MARCO MEMEO

My painting is together a search and a dream of the urban landscape, essentially the same all over the world. The contemporary city is perceived as a set of places to pass through, in which determined functions are carried out. In this way the contemporary city has taken up similar characteristics all over the world. The city, made up of cold, modular and functional elements, filled with signals, is meant as a reassuring place, where getting lost is difficult and inhabitants play a well-defined role. My painting is an attempt to regain the skill to get lost and thus perceive the city from a more personal perspective. My painting is therefore not a mere representation of the urban landscape, but the result of a process leading to experience the city in a different way.

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2010 “Mens@Momus” curated by Ivan Fassio, Galleria Momus, Torino, Italy
2009 “Asti”, curated by Ivan Fassio, Palazzo della Provincia di Asti, Italy
“Oniriche di Donna”, curated by Marcello Coppo, Asti Nuovi Rumori, Asti, Italy
2008 “The Dragon”, Mens©, curated by Arthesis, Museo Arti e Mestieri di un Tempo, Cisterna d’Asti, Italy
2007 “Windows and Playlist”, Mens©, Spina 3, From Spoon to City, Torino, Italy
2006 “MENS”, Memeo Jins, Studio Silvia Pastore, Torino, Italy
2005 Galleria Ta Matete, curated by Walter Guadagnini, Roma e Bologna, Italy
2003 Galleria Alidoro, curated by White Project, Pesaro, Italy
“Marco Memeo, Giuseppe Restano”, Pianissimo Contemporary Art, curated by Mauro Bianchini, Milano, Italy
2002 Galleria Franco Marconi, curated by Mauro Bianchini, Cupra Marittima, Italy
1999 Maze Art Gallery, curated by Ivana Mulatero, Torino, Italy
1998 Reddocks, curated by Enzo Ruberto, Torino, Italy
1995 Green Club, curated by Marco Seveso, Torino, Italy
1994 Associazione Borgo Po, curated by Marco Seveso, Torino, Italy

Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 “La Città di…”, curated by Ivan Fassio, Blu Box Arte Contemporanea, Asti, Italy
2009 “Paratissima”, curated by Daniele Ratti, Borgata San Salvario, Torino, Italy
2008 “Il Corpo Nudo”, curated by Patrizia Fischer, Galleria Narciso, Torino, Italy
2007 “Allarmi 3”, curated by Cecilia Antolini, Ivan Quaroni, Alessandro Trabucco, Alberto Zanchetta, Caserma De Cristoforis, Como, Italy
2006 “Pubblicità Comparativa”, curated by Gabriella Serusi, Castello di Rivara, Italy
“Verismo Illusionista Pittorico”, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Calice Ligure, Italy
2005 “FunCity”, curated by Gabriella Serusi, Gas Gallery, Torino, Italy
“In Sede”, curated by Francesco Poli, Divisione Servizi Culturali, Torino, Italy
“Il Corridoio dell’Arte”, curated by Gabriella Serusi e Gabriele Fasolino, Palazzo della Povincia di Torino, Triennale di Milano, Italy
2004 “B.A.rt.2004”, Palazzo Marliani Cicogna, Busto Arsizio, Italy
“Daegu-Milan Fine Art Exhibition”, Daegu, Korea
“Il sentimento dell’Arte”, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni, Palazzo Isolani, Bologna, Italy
2003 “From Italy”, curated by Mauro e Renato Bianchini, Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Art Forum, Berlino, Germany – Trevi Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy – Lipanjepuntin, Trieste, Italy
“IV Premio Cairo Communication”, curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano, Italy
“Spazio Urbano”, curated by Gloria Gradassi, Palazzo Bice Piacentini, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy
“White Projet”, curated by Mauro Bianchini, Galleria Franco Marconi, MiArt, Milano, Italy
2002 “Premio Lissone”, curated by Flaminio Gualdoni, Civica Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Lissone, Italy
“Consorti, Memeo, Restano”, curated by Mauro Bianchini, galleria Franco Marconi, Cupra Marittima, Italy
“Visura Aperta”, curated by Davorka Peric, Centro
culturale Italiano, Momiano, Croatia
“By Pass”, curated by Stefano Verri, Palazzo Parissi, Monte Prandone, Italy
2001 “Godart”, curated by Renato Bianchini, Museolaboratorio arte contemporanea, Città Sant’Angelo, Pescara, Italy
“Rexistenz”, curated by Gianfranco Mossa, Ecomuseo, Colle del Lys, Italy
“Bianco e Azzurro”, curated by Patrizia Fischer, Fondazione italiana per la fotografia, Torino, Italy
2000 “Diciottoperventiquattro”, curated by Federica Rosso, 41artecontemporanea, Torino, Italy
“Quotidiana°°”, curated by Virginia Baradel,Guido Bartorelli,Stefania Schiavon, Galleria Civica Cavour, Padova, Italy
“Na.To.”, curated by Ombretta Agrò, GAle GAtes et al., New York
“She is not alone”, curated by Chiara Guidi, Galleria Maria Cilena, Milano, Italy
“Arte al muro”, curated by BIG, RAI, Torino, Italy
“Ways Out”, curated by Enzo Ruberto, Maze Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
1999 “Ways Out”, curated by Enzo Ruberto, Ausstellung Zeitgenossischer Kunst, Berlin, Germany – Buckenham Galleries, Southwold (Suffolk), Great Britan – Asociacion Cultural Cruce, Madrid, Spain
“Fuori Campo”, curated by Vittorio Urbani (Nuova Icona) for the 48a Biennale Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia, Italy
“Artissima 1999”, Maze Art Gallery, Torino, Italy
1998 “Particolari esposti”, curated by Nicola Pera, Nuovo Teatro delle Commedie, Livorno, Italy
“Primaparete”, Galleria San Fedele, Milano, Italy
“Prize Lions Bollate”, Bollate, Italy
“Nuovi Arrivi”, curated by Ivana Mulatero, Galleria di San Filippo, Torino, Italy
1997 “Biennale dei giovani artisti dell’Europa e del Mediterraneo”, Galleria Hyperion di Antonella Nicola, Torino, Italy
“Prize Felice Casorati a Pavarolo”, Pavarolo, Italy
“Patchwork 1”, Accademia Albertina, Torino, Italy
1996 “Terre d’Acqua”, Livorno Ferraris, Vicenza, Italy
1995 “Chiamata alle Arti ’95”, curated by Zenit, Arcate dei Murazzi, Torino, Italy
“P’Arte, segni per la valle”, Avigliana, Italy
1994 “Il Treno”, Galleria Recalcati, Torino, Italy
1993 “Libri d’Artista”, curated by Luce Delhove, Libreria Borgopo, Torino, Italy