Alberto Garutti
Alberto Garutti, photo by Delfino Sisto Legnani
Alberto Garutti (Galbiate, Italy, 1948) is a Milan based artist and influential professor at the Faculty of Design and the Arts at the IUAV in Venice. He used to teach at the Academy of Brera in Milan till 2013. His research, based on open dialogue between art, public and urban space, gave him the opportunity to create artworks for cities and museums all over the world. The founding principles of his artistic program can be seen as sophisticated artistic reaction to the context of reality, with which the artist raises the issue of necessary relationships between language, experience and the surrounding ambient. In his works are apply participative strategies on different levels, to engage wide spectrum of the audience, poetically and humorously addressing his interventions to climate of the socio – cultural space hosting his projects. Most of them, despite of their physical presence, are in their substance very ephemeral, based on the subtle moment of perception.
He took part to major international events and institutions such as the Venice Biennale 1990, Istanbul Biennial 2001, Arte all’Arte 2000 and 2005, Memory Marathon at Serpentine Gallery in London in 2012. In 2008 Garutti took part in the exhibition ITALICS, Arte italiana fra tradizione e rivoluzione 1968-2008 held at Palazzo Grassi in Venice, and later at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. Lately he’s taken part to the exhibition The Street curated by Hou Hanru, at MAXXI Museum in Rome; he’s producing three big works near Caorle (Italy), as he won an International Art Contest announced by Assicurazioni Generali – Genagricola S.p.A., and also creating a permanent work for the new MAXXI Museum in L’Aquila (Italy). In coordination with his solo exhibition at PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan in 2012, curated by Paola Nicolin and Hans Ulrich Obrist, the book Alberto Garutti, didascalia/caption was published.