Ciacciofera, Michele (1969-....)

Michele CIACCIOFERA is a visual artist based in Paris. He was born in Nuoro (Sardinia) grew up in Palermo where he later graduated in Political Science. He gained his artistic formation in the studio of Giovanni Antonio Sulas, a Sardinian painter and architect. From 1990 until 2012 he lived and worked in the island of Ortigia (Siracusa). At present, he is reflecting on themes that deal with the human condition; torture and imprisonment, melancholy; and in parallel, he considers environmental and political themes. He is a member of a work-group of architects and engineers that wins a competition organised by the Port Authorities of Palermo for an ‘artistic-architectural project to reuse two loading cranes in the harbour of Palermo as a symbolic place for the future of harbour-city interaction’. Among his last exhibitions and awards : group show “Endless Summer” - White Box - New York (2012); solo show “mining memories” - Light of Creativity - Miami Beach (2011), group show “carta delle circostanze - frontiere liquide” - Teatro Verga Ortigia - Siracusa, solo exhibition “no man’s land” - Museo Civico Noto (2011), 54ma Biennale di Venezia - Padiglione Italia Corderie dell’Arsenale - Venezia; Green Vision Prize for 2011 - teatro Ambra Jovinelli Roma; solo exhibition “viaggio in Sicilia - omaggio a J.W. Goethe “ - St. John's University SantaFe NM (US); "Silence!" solo exhibition Italian Cultural Institut New York (US).