Paolo Canevari

Canevari presents highly recognizable, commonplace symbols in order to comment on such concept as religion, the urban myths of happiness or the major principles behind creation and destruction.

In 2002 the publisher Charta devoted a monograph with essays by Andrea Camilleri, Mario Codognato, Doris von Draten, Chrissie Iles and Valerio Magrelli to Canevari.

In 2007 Canevari participates at the 52nd Biennale Internazionale di Venezia curated by Robert Storr with the video "Bouncing Skull" which will become in 2008 part of the MoMA permanent collection in New York.

Other solo exhibitions in 2008: “Decalogo” at the Calcografia Nazionale, Istituto per la Grafica Roma, MoMA New York “Raw-War” curated by Klaus Biesenbach.

In 2011 the solo show “Decalogo” at The Drawing Center, New York.In 2014 Out of Left Field, 4th Quadrilateral Biennial, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia.

From 2011 Canevari undertook the “Monuments of the Memory” series; a piece of research based upon the traditional mediums of painting, sculpture and drawing.