Andrea Fontanari

Andrea Fontanari was born in Trento (IT) in 1996. He lives and works between Trento and Venice.

"Andrea Fontanari paints moments that focus on a new vision of the ordinary. Andrea Fontanari has lived in those rooms, slept in that bed, observed those stairs, left those places, painted them in his studio and gives back extraordinarily paintings that start from a hyper-realistic intent and - working by subtraction - leave us to the nature of light and colour."

- Gigi Zoppello

He was recently invited to partecipate in the group show Pittura italiana oggi at Milano Triennale (October 2023 - February 2024).
In 2023 he was selected by critic Luca Beatrice for Supernova 23, an exhibition project hosted in the area of Gallerie d'Italia - Intesa SanPaolo within Miart.
He was selected for the 21st Cairo Prize which will be held at Palazzo Reale in Milan in October 2022. In November 2020 he presented his first solo show at Boccanera Gallery. He was recently selected for the Artistic Prize Fondazione VAF 2019. I
n 2017 he was selected among the five Italian artists under 35 to participate in the itinerant European Contemporary Art Biennale JCE - Jeune Création Européenne (2017-2019).

Solo Exhibitions

2024
The monumental ordinary, Boccanera Gallery, Trento, Italy (upcoming solo show)

2023
Assolo #4 opere su carta, Francesca Antonini Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2021
Boccanera Gallery, Milano, Italy

2020
Knock before entering, Boccanera Gallery, Trento, Italy

2019
MyNameIsAndreaFontanari, Boccanera Gallery, Milan, Italy

2017
Art is not a familiar place, solo exhibition within the performance/installation by Margherita Berlanda, curator: Giusi Campisi, Alessandra Benacchio, Trento, Italy

2016
Just an echo of flowers, Luca Coser Studio, Trento, Italy
Ex Voto, painting installation in the 'Festival Pergine Spettacolo Aperto', curator: Carla Esperanza Tommasini, Trento, Italy
Time pattern, curator: Elena Lunghi, Festival Dominio Pubblico, Roma, Italy