Bio
During his long career Pietro Consagra (Mazara del Vallo, Sicily, 1920 - Milan, 2005) touched upon all the different aspects of artistic creativity. While he produced the sculptures for which he is internationally acclaimed, he also painted and drew, exploring new media and techniques, wrote poetry and essays, designed buildings and large-scale urban installation, along with tiny pieces of jewelry. From 1948 onward he began to express in his sculptural works a "frontal vision" and unique viewing angle; this intention was endorsed by the Colloqui series, which secured his recognition at international level. In 1960 he was awarded the Sculpture Prize at the Venice Biennale. A retrospective of Consagra's work was staged at the National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome in 1989, and two years later he became the first sculptor to show abstract work in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. In 1980, he wrote an autobiography in Italian called Vita Mia or "My Life". He published a book of poetry in 1985 called Ci Penso Amo (ISBN L20000). He also wrote a book on city planning.
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Frontal sculpture 1947-1967, Robilant+Voena, Londra
2018 Trama, Un millimetro e Sottilissime, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
2017 Pietro Consagra & Ugo Mulas, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Londra
2016 Pietro Consagra, Galleria Tega, Milano
2015 Muraglia, Giardino del Museo del Vetro, Murano
2015 Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Palermo
2014 Muraglia “Cangrande” di Pietro Consagra, Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano
2012 Frontalità, Serrone della Villa Reale, Monza
2011 Doppia Bifrontale di Pietro Consagra, Isola di San Servolo, Venice International University, Venezia
2007-2008 Necessità del colore; Sculture e dipinti 1964-2000, Galleria dello Scudo, Museo di Castelvecchio, Verona
2004 Colloquio con la vita, Fonte d’Abisso Arte, Milano
2003 La “Doppia Bifrontale” di Pietro Consagra al Parlamento Europeo di Strasburgo, Parlamento Europeo, Strasburgo
2002 Pietre Consagra, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo
2001 Pietro Consagra. Ospite d’Onore, Palazzo delle Arti, Centro Akhenaton, Il Cairo
2001 Consagra Colore, Fonte d’Abisso Arte, Milano
2000 Pietro Consagra. Dipinti e sculture, Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stoccarda
2000 Pietro Consagra, Galleria Les Chances de l’Art, Bolzano
2000 Pietro Consagra, Palazzo Sertoli-Galleria Credito Valtellinese, Bolzano-Sondrio: Bolzano, Museion
2000 Pietro Consagra, Galleria d’Arte F. Russo, Roma