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Dario Ghibaudo

Dario Ghibaudo was born in Cuneo, lives and works in Milan. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1990. He exhibited in Italy in Venice at the Open 2005, international exhibition of sculpture, and in Milan at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation. Abroad, in Brussels, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Yerevan, Buenos Aires. In Cuneo, he is the author of the celebratory monument to Giuseppe Peano entitled Curva di Peano, created in 1998. His works include the Archive of the artist’s noses (by Andrea Serrano, Orleans, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Enrico Baj and others). The nose is placed on paper, placed in a cardboard box that collects it as a packaging box. For the artist, a nose recalls an entire face, imagining an entire portrait where the somatic features are mentally reconstructed around a single detail. The virtual archive, created in 1994, now has 70 examples of work. The noses, a selection of 15, were exhibited for the first and only time in Germany in ’98. Also worth mentioning is the project based on the enlightenment system of cataloguing and scientific recording, the vast cycle in continuous growth since 1990, the Museum of Unnatural History, full of creatures and fantastic characters, all works made strictly of synthetic materials.

Dario Ghibaudo

Dario Ghibaudo was born in Cuneo, lives and works in Milan. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1990. He exhibited in Italy in Venice at the Open 2005, international exhibition of sculpture, and in Milan at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation. Abroad, in Brussels, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Yerevan, Buenos Aires. In Cuneo, he is the author of the celebratory monument to Giuseppe Peano entitled Curva di Peano, created in 1998. His works include the Archive of the artist’s noses (by Andrea Serrano, Orleans, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Enrico Baj and others). The nose is placed on paper, placed in a cardboard box that collects it as a packaging box. For the artist, a nose recalls an entire face, imagining an entire portrait where the somatic features are mentally reconstructed around a single detail. The virtual archive, created in 1994, now has 70 examples of work. The noses, a selection of 15, were exhibited for the first and only time in Germany in ’98. Also worth mentioning is the project based on the enlightenment system of cataloguing and scientific recording, the vast cycle in continuous growth since 1990, the Museum of Unnatural History, full of creatures and fantastic characters, all works made strictly of synthetic materials.

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“It is unnatural everything that is educated by man”
Jean Jaques Rousseau

Masked as a playful scientific catalog the works by Dario Ghibaudo out of his series “Museum Of Unnatural History”, ongoing since 1990, truly face the theme of the human condition. Animals and plants out of the ordinary, that at first sight seem recognizable, are gradually discovered from the viewer as the most exotic and improbable fruits of a wild imagination, or a genetically modified experiment, turned wrong. The anomalous is perceived more than seen, also in this case, exactly as it happens in the real natural world, as much as in human society and even in psychology. The borders of “normality” are fluid and change so radically following so many factors such as culture, religion, geography, politics, family dynamics, and education, that except for some extreme cases, are very hard to set.
The collection of Ghibaudo’s weird creatures remind us of our inner weirdness, exoticism, and uniqueness as to underline that all the peculiar characteristics that make each one of us as a unique being, are our strength. At the same time, those characteristics could be the triggering excuses for all those social tensions and discriminations fruit of the human difficulty of accepting what is different and external of our own personal micro-cosmos, on a personal level as much as on the communal one. A fact underlined by the many references to the captivity of exotic animals, plants, and “curiosities” – people included – collected by explorers and scientists over the centuries.
Ghibaudo gives life to his astonishing, fantastic creatures, going further than Salvador Dali, who created monstrous sculptures in bronze, just by stretching their proportions. Dario gave his animals life, skin, breath, thoughts, and emotions. We believe the artist that they are one hundred percent real, thanks to the choice of the material he uses. Limoges’ porcelain is one of the most fragile materials used for sculptures. By choosing it, the artist tells us that the world and the existence of these creatures are fragile, they are an endangered species, needing protection and respect, as a symbolic invitation to protect and nourish ourselves and all the peculiarities making us unique. 

Structured as a 17th-Century Museum of Natural History, the project is subdivided into halls and ideally split into major topics of “ironical-scientific” research: Anthropology, Entomology, Rare Specimens, Botany, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Anamorphosis, etc. Continuing with the hall of the Busts, the hall of Inks on paper, the hall of artist Noses and the large stone sculptures and, in the last few years the “Marvellous Creatures” shaped in porcelain or white clay or even in concrete and marble powder.
As of today, Dario Ghibaudo has created twenty-one halls.
Since 1994 he has been working on the Archive of artist’s noses, a project that as of now counts around seventy specimens among which there are the casts of the noses of Andrés Serrano, Orlan, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Enrico Baj, Piero Gilardi, Stefano Arienti and others.
In 1997 he produced an 18 minutes long documentary movie directed by Alberto Valtellina and entitled “L’uomo è cacciatore” (“Man is a hunter”).
In 2000 he produced the 16 minutes long documentary movie “Furio” and in 2010 “Incontro con il Comandante Giovanni Pesce e la staffetta Nori Brambilla” (“Meeting with the Captain Giovanni Pesce and the courier Nori Brambilla”) again with the Lab80 Film company of Bergamo, and the 42 minutes long short movie “Il vizio della memoria” (“The voice of memory”) which tells about the underwater feats of Guidobaldo Dalla Rosa Prati.
His works are part of public and private collections: Chateau d’Oiron (Fr), Kunstmuseum of Stuttgart, Mart of Rovereto, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art of Yerevan (Armenia), the Vaf collection of Francoforte, the collection of the Igav Foundation in Turin, La Gaia collection of Busca (CN).

Exhibitions

2019
Matanzas (Cuba), Bienal de l’Habana – “Rìos Intermitentes” curated by Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons
Turin, Reggia di Venaria Reale, “Cani in posa”, curated by Francesco Petrucci

2018
Verona, Arte Fiera with Galleria Pack
Rome, Galleria De Ambrogi @ Cluster art gallery “Creature Meravigliose” solo show curated by Luigi de Ambrogi
Rome, Visionarea Art Space “Magno Subsidio” solo show kuratiert von Luigi De Ambrogi
Milan, Galleria Pack, Sala XVIII – “Creature Meravigliose”, solo show curated by Luigi De Ambrogi

2017
Spoleto, Casa Romana “Sculture da viaggio” solo show curated by Gianluca Marziani

2015
Andora, Palazzo Tagliaferro “Museo di Storia Innaturale” solo show curated by Matteo Bergamini
Oiron, (Fr) Chateau d’Oiron, “Musèe d’Histoire In-Naturelle”solo show curated by Paul- Hervè Parsy and Patrick Amine

2014
Turin, Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea “Sculture da viaggio” solo show

2013
Milan, Museo Poldi Pezzoli & Gallerie d’Italia, “Wunderkammers” curated by Martina Mazzotta and Lavinia Galli
Moscow, 5° Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art. Besondere Veranstaltung.Group show curated by Martina Corgnati Parigi,
Saint Germain en Laye (F) Musée d’Archéologie Nationale “Le Nouvelles Folies Francaises” group show curated by Patrick Amine
Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Borges “Venti per Una – America Latina. Venti regioni per una Italia. Venti artisti per una mostra” group show curated by Martina Corgnati

2012
Spoleto, Palazzo Comunale, Cappella di San Ponziano, “50+1 Sculture in città tra memoria 1962 e presente 2012” group show curated by Gianluca Marziani
Yerevan (Armenia) Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art “Remote Sensing” group show curated by Martina Corgnati
Milan, Fondazione Maimeri, “Il dolore di altri animali” group show curated by Elisabetta Longari

2011
Turin, Deutsche Bank “Vernissage” group show kuratiert von Palazzo Leonardo Arte e Cultura
Turin, Galleria Zabert “Sala XV Antropologia Culturale I peccati capitali sono otto” solo show curated by Matteo Bergamini
Rovereto (TN) MART “VAF Percorsi riscoperti” group show curated by Gabriella Belli and Daniela Ferrari

2010
Milan Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro “La scultura italiana nel XXI secolo” group show curated by Marco Meneguzzo
Parma, Palazzo dalla Rosa Prati “Cinquecentocinquanta pesci fuor d’acqua” solo show curated by Patrick Amine

2009
Venice, 53° biennale, External event, Ca’ d’Oro Galleria Franchetti, “L’anima dell’acqua” group show curated by Silvia Fabbri

2008
Turin, Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea “Museo di Storia Innaturale, Sala XIII pesci e anfibi: Cinquecentocinquanta pesci fuor d’acqua” solo show
Milan, Fondazione Stelline “Cento e più ceramiche per il paradiso” group show curated by Sergio Calatroni

2007
Bollate (Mi), Fabbrica Borroni “La nuova figurazione italiana to be continued” group show curated by Chiara Canali
Milan, Palazzo della Triennale. “Anni Settanta il decennio lungo del secolo breve” group show curated by Francesca Alfano Miglietti

2006
Turin, Palazzo delle Esposizioni “ManifesTo” group show curated by Riccardo Passoni
Shanghai-Beijing, Urban Planning Exhibition Center “Nature and metamorphosis” group show curated by Marisa Vescovo

2005
Turin, “ManifesTO” group show curated by Gallerie d’Arte Moderna & Contemporanea
Turin, Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea, “Museo di Storia Innaturale, Sala X Etnografia: Calpestabile” solo show
Genazzano (Rome) für zeitgenössische Kunst “PlotArt Europa” group show curated by Gianluca Marziani
Venice Lido, “Open 2005 Esposizione Internazionale di Scultura” group show curated byPaolo De Grandis
Milan, Loggia dei Mercanti & Palazzo della Ragione “Miracolo a Milano” group show curated by Alessandro Riva,
Frankfurt, Die Galerie “Un’estate italiana Figurative Kunst aus Italien” group show curated by Klaus Wolbert

2004
Siena, Complesso Museale di Santa Maria alla Scala, Palazzo delle Papesse, Magazzini del Sale “Ipermercati dell’Arte” group show curated by Omar Calabrese
Genova, Magazzini del Cotone “Quotidiane Meraviglie” group show curated by Alessandro Mendini
Frankfurt (D), “Figurative Kunst aus Italien” group show curated by Klaus Wolbert
San Gabriele (Teramo), “XII Biennale di Arte Sacra” group show curated by Marisa Vescovo
Turin, Paolo Tonin Arte Contemporanea “Museo di Storia Innaturale, Sala XII Etnologia: SIAMO DEI” solo show. Text by Roberto Mussapi
Berchidda (SS), Museo PAV “Mind the gap” group show curated by Giannella de Muro and Antonello Fresu

2003
Trento, MART Palazzo delle Albere “Tendenze attuali dell’arte italiana” group show curated by Marco Meneguzzo
Darmstadt (G), Mathildenhohe Institute “Aktuelle Positionen italienischer Kunst” group show curated by Fondazione VAF

2002
Prato, Cantieri Culturali Ex Macelli “Sumptuous” group show curated by Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea
Milan, Palazzo dell’Arengario “Tutto l’odio del mondo” group show curated by Alessandro Riva
Parma, Palazzo Pigorini “Una Babele postmoderna” group show curated by Edoardo Di Mauro

2001
Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni “Dalla Mini al mini” Gruppenausstellung kuratiert von Gianluca Marziani Turin M.A.U. Museo di Arte Urbana, Galleria Campidoglio group show curated by Edoardo di Mauro

2000
Milan, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea “Sui generis” curated by Alessandro Riva
Mannheim (D) Galerie Angelo Falzone “Museo di Storia Innaturale, Sala XI, I Diorami” solo show curated by Gianluca Marziani
Rome Palazzo delle Esposizioni “Welchome” group show curated by Gianluca Marziani
Trevi (Pg), Flash Art Museum “Ironic” group show curated by Michele Robecchi and Giacinto Di Pietrantonio

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