Andrea Respino
(Italy, 1976) lives and works in Turin.
In 2018 Respino has undertaken a solo career after a ten years collaboration with Davide Gennarino. As the duo Alis/Filliol they have had solo exhibitions at Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy (2017); Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris, France (2016); MEF Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy (2015); GAM, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, Italy, (2014); Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy (2013), among others. Their works have also been shown in several group exhibitions, including: Intuition, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, Italy (2017); Être Chose, Centre international d’art et du paysage de Vassivière, Ile de Vassivière, France (2015); Codice Italia, Italian Pavilion 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale (2015) and Le Statue Calde. Scultura-corpo-azione 1945-2013, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy (2014).
Shows as Andrea Respino
2023
Pittura italiana oggi, curated by Damiano Gullì, Triennale Milano, Milan
About Painting III, Galerie Rolando Anselmi, Rome
Pittura XXI (curated by Davide Ferri), a solo presentation with Monitor, Artefiera, Bologna
Corrotto Cosmo, Madragoa, Lisbon 2021
Straperetana 2021, The New Abnormal, curated by Saverio Verini in collaboration with Matteo Fato, Pereto
Sul Disegno e la Pittura (Ne Usciremo), curated by Renato Leotta, Madragoa, Lisbon 2020
The Milky Way 5, curated by Damiana Leoni, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin 2019
Mai un vestito dunque, adeguato (with Sara Enrico), Quartz Studio, Turin 2007
Poi piovve dentro a l’alta fantasia. La fantasia è un posto dove ci piove dentro, curated by a.titolo, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
2006
O Youth and Beauty. Proposte XXI, curated by a.titolo and vedovamazzei, Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin
Selected solo shows as Alis/Filliol
2017
EUD, curated by Simone Menegoi, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan The Ifth of the Oofth (with Invernomuto), pinksummer goes to Rome, Rome 2016
Ultraterra, pinksummer, Genoa 2015
Né umano, né inumano, curated by Marina Valensise, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris
Almost Human, Baco Project Space, Bergamo 2014
ZOGO, with a text by Simone Menegoi, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin
Vitrine, curated by Anna Musini, GAM Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Turin 2013
Calco di due corpi in movimento nello spazio, with a text by Michele D’Aurizio, Fondazione Rossini, Monza Greater Torino, curated by Irene Calderoni and Maria Teresa Roberto, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
Grand Trou, curated by Benedetta Carpi De Resmini, Ex Elettrofonica, Rome
Goodbye, DNA Project Box, Venice 2012
Check your totem, pinksummer, Genoa
Ogni cosa a suo tempo (with Navid Nuur), curated by Stefano Raimondi and Mauro Zanchi, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, Bergamo
2010
Calco di due corpi in movimento nello spazio (with Renato Leotta), curated by Beniamino Foschini, Cripta747, Turin
Testa di sirena urlante, MARS, Milan
Pieeeeetraaaaaaaaaa!, curated by Renato Leotta, Gum Studio, Carrara
Paesaggi a scavare, curated by Carlo Fossati, blank, Turin
Selected group shows as Alis/Filliol
2017
Intuition, curated by Daniela Ferretti and Axel Vervoordt, co-curators Dario Dalla Lana, Davide Daninos, Anne-Sophie Dusselier, Palazzo Fortuny, Venice
Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria Martini, Artissima, Turin 2016
Artline Milano. 30 progetti per il Parco d’Arte Contemporanea, curated by Sara Dolfi Agostini and Roberto Pinto, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2015
Être chose, curated by Marianne Lanavère and Gyan Panchal, Centre International d’art et du paysage, Ile de Vassivière – Treignac, France
Codice Italia, curated by Vincenzo Trione, Italian Pavilion 56th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale
Inclinazioni, curated by Stefano Collicelli Cagol, Artissima, Turin
Ce l’ho / Mi manca, curated by Agata Polizzi, Museo Madralisca, Palermo 2014
Le statue calde. Scultura-corpo-azione 1945-2013, curated by Simone Menegoi, Museo Marino Marini, Florence
Killing Floor II, curated by Carlo Fossati, blank, Turin
I baffi del bambino, curated by Luca Bertolo, Lucie Fontaine, Milan Keep it real, curated by Andrea De Stefani, Ventura XV, Milan 2013
Post-classici, curated by Vincenzo Trione, Foro Romano, Rome
Relazioni reciproche, curated by Claudia Santeroni, Porta Sant’Agostino, Bergamo
Osmosis, a project by Luiss Master of art, Stazione Tiburtina, Rome 2012
Versus XVIII, curated by Francesca Referza, Velan Center, Turin
Venti per una, curated by Martina Corgnati, Castiglia, Saluzzo and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, La Plata, Argentine
Neve chimica, curated by Lorenzo Balbi, Casa Olimpia, Sestriere
Long Play, XXIV Edizione Premio Nazionale Arti Visive, selected by Anna Daneri, MAGA, Gallarate Zone di Incandescenza, curated by Simone Sandretti, Luca Poma and Luca Atzori, Associazione Barriera, Turin
Azimut, curated by Alice Ginaldi, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Belluno 2011
Posso errare ma non di core: passato prossimo e futuro anteriore dell’Italia, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria
Comunale d’Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone
Del povero B.B., curated by Beniamino Foschini, Gum Studio, Carrara
Take the Leap. Annual Benefit, Peep-Hole, Milan
Pleure qui peut, rit qui veut _ Premio Furla per l’Arte, curated by Chiara Bertola, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna
2010
A as Stone, curated by Marianne Lanavère and Simone Menegoi, SpazioA, Pistoia
Fort/da, curated by Alis/Filliol, CARS, Omegna
Titolo Grosso, Cripta747, Turin 2008
No Location, Relocation, curated by Milovan Farronato, A.T. Kearney, Milan
Awards, workshops and residency programs
2015 Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris 2015 Premio Moroso, Villa Manin, Udine
2012 Premio Nazionale Arti Visive Città di Gallarate, MAGA, Gallarate 2011 Premio Furla per l’Arte, Palazzo Pepoli, Bologna
2011 Azimut Sass Muss Dolomiti Contemporanee, Belluno 2010 CARS, Omegna
2008 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte (visiting professor Milovan Farronato), Turin
2007 Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte (visiting professor Diego Perrone), Turin
Selected projects and collaborations
As Andrea Respino
2021
Valentino Des Ateliers, a collaborative project conceived by Pierpaolo Piccioli with Gianluigi Ricuperati and the artists involved in the frame of the Haute Couture FW 2021-22, Le Gaggiandre/Arsenale, Venice
2018
Artist at Work, with Sara Enrico and Byron Westbrook, a reading which included my novel Children’s Games (Possible drafts for a tribute to Bruegel), ISCP International Studios and Curatorial Program, New York
2018
Contribution (novel) for Inches, Feet, Verse, Metre, a show and a public program by Ludovica Carbotta and Sara Enrico, Marsèlleria, New York
As Alis/Filliol
2014
Poetical Politics, curated by Paolo Falcone, Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, Palermo 2013
Mystery sonata, a ballet by Raphael Bianco, installation conceived by Alis/Filliol, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
2011
Ceci n’est pas du Cinema!, curated by Marcella Beccaria, Andrea Bellini, Francesco Bernardelli, Beatrice Merz and Marianna Vecellio, Castello di Rivoli in collaboration with Cinema Massimo, Turin
2008-2012
Progetto Diogene, Turin
Selected bibliography
Davide Dal Sasso, Tra drammaturgia e pittura. Intervista ad Andrea Respino, Dialoghi di Estetica, Artribune 2021
Vincenzo Estremo, A conversation with Sara Enrico and Andrea Respino, Droste Magazine 2019 Silvia Conta, Sara Enrico e Andrea Respino a Quartz Studio, Exibart 2019
Alessandra Pioselli, Ultraterra, Artforum 2017
Simone Menegoi, EUD, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milano 2017 (c) Sofia Silva, Ultraterra, IL MAGAZINE, Il sole 24ORE 2016
Karen Wright, Alis/Filliol, The Indipendent, January 2016
Rosa Matteucci, Da pinksummer mi sono sentita sola e nuda, mentelocale, September 2016
AAVV, Intuition, Axel & May Vervoordt Foundation in collaboration with MER. Paper Kunsthalle, Gand 2016 (c)
AAVV, Codice Italia, Bompiani Editore, Milano 2015 (c)
Anna Musini, Vitrine, Galleria d’arte moderna e contemporanea, Torino 2015 (c)
Laura Barreca, Andrea Lissoni, Luca Lo Pinto and Costanza Paissan, Terrazza. Artisti storie luoghi in Italia negli anni zero, Marsilio Editori, Venezia 2014 (c) Simone Menegoi, Zogo, Fondazione Ettore Fico, Torino 2014 (c)
Irene Calderoni, Giorgina Bertolino, Greater Torino, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino 2013 (c)
Mauro Zanchi, Stefano Raimondi, Ogni cosa a suo tempo, Mousse Publishing, Milano 2012 (c)
Rita Alis, Marilena Filliol, Due mani destre, interview to the artist’s mothers, Flash Art 291, March 2011
Arancio umido, 2023, coloured pencil on panel, 29 x 24 cm, photo by Bruno Lopes, courtesy of the artist and Madragoa, Lisbon
Corrotto Cosmo #2, 2022, coloured pencil on panel, 97 x 78 cm, courtesy of the artist
Infastidite acque #3, 2022, coloured pencil on panel, 125 x 103 cm, photo by Bruno Lopes, courtesy of the artist and Madragoa, Lisbon
Infastidite acque #5, 2023, coloured pencil on panel, 125 x 103 cm, photo by Sebastiano Luciano, courtesy of the artist and Rolando Anselmi, Rome
Le calde correnti, 2023, coloured pencil on panel, 125 x 103 cm, photo by Sebastiano Luciano, courtesy of the artist and Rolando Anselmi, Rome