Diego Perrone

Diego Perrone was born in Asti in 1970. He lives and works between Milan and Asti.
Diego Perrone’s universal vision and poetics are deeply rooted in the particular mysterious allure of provincial and suburban lives. Rural life and daunting, foggy landscapes where, in between the hills, are small brutalist villas, the artist’s epicentre of all neurosis. Perrone challenges these psychotic, but apparently flawless, existences by tiptoeing in and out of a surreal daze inhabited by agricultural machinery, fish, and uncanny shapes.

His solo shows include: Pendio piovoso frusta la lingua, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Rome (2022); La notte all’indietro pesa, National Roman Museum, Palazzo Massimo, Rome (2019); War Games, curated by Francesco Garutti, Villa del Principe - Palazzo di Andrea Doria, Genoa (2017); Margini, Oratorio di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Vigoleno (2017); Void Cinema Congress Death, MASSIMODECARLO, London (2014); Il Servo Astuto, Museion, Bolzano (2013); La mamma di Boccioni in ambulanza e la fusione della campana, CAPC Musèe d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2007); Totò nudo e la fusione della campana, curated by Francesco Bonami, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2005).

His group exhibitions include, among many: Espressioni Con Frazioni, Castello Di Rivoli Museum, Turin (2022); Come Prima, Meglio Di Prima, MASSIMODECARLO, Milan (2020); Take Me (I’m Yours), curated by Christian Boltanski, Hans Ulrich Obrist and ChiaraParisi, Villa Medici, Rome (2018); Ennesima. Una mostra di sette mostre sull’arte italiana, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis ,Triennale di Milano, Milan (2015); Nathalie Djurberg & Diego Perrone, Whitechapel Gallery, London (2008); After Nature, New Museum, New York (2008); The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2007); Perspectif cinema 2003-2004, screenings, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2004); Animations, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (2001).

Diego Perrone’s work has been included in the 53rd Biennale di Venezia, a cura di Massimiliano Gioni - Il Palazzo Enciclopedico, Venice (2013).