{"id":4837,"date":"2016-08-06T21:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-07T01:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=4837"},"modified":"2018-05-25T03:18:27","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T07:18:27","slug":"mimmo-catania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/mimmo-catania\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimmo Catania"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_3917\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4837-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/mimmo.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/mimmo.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/mimmo.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_4838\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4838\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4838 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/j.ostarhild.jpg?resize=300%2C213&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"j-ostarhild\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/j.ostarhild.jpg?resize=300%2C213&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/j.ostarhild.jpg?resize=768%2C546&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/j.ostarhild.jpg?resize=1024%2C728&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/j.ostarhild.jpg?resize=624%2C443&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/j.ostarhild.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/j.ostarhild.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4838\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artist&#8217;s portrait photo: Jurgen Ostarhild, Berlin, 2013<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mimmocatania.com\/\">Mimmo Catania<\/a> is an Italian-born artist, living in Berlin since 1984. He studied painting at Accademia di Belle Arti Urbino (1980-84).<\/p>\n<p>He has been working in the last three decades on a synthesis of Informal art (eighties), Environmental strategies (ninenties) and since the beginning of the 2000s introducing the figure to form what he denominates \u2018Meta-Realistic paintings\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent series \u2018Burning Cars\u2019 has a particular story behind. The first interest in this issue dates back more than a decade ago. The artist has already started to work on it but something made him put it aside. When he recently moved to a new studio (2013), these first drafts popped up again.<\/p>\n<p>It is the aesthetical fascination that takes him in \u2018Burning Cars\u2019: the fire with its resistance to technology, resulting always winner and disappearing after the attack. Fire is one of the elementary experiences of mankind. It has been accompanying us from the very beginning up to our days. It is still one of the mightiest powers, able to provoke outbreaks of preconscious sediments, buried fears, putting at risk our unstable construction of social and individual stability.<\/p>\n<p>The artist has been the recipient of various awards including a grant from the Berlin Senate for New York (1995) and for Israel (1996) as well as the Katalogf\u00f6rderung (2012); a residency at the Casa di Goethe, Rome, supported by the Daimler-Chrysler Foundation (1998); Pollock-Krasner-Foundation, New York ( 2005 and 2016), Joan-Mitchell Foundation for Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe. In 2008 he had been working for one month in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>His\u00a0 work has been exhibited extensively in Europe, North America and Asia. His major exhibitions in museums and art centers include: Galleria Comunale Arte Moderna, Bologna (1982); Museum Waterland, Purmerend (1985); Kunst-Werke, Berlin (1992); Artists\u2019 Museum, Lodz (1993); Br\u00fcder Grimm Museum, Kassel (1993); Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (1994); GAK, Bremen (1997); Casa di Goethe Museum, Rome (1999); Sharjah Arts Museum, Sharjah (2000); 49. Biennale di Venezia, Venice (2001 and 2013); Exit Art, New York (2002);\u00a0 Pinacoteca di Bari, Bari (2003); Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka (2003); RSUH Museum Center, Moscow (2006); Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe (2007); Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (2008); The Pickled Art Centre, Beijing (2008); Tallina Kunstihoone, Tallinn (2009); Stadtgalerie Mannheim, Mannheim (2012); Torrance Art Museum, Torrance (2015); Galleria Civica d\u2019Arte Contemporanea, Montevergini, Siracusa (2016); Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, New York (2016)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4839\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4839\" style=\"width: 625px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4839 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_Photo_E_Tchernow_.jpg?resize=625%2C437&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_photo_e_tchernow_\" width=\"625\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_Photo_E_Tchernow_.jpg?resize=1024%2C716&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_Photo_E_Tchernow_.jpg?resize=300%2C210&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_Photo_E_Tchernow_.jpg?resize=768%2C537&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_Photo_E_Tchernow_.jpg?resize=624%2C436&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_Photo_E_Tchernow_.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Overturn_2015_oil_on_canvas_140_200_cm_Photo_E_Tchernow_.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4839\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Overturn, 2015, oil on canvas, 140&#215;200 cm. Photo credit: Eric Tschernow, Berlin. Courtesy: Irena Kos Artecontemporanea, Pietrasanta, Italy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4840\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4840\" style=\"width: 637px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4840 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Clot_on-Wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_GCAC-Siracusa_Photo_M._Catania.jpg?resize=637%2C1066&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"clot_on-wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_gcac-siracusa_photo_m-_catania\" width=\"637\" height=\"1066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Clot_on-Wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_GCAC-Siracusa_Photo_M._Catania.jpg?resize=612%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 612w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Clot_on-Wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_GCAC-Siracusa_Photo_M._Catania.jpg?resize=179%2C300&amp;ssl=1 179w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Clot_on-Wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_GCAC-Siracusa_Photo_M._Catania.jpg?resize=768%2C1284&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Clot_on-Wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_GCAC-Siracusa_Photo_M._Catania.jpg?resize=624%2C1043&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Clot_on-Wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_GCAC-Siracusa_Photo_M._Catania.jpg?w=1952&amp;ssl=1 1952w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Clot_on-Wrack_2015_oil_on_canvas_160_140_cm_GCAC-Siracusa_Photo_M._Catania.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4840\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Clot on Wrack, 2015, oil on canvas, 160&#215;140 cm. Galleria Civica d&#8217;Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa, Italy, 2016. Photo courtesy: Mimmo Catania<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/mimmo.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listMimmo Catania is an Italian-born artist, living in Berlin since 1984. He studied painting at Accademia di Belle Arti Urbino (1980-84). 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