Biography
Enzo Gagliardino is born in Brandizzo (Torino), in 1949. At 18 years old, he left his hometown and started traveling the world. He stayed for a long period in Europe (Paris, Marseille, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Bruxelles, London) then in South America, Africa and Far East. In these years he met artists such as Hans Hartung, Vasarely, Mondino, Biras, Arroyo and, while in Paris the Centre Pompidou is raising, Gagliardino frequented the most important european Art Museums and got closer to the History of Art. In 1973 he came back in Italy and started painting by himself. His first subjects are waiting rooms, canteens, hospital’s corridors, boxing gyms: closed spaces that refer to a kafkaesque vision of existence. Between the 1976 and the beginning of ‘80s, the artist works on a cycle based on the imprisonment theme, great dimensions, high-emotional impact, that represent prison structures. The passage to closed and suffocating spaces of urban architectures takes place in the ‘80s, when Enzo starts painting façades, windows and urban furniture, elements that define the sky line of the worldwide world metropolis. The attention to the detail is accomplished in the use of the ‘brick’: it’s the wall – metaphor of life, artificial body that separates the inside from the outside, membrane that protects and limits at the same time the movement – that comes back constantly in the last great dimensions works of Enzo Gagliardino.
Exhibitions
2015
Galleria Due Gi, Jesi
Castello di Rivara, Torino
Galleria Artesilva, Seregno
Galleria Due Gi, Jesi
Castello di Rivara, Torino
Galleria Artesilva, Seregno
2014
Galleria Franz Paludetto, Torino
Castello di Rivara, Torino
Galleria Franz Paludetto, Roma
Spazio dell’Impluvium della Triennale di Milano
Fondazione 107, Torino
2013
Chiostri di Santa Caterina, Finale Ligure
2012
Atelier du pré, Cannes
Allegretti Contemporanea, Torino
2011
Centro ricerca Accademia di Brera – Dipartimento di Arti Visive, Milano
2010
Palazzo Lomellina, Carmagnola
Galleria Punto Due, Calice Ligure
Galleria Blu Box, Asti
2009
ArtVerona, Stand Artesilva
2008
Assessorato alla cultura, Torino
Castello di Rivara, Torino
2007
Casa del Console Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Calice Ligure
MiArt, Milano Stand Franz Paludetto
2006
Spazio Cesare da Sesto, Sesto Calende
Casa del Console Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Calice Ligure
Castello di Rivara, Torino
Villa Giulia, Verbania
ArtVerona, Stand Franz Paludetto
MiArt, Milano, stand Franz Paludetto
Artissima, Torino, stand Castello di Rivara
2005
Galleria Artesilva, Seregno
ArtVerona, stand Artesilva
2004
Barbara Behan Contemporary Art, Londra
2003
Spazia galleria d’arte, Bologna
6° premio Internazionale Ermanno Casoli, Serra San Quirico
Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea, Torino
2002
Casa Bonomi, Varese
Museo della Permanente, Milano
Galleria Vincaia, Milano
Exit, Bologna
2001
Galleria Raffaella Sibernagl – Daverio,Varese
2000
Galleria Paolo Maiorana, Brescia
1998
Artissima, Torino, stand Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea
Galleria Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea, Torino
1995
Riparte, Roma
1994
Artissima, Torino, stand Overstudio
1992
Arte Roma, Palazzo dei Congressi, EUR, Roma
Galleria Nova, Torino
Galleria Nova, Roma
1990
Galleria San Michele, Brescia