DINO
DE SIMONE
Was born in Lecce (1949); while he was studying
architecture in Naple and Venice he decided to devote himself to painting. He
attended Aldo Rossi’s lessons in Venice and started an intensive production
with the objective to investigate the continuous metamorphosis of the city. His
paintings are created by the juxtaposition of objects related to contemporary
architecture. Specifically, De Simone focuses on the seventies, striving for a
synthesis of the most significant avant-garde languages, in particular
surrealism and symbolic abstraction.
What interests De Simone is the relationship between
artificial and natural, the multi-ethnical reality of modern European cities.
His ideas arise during his walks and are soon fixed in water colours on a small
drawing book, before being elaborated and transformed into oil paintings.
Mostly referring to David Hockney
(cubism-surrealism-mittel - european abstraction) he actually sums up the
Italian Painting of the XX century as a whole and updates it in the light of
some more recent painters. He defines himself “a painter who studied as an
architect” and actually in his paintings there is the continuous search for a
formal logic
.
Selected exhibitions:
2001 Milano, studio
Michelangelo, Caffettiera+città
2002 Università di
Urbino, Palazzo Petrangolini, La città ideale
2002 Milano,
Fondazione Biblioteca di via Senato, La città di frontiera
2003 Milano, Libreria
Einaudi
2006 Milano, Galleria
Bellinzona, Immagini di città
2014 Arte Passante,
Milano
Mostre di architettura
e design
1989 Milano,
Triennale, 99 progetti per Milano
1996 Ginevra, Museo di
Storia ed Arte
1995 Pesaro
Grandesign, La rue radieuse
1996 Todi, Palazzo
delle arti, Fatto ad arte
1997 Milano, Triennale
2004 Forum di Omegna
(VB), Centro Studi Alessi
Principali mostre
collettive di pittura
1994 Milano, MIART
“Arte oggi Europa”
1994 Roma, Palazzo
delle Esposizioni, Arteroma itinerans
11996 Torino,
Lingotto-Artissima, Fiera Internazionale
D’arte Moderna e
Contemporanea
1996 Daverio (Varese),
Galleria Silbernagl
1997 Milano, MIART
1998 Casalzuigno
(Varese), Villa Bozzolo
2007 Bruxelles,
Palazzo della Commissione dell’Unione Europea, in esposizione permanente
Contemporaneo italiano
2015 Amsterdam,
Galleria MLB
2016 Budapest, Paesaggo archeologici
2019 Praga, Biennale
Internazionale, Istituto italiano di cultura
2019 Art Paris 2019, Espace Thorigny
Contea Di Levante
2003 Varese Ligure,
Castello dei Fieschi, Dalla contea di levante, itinerario dall’entroterra al
mare
2003 Zoagli, Castello
del duca
2004 Sestri Levante
(GE), Fondazione Mediaterraneo, Linea d’orizzonte
2005 La Spezia, Centro
Allende, La scala del verde
2005 Sestri Levante, Fondazione Mediaterraneo
2006 Scarborough (UK), Crescent Art Gallery, Shades of
Green
2006 York (UK), Castle Howard, Shades of Green
2006 Lavagna, Casa
Carbone, Paesaggio con anima
2011 Copenaghen,
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
2014 Sestri Levante, Museo archeologico
