bari), Lucera (Foggia), Italy
2020
ZOO Generation
curated by Christian Caliandro, AncheCinema (Bari), Italy
2020
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Centometriquadri Arte Contemporanea, Santa Maria Capua Vetere (Caserta), Italy
2019
Entasi
curated by cultural association Arco di Gallieno, Acquario Romano a piazza Manfredo Fanti, Rome, Italy
2019
Requiem
curated by Eliana Urbano Raimondi and Ivan Cenzi, Mirabilia Art Gallery of Giano Del Bufalo, Rome, Italy
2019
At Full Blast
curated by Massimo Nardi, Pinacoteca Comunale di Palazzo Miani-Perotti, Cassano delle Murge (Bari), Italy
2019
Dissolvenze
curated by Enrica Feltracco, Massimiliano Sabbion and Matteo Vanzan, Gallerie di Palazzo vescovile, Diocesan Museum of Padua, Italy
2019
Dopo l’umano
curated by Eliana Urbano Raimondi, Palermo, Italy
2018
Too Much
curated by Massimo Nardi, Palazzo Marchesale, Santeramo in Colle (Bari), Italy
2017
Sponge 10
curated by Serena Ribaudo, Sponge Living Space (casa Sponge), Pergola (Pesaro and Urbino), Italy
2017
At full blast
curated by Massimo Nardi, Laterza (Taranto), Matera, Marina di Ginosa (Taranto), Italy
2017
Olio d’Artista
curated by Francesco Sannicandro, Olio Officina Festival, Milan, Italy
2016
Rifugio del presente
curated by Sponge Arte Contemporanea, Bastione Sangallo di Fano (Pesaro and Urbino), Italy
2016
Infra-rosso
curated by Gaia Pasi, Atelier Elfo Puccini of Milan, Italy
2015
Biennale di Penne
, curated by Antonio Zimarino and Martina Lolli, Curch of S. Giovanni Evangelista, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MaMec), Penne (Pescara), Italy
2015
#nuovicodici#
curated by Davide Quadrio Palazzo Stanga-Trecco, Cremona, Italy
2014
Italia Moderna
Edinburgh Consulate, curated by the Italian Cultural Institute of Edinburgh, Scotland
2014
Apulian Aliens
Alpha Art Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2014
Lavori in corso
curated by Toti Carpentieri, Must – Museo Storico, Lecce, Italy
2012
Open Space 2 incursioni figurative
curated by Carmelo Cipriani, Palazzo Arnone, National gallery of Cosenza, Italy
2012
Ouverture- la Festa dell’Arte
curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Antonio Frugis, Nicola Zito, Pino Pascali Museum, Polignano (Bari), Italy
2012
Espiare
curated by Roberto Lacarbonara and Alexander Larrarte, former Monaster of Dominicans, Ruvo di Puglia (Bari), Italy
2011
54°Biennale di Venezia- Apulian section
curated by Vittorio Sgarbi, Santa Scolastica Bari, Italy
2011
Affinità elettive
curated by Luigi Meneghelli , at the ArteBoccanera Contemporanea gallery, Trento, Italy
2009
SINGOLARI
curated by Monica Demattè, former Monastery of St. Clare, Castellaneta (Taranto), Italy
2008
Allarmi 4
curated by Alessandro Trabucco, caserma De Cristoforis of Como, Italy
2007
Arte Italiana 1968-2007 Pittura
Royal Palace of Milan, an exhibition designed by Vittorio Sgarbi and curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Milan, Italy
2005
Memoria Contemporanea
Spazio Liberty, centrale Taccani, curated by Maria Chiara Valacchi, Trezzo sull’Adda (Milan), Italy
2004
Gemini Muse
Pinacoteca Provinciale di Bari, curated by Antonella Marino, Bari, Italy
2004
GAP
installation from the series “PARTI” at the Diocesan Museum of Bari, curated by A. Marino, L. De Venere and M. Di Tursi, Bari, Italy
2001
Art&Maggio
Sala Murat, critical text by Antonella Marino, Bari, Italy
2000
Z/000
curated by P. Cetera, N. Curri, N.Vinci, with critical text by G. Corazziari, former Monastery of St. Clare, Castellaneta (Taranto), Italy
1998
Unheimlich
curated by P. Cetera, N. Curri, N.Vinci, with critical text by M. Giuffredi, former Monastery of St. Clare, Castellaneta (Taranto), Italy
PUBLICATIONS
2023
Refugium Peccatorum
curated by Roberto Lacarbonara, Sfera Editore, Bari, Italy
2023
Sirene
curated by Massimo Pamio and Pierluca Cetera, Edizioni Mondo Nuovo, Pescara, Italy
2021
Cetera Pamio
curated by Massimo Pamio, Edizioni Mondo Nuovo, Pescara, Italy
2020
Ovulazione
curated by Pierluca Cetera and Paolo Castronuovo, Occhionudo Editore, Italy
2016
Studio
curated by Francesco Dongiovanni and Pierluca Cetera, Open Reel Editore, Italy
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