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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).

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2021
Ballpoint pen on paper
100 × 140 cm / 39 3/8 × 55 1/8 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2021
Ballpoint pen on paper
184 × 130.5 × 5.5 cm / 72 1/5 × 51 3/8 × 2 1/6 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2019
Ballpoint pen on paper
125 × 180 × 5.5 cm / 49 1/3 × 70 5/6 × 2 1/6 inches con cornice / with frame

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2018
Wax and metal
115 × 120 × 42 cm

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2018
Wax and metal
125 × 110 × 45 cm / 49 1/4 × 43 1/3 × 17 3/4 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2017
Ballpoint pen on paper
100 × 140 cm / 39 3/8 × 55 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2016
Glass
86 × 80 × 30 cm / 33 5/6 × 31 1/2 × 11 4/5 inches

Diego Perrone

TBT, 2016
Glass
33 × 33 × 16.5 cm / 13 × 13 × 6 1/2 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2016
Glass
62 × 78 × 28 cm / 24 2/5 × 30 3/4 × 11 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2015
Glass
75 × 85 × 20 cm / 29 3/4 × 33 1/2 × 7 7/8 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2013
Resin and iron
198 × 65 × 173 cm / 77 61/64 × 25 19/32 × 68 7/64 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2012
Glass
20 × 72 × 50 cm / 7 7/8 × 28 11/32 × 19 11/16 inches

Diego Perrone

PENDIO PIOVOSO FRUSTA LA LINGUA, 2010
Nylon bristles, fibreglass, iron, acrylic finish
200 × 260 × 180 cm / 79 × 102 × 71 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2009
Graphite, acrylic resin, iron
130 × 110 × 270 cm / 51 3/16 × 43 5/16 × 106 19/64 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2009
Forex UV print, biro, iron
145 × 145 × 70 cm / 57 3/32 × 57 3/32 × 27 9/16 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2009
Biro on photographic print
97 × 104 cm / 38 3/16 × 40 15/16 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2009
Aluminium, iron
247 × 230 × 220 cm / 97 1/4 × 90 35/64 × 86 39/64 inches

Diego Perrone

SENZA TITOLO, 2009
Biro on photographic print
105 × 105 cm / 41 11/32 × 41 11/32 inches

Diego Perrone

LA FUSIONE DELLA CAMPANA, 2007
Epoxy resin, iron, foam
500 × 800 × 350 cm / 197 × 315 × 137 51/64 inches

Diego Perrone

I PENSATORI DI BUCHI, 2002
Lambda print mounted on aluminium
45 × 59.17 cm / 18 × 23 inches

Diego Perrone

I PENSATORI DI BUCHI, 2002
Lambda print mounted on aluminium
60 × 60 cm / 23 5/8 × 23 5/8 inches