Bio
Maurizio Pometti was born in 1987 in Catania, where he lives and works. He graduated in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania. Painting is for him the place of memory, reconstructed through old photos in which he places an illusory present, of which the artist himself is a part. By choosing to paint memories never lived, he makes his works sections of a deceptive diary, in an attempt to model a new reality.
He has participated in several awards and exhibitions including: Art Market Budapest, Budapest (Hungary), 2014; Arteam Cup 2016, Palazzo del Monferrato, Alessandria, 2016; (Fe)male, San Rocco Museum of Contemporary Art, Trapani, 2017; Sleeping with Ghosts (solo), Giuseppe Veniero Project, Palermo, 2019; Wings (group exhibition), Isorropia Homegallery, Milan, 2019; Artivisive San Fedele Award 2019-2021. The Human and the Divine (finalist), Galleria San Fedele, Milan; Ligabue, The Rediscovered Figure (group painting exhibition), Antonio Ligabue Museum Foundation, Palazzo Bentivoglio, Gualtieri (RE), 2021; Winner of the Morlotti Award - Imbersago 17th Edition | An Alternative Landscape, Palazzo Comunale, Imbersago (LC), 2021; Artist Residencies Villa Greppi, Consorzio Brianteo Villa Greppi, Monticello Brianza (LC), 2022; “Trento Art Festival 2022” in collaboration with the Morlotti Prize - Imbersago, www.trentoartfestival.it; “Diario di Bordo”, MACC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Caltagirone, 2022; Under the bridge, Teatro Binario 7, Monza, 2022; Arteam Cup 2022, Fortezza del Priamar, Savona, 2022; Alternative Landscapes, solo exhibition, LeoGalleries, Monza, 2023; “Call to the Arts 2023”, group exhibition, Mucciaccia Contemporary, Rome; XVI City of Bozzolo Prize - Rethinking Space and Time, Palazzo dei Principi, Bozzolo (MN), 2023 – 2024; Morlotti Prize - Imbersago 17th Edition | An Alternative Landscape, Museo della Permanente, Milan, 2024; Arteam Cup 2023, Fortezza del Priamar, Savona, 2023; Je t'aime – art against violence against women, Palazzo Ducale – Sala Dogana, Genoa, 2024; Untitled, Galleria Quam, Scicli, 2024; Guarding the Image (two-person exhibition) Brodbeck Foundation, Catania, 2024; D'Annunzio and China, Il Vittoriale degli Italiani Foundation, 2024; Naturalmente Pianoforte, artistic residence “Traces in the Wind”, Pratovecchio Stia (AR), 2024; SMart, artistic residence, Pagliara (ME), 2024; Experimentum Crucis, international multimedia art exhibition, Ex Caserma Cassonello, Noto, 2024; If You Were Hiding from Love, solo exhibition, Salvatore Quasimodo Literary Park – Torre Saracena, Roccalumera (ME), 2024.
“Io cresco” solo exhibition, Archeoclub of Licodia Eubea (CT), 2024; Call to the Arts 2021-2024, group exhibition, Italian Cultural Institute of New York, 2024.