Paolo Canevari | Self-Portrait Autoritratto

Italian contemporary artist Paolo Canevari is best known for transforming everyday materials and icons into large scale sculptures that confront his audience with stark, political and philosophical commentary. Throughout his career, Canevari has worked in a variety of media, most notably tyres and inner tubes, painting, drawing, performance, animation and film.

The provocative nature of the artists’ works, his connections to cutting edge fashion (Wearable Art Projects), and his active role within the art scene in New York, where he lived and worked for many years, have kept Canevari in the spotlight of both American and Italian media. Cardi Gallery is proud to present the first major solo show of Canevari’s work in the UK, an extensive survey exploring thirty years of the artist’s practice, the culmination of a decades-long collaboration with the gallery. A museum-scale exhibition occupying four floors at Cardi London in Mayfair, ‘Self-portrait / Autoritratto’ brings together over 30 works including sculptures, drawings and installation that range from the artist’s notorious 1990s rubber sculptures through to his most recent ongoing series ‘Monuments of the Memory: Landscape’ and ‘Constellations’. Many of the exhibits are shown here for the first time.

Artists / Speakers: Paolo Canevari

Category: Arts | Visual Arts

Date and Time: Sunday February 21, 2021 at 10:00 am to Saturday April 17, 2021 at 6:00 pm

Venue details: Cardi Gallery, 22 Grafton Street, Mayfair, London, W1S 4EX, United Kingdom