LUCA VITONE
Pitture Plastiche
On January 10, CONTEMPORALIS inaugurated its 2025 program with a special meeting with Luca Vitone, presenting a selection of works in dialogue with his exhibition Pitture Plastiche at Galerie Michel Rein. This presentation continues the dialogue with Pitture Plastiche, Luca Vitone’s major solo exhibition at Galerie Michel Rein in Paris, on view from January 11 to March 22, 2025. Through a selection of works specifically chosen by the artist, the public is invited to discover a new perspective on his work and research.
Luca Vitone’s artistic investigation explores how places are defined through cultural production: art, cartography, music, cuisine, political associations, and ethnic minorities. His work bridges the gap between the sense of loss of place characteristic of postmodernity and the dynamics through which feelings of belonging emerge, intertwining personal and collective memory. By reconstructing and reinventing forgotten routes, Vitone thus reconfigures his own personal geography.
Luca Vitone (Italy, 1964) is an Italian artist represented by Galerie Michel Rein. Vitone participated in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Since 2006 he has been teaching at the Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan. His work has been exhibited at MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts (Rome), Fondazione Zimei (Montesilvano), Palazzo Ducale (Genoa), PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea (Milan), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna (Rome), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Bétonsalon (Paris), Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin), Nomas Foundation (Rome), MoMA P.S.1 (New York), Musée & Jardins Van Buuren (Uccle), and OK Centrum (Linz).
His work is included in the collections of MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Arts (Rome), Dena Foundation (Paris), Deutsche Bank (Milan), EVN Sammlung (Vienna), Nomas Foundation (Rome), n.b.k. (Berlin), Gamec (Bergamo), Lenbachhaus (Munich), Museo del Novecento (Milan), Museo Ettore Fico (Turin), and Museo Riso (Palermo).