Thomas Berra

Selected Works

Nelle sere azzurre d’estate andrò per i sentieri, pizzicato dal grano, a calpestare l’erba tenera: come in sogno ne sentirò il fresco nei piedi. Lascerò che il vento bagni la mia testa nuda. Non dirò nulla, non penserò a niente:ma l’amore che non ha fine mi riempirà l’anima, e andrò lontano, molto lontano,come un vagabondo attraverso la Natura,felice come quando si sta con una donna.

Sensazione (Arthur Rimbaud)

from the series Dopo il Diluvio - Elogio delle Vagabonde (2017)partial view of the show, Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, Italy. Photo Cosimo Filippini

Elogio delle Vagabonde is a series of paintings that, through colour, focuses on plants, undergrowth and unwanted plants. Vagabonde are the weeds which grow in the interstitial urban voids. They usually are removed because infesting, but they resist. Through the botanical paradigm of the biodiversity, Elogio delle Vagabonde expresses the need of inclusion, the importance of defending difference.

https://zero.eu/persone/thomas-berra-intervista-radi-cale/

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from the series Dopo il Diluvio - Elogio delle Vagabonde (2017)partial view of the show, Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, Italy. Photo Cosimo Filippini

Elogio delle Vagabonde is a series of paintings that, through colour, focuses on plants, undergrowth and unwanted plants. Vagabonde are the weeds which grow in the interstitial urban voids. They usually are removed because infesting, but they resist. Through the botanical paradigm of the biodiversity, Elogio delle Vagabonde expresses the need of inclusion, the importance of defending difference.

THOMAS (2015)Partial view, Room Galleria, Milano, Italy. Paint Drawing Sculpture on wall. Environmental dimensions.Photo Zeno Zotti. Courtesy Room galleria, Milano

The totality of materials collected and produced by the artist inside his own studio during the past eight years, has been displaced into the Room Gallery, in Milano. More than 800 objects (paintings, drawings, sculptures, sketches, etc.) have been arranged on the walls of the exhibition space. The two places establish a reciprocal connection, the first one becoming the negative of the other one.

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http://atpdiary.com/exhibit/interview-with-tho-mas-berra/

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THOMAS (2015)Installation view, Room Galleria, Milano, Italy. Paint Drawing Sculpture on wall. Environmental dimensions.Photo Zeno Zotti. Courtesy Room galleria, Milano

The totality of materials collected and produced by the artist inside his own studio during the past eight years, has been displaced into the Room Gallery, in Milano. More than 800 objects (paintings, drawings, sculptures, sketches, etc.) have been arranged on the walls of the exhibition space. The two places establish a reciprocal connection, the first one becoming the negative of the other one.

I’ll be your mirror (2015)Installation view, Wilson Project Space, Sassari, Italy.n.500 drawings, acrylic on paper, 29,5 x 21 cm each

The project (2010-ongoing) arose as a tribute to the volume One Thousand Drawings by Tracey Emin. In the past seven years, more than 1500 drawings have been produced.

I’ll be your mirror (2015)installation view, Wilson Project Space, Sassari, Italy.n.500 drawings, acrylic on paper, 29,5 x 21 cm each

The project (2010-ongoing) arose as a tribute to the volume One Thousand Drawings by Tracey Emin. In the past seven years, more than 1500 drawings have been produced.

Souvenir di Milano (2015) Drawings projected on Palazzo Mezzanotte, Piazza Affari, Milano, Italy. Photo Zeno Zotti

During the Design fashion week 2015, in Milano, a program of projections was organized by Sky Arte, Seletti and Toilet Paper, on the façade of Palazzo Mezzanotte, Piazza Affari, in front of L.O.V.E. by the artist Maurizio Cattelan.

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Casabarata #1 (2014)View, Banca Sistema Milano, Italy.Wood, plastic, fabric, iron. 210 x 110 x 90 cmPhoto Zeno Zotti. Courtesy Banca Sistema, Milano

Casa Barata is a neighborhood of Tangeri. The project was developed during a stay in Tangeri, Morocco, as a visual diary made by works in different size and media. In particular, a series of 8 large-scale sculptures/houses (made by waste materials collected on site), a series of 30 water colors (Moroccan soil, pencil and water on paper), and two series of 40 paintings (acrilics on canvas and enamels on paper). The whole project was presented at Banca Sistema, Milano, in 2014.

Next page: Casabarata #2, view and detail (interior), Banca Sistema, Milano.

CIAO (2012)Installation view, Room Galleria, Milano.Oil on canvas, 200 x 500 cm, sound track, speakers.Photo Alberto Favare

CV

Thomas Berra (1986, Italy)

Education2012: leaves the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, Milano.

Residencies 2013: Tabadoul space, Tangier, Morocco.2014: Hyde park Art Center, Chicago, USA.2015: MANA contemporary, Chicago, USA.2017: Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome, Italy; Schafhof – European House of Art Upper Bavaria, Frisinga, Monaco, Germany.

Special Projects2012: founds Labrouge, an artist run space for experimental projects by emerging artists, Milano, IT2014: founds SubCulture Fanzine, an editorial collective project, Milano, IT.

Selected Solo Shows2017: Verde Indagine, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy (upcoming); Dopo il Diluvio, Villa Vertua Masolo, Nova Milanese, Italy, curated by S. Squadrito. 2015: CIAO, Mana Contemporary Studio, Chicago, USA, curated by M. Faingold; 8 ½, Spazio 1929, Lugano, Switzerland, curated by C. Zarattini; THOMAS, Room Galleria, Milano, Italy, curated by C. Lioce.2014: Casabarata, Banca Sistema, Milano, Italy, curated by A. Barrera.2013: I’ll be your Mirror, The Wilson project space, Sassari, Italy, curated by D. L. Costa.2012: CIAO, Room Galleria, Milano, Italy, curated by C. Lioce; Contemporary Times \ Alla ricerca del tempo perso e del tempo guadagnato, Unicredit, SuperStudiopiù, Milano, Italy, curated by A. Loveday.

Selected Group Shows2017: Premio Sei Artista, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma, Italy (upcoming)2016: A Christmas carrol, group show, Placentia Arte, Piacenza, Italy; The Mania for Vacationing, Summer Studio, Treviso, Italy, curated by Suppiej & Zanato; Asa Nisi Masa, Collezione Vedovamazzei, Studi Festival #2, Milano, Italy, curated by B. Marrapodi; Carrus Na-valis, Dimora Artica, Milano, Italy, curated by A. Lacarpia; SubCulture Fanzine, Edicola Radetzky, Milano, Italy.2015: Souvenir, public projection, Palazzo Mezzanotte, piazza Affari, Milano, Italy, parallel event Design week, curated by Sky Arte, Seletti, Toilet Paper; IMAGO MUNDI, Fondazione San-dretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino and Fondazione Cini, Venezia, Italy.2014: Enzo, a Project by Dario Lino Costa, The Wilson Project Space, Sassari, Italy.2013: I am - L’arte della memoria, a Project by Carlotta Zarattini, Villa Paradiso, Lugano, Switzerland; Two and a half/ correspondence of innumerable sensations – Tabadoul space, Tangier, Morocco.2012: Crises and Rises, Palazzo delle Stelline, Milano, Italy, curated by R Farinotti in collaboration with the Institut Français; Myland, Zangbieri Galerie & Kunsthandel, Basel, Swit-zerland.2011: LIFE, Omaggio a Tracey Emin, San Lorenzo Project / Step09, Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia, Milano, Italy.

Awards2013: Unicredit Prize, Milano, IT 2017: Premio Sei Artista, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Roma, IT

CollectionsBanca Sistema Collection, Milano.Unicredit Collection, Milano.

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