Michele Zaza

Michele Zaza (Molfetta, 1948) attended Marino Marini's sculpture course at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he graduated in 1971. He immediately dedicated himself to expressive research conducted through the photographic medium and since the early 1970s he has been part of the international art scene. In 1972 he held his first exhibition at the Diagramma Gallery in Milan followed by various other personal exhibitions, including in 1973 at the Galleria Marilena Bonomo in Bari; in 1974 at the Massimo Minini Gallery (Banco) in Brescia; in 1975 at the Annemarie Verna Galerie in Zurich; in 1976 at the Galleria Ugo Ferranti in Rome, at the Galleria Lucio Amelio in Naples and at the Galerie Yvon Lambert in Paris. In 1977 he is in New York, where he exhibits with Giulio Paolini at the Fine Arts Building. In 1980, also in New York, he held a solo show at the Leo Castelli Gallery. In the same year he was present at the Venice Biennale with a personal room. In 1981 he was instead in Paris with a solo show at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. Among the group shows, in 1977 and 1982 he took part in Documenta in Kassel. In the eighties and nineties he exhibited in Paris, at the Center Pompidou, and at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin. In 2000 he presented his work at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome and in 2004 at the Cabinet des Estampes in Geneva. In 2010 it is again on display in Rome with a solo exhibition at the Volume Foundation! and is exhibited at the Giorgio Persano Gallery in Turin in the collective Geography without cardinal points. In 2011 he is in Martina Franca at the Noesi Foundation and in Prato at the Pecci Museum. In 2013 the Galleria Giorgio Persano in Turin dedicates a solo show to him. In 2014 it is on display at the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome. In 2016 FM Center for Contemporary Art of Milan exhibited it in the collective L'Inarchiviabile / The Unarchivable. His works are kept in various public collections, including: Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Öffentliche Kunstsammlung (Basel); Corrado Giaquinto Provincial Art Gallery (Bari); Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Egidio Marzona Collection (Berlin); Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d’Art et d’Histoire (Geneva); Musée de Grenoble (Grenoble); Cantonal Art Museum (Lugano); Walker Art Center (Minneapolis); Center Georges Pompidou - Musée National d’Art Moderne (Paris); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (Paris); Fonds National d’Art Contemporain (Paris); Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Champagne-Ardenne (Reims); National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (Rome); Museum of Modern Art (Saint-Etienne); Graphische Sammlung - Staatsgalerie, Rolf H. Krauss Collection (Stuttgart); Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (Tehran); Museum of Art (Toulon); Kunsthaus Zürich (Zurich).

Source: Labs Gallery