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 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 (1955, Cuneo, Italy) is a sculptor and mixed-media artist who lives and works in Milan. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1990. Since that year he has developed his central lifelong project, the Museo di Storia Innaturale (Museum of Unnatural History), structured as a seventeenth-century natural history museum and organized into halls devoted to ironical-scientific research including Anthropology, Entomology, Rare Specimens, Botany, Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, and Anamorphosis. The project now comprises twenty-one halls, including rooms of Busts, of Inks on paper, of artist Noses, and, in recent years, of “Marvellous Creatures” shaped in porcelain, white clay, concrete, or marble powder.
Since 1994 he has maintained the Archive of Artists’ Noses, a virtual archive that now holds around seventy cast specimens, including noses of Andrés Serrano, Orlan, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Enrico Baj, Piero Gilardi, and Stefano Arienti, each mounted on paper and packaged in a cardboard box. The critic Achille Bonito Oliva has described Ghibaudo’s practice as drawing on nature’s small, heroic presences to invite viewers into an estranging, mythologically charged version of the real. In the early 1990s Ghibaudo began studying animal mutation, work that later evolved into large sculptures resembling a medieval bestiary built around ideas of evolution and metamorphosis, often realized in recycled plastic.
His exhibition history in Italy includes Open 2005, the international sculpture exhibition in Venice, and shows at the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan, alongside international presentations in Brussels, Wiesbaden, Darmstadt, Frankfurt, Shanghai, Yerevan, and Buenos Aires. In his hometown of Cuneo, he created the 1998 monument to mathematician Giuseppe Peano, titled Curva di Peano.