Roberto Floreani

Born in Venice in 1956. Graduated from the University of Padua, he began exhibiting in 1985. The following year he won the first prize at the Biennale triveneta with a work for the Civic Museums and one for the Museum of Ca 'Pesaro. Starting from the early 90s, the artist's research acquires its current connotation of an ideal point of contact between a strongly European culture and a body philosophy linked to the East.

Since the early years he has exhibited in Italy and abroad. In 1992 one of his works was acquired by the Pavilion of Contemporary Art (PAC) in Milan and destined for the Civic Collections of Palazzo Reale in Milan. In 1994 the project La Casa e il Tempo (in collaboration with the Credito Valtellinese Gallery) was presented at the Civic Museums of Como, Ravenna and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb. In 1997 the anthological exhibition at the Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso dates back to 1999 and in 1999 the anthological exhibition in Vicenza. Subsequent personal exhibitions follow in public and private places on national territory. In 2005 he was invited to participate in the XIV Quadrennial in Rome.

In 2009 he took part in the 53rd edition of the Venice Biennale with a solo exhibition at the Italian Pavilion and with the Aurora Western project where he reiterated the centrality of the work as the bearer of a message of a spiritual nature. The realization of exhibition projects and performances during the last fifteen and the collective exhibitions in which he took part throughout the peninsula was also very intense.

On the occasion of the centenary of Futurism, he conceived the Manifesto project for a personal exhibition in 2008 and in 2009 he created the fireworks show TracciantiVetteTricolori, he presented the Futurist-designer report for the 40th anniversary of AIPI (Vicenza, Teatro Olimpico) and realized the Arte-vita project futurista (Padova) and the Futurist Grand Evening in fallow deer gloves (Padova, Teatro Stabile Verdi). He also published the essay Futurismo Antineutrale (Silvana Editoriale, 2010) and the post-faction of the volume dedicated to the futurist sculptor Quirino de Giorgio (2010). He lives and works in Vicenza.