About me

Guglielmo Maggini’s work stands at the border between installation and sculpture.

His art captures the transition from one world to the next: a world of colours, sometimes exuberant, a world of epiphanies, of forms that no longer contain something but which themselves become bearers of something forgotten.

Natural plastic materials like clay, and synthetics like rubber, resins, and more generally the world of plastic polymers, blend together in a sensitive exploration of the relationship between life and death, a journey between historical and personal memory.

Space is conceived as a plastic volume, imaginary but above all psychosomatic. The relationships between the viewer, the artwork, and the architecture become the cornerstone of Maggini's artistic process: on one hand, the physical space inevitably affects the sensory perception of the visitor; on the other, the artistic intervention brings about profound and decisive changes in the objective perception of the external world.

After graduating in Architecture, he moved to London, where he undertook a Master's in Visual Arts at the University of the Arts London – Camberwell College of Arts.

He currently lives in Rome and he is represented by Z2O Sara Zanin Gallery.

EXHIBITIONS (selection)

•When in Rome: beyond the periphery of the skin – itinerant group show curated by Adriana Polveroni, AlbumArte, Rome (November 2024 – January 2025) and at Adiacenze, Bologna (January – Februrary 2025)

• Stairing – permanent installation, International Museum of Ceramics, Faenza, IT (October 2024)

•Contrappunti – group show, z2o Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, IT

(March – April 2024)

• IMAGINA: 27° Biennale di Gubbio, Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, IT

(October 2023 – May 2024)

• 62° Biennale of Contemporary Ceramic, Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche, Faenza, IT

(July – November 2023 )

• Intermezzo (adagio ma con brio) – site-specific installation for Festival dei Due Mondi 66, Official Meeting Point, Spoleto, IT

( June – July 2023)

• Come il vento nelle case - solo show, z2o Sara Zanin Gallery, Rome, IT

(May – June 2023)

• ArteCircolare – group show curated by Ludovico Pratesi, MAXXI, Rome, IT (January – Februrary 2023)

• The Big Burnout – HYPERMAREMMA 2022, Porta Medina, Orbetello,

(July – September 2022)

• MATERIA NOVA – group show curated by Massimo Mininni, Galleria d’Arte Moderna - GAM , Rome, IT

(March 2022)

• IOSANSEBASTIANO – solo show / artist book presentation at pinobi

Rome, IT

(December 2020 – February 2021)

• La Comunità Inoperosa – Contemporanea 2021, group show curated by Giuseppe Armogida, Palazzo Ducale, Tagliacozzo, IT

(July – September 2021)

• TROPICALDA - site-specific installation at Una Vetrina, Operativa Arte Contemporanea, Rome, IT

(July – September 2021)

• Qualquadra non cosa- duo-show with Delfina Scarpa, Litografia Bulla, Rome, IT

(December 2020– January 2021)

• Transorganico - solo show, Galleria Sinopia, Rome, IT

(June – September 2018)

• MA Designer Maker – Degree Show at Camberwell College of Arts, London

(July 2017)

• Make Do and Make Camberwell Space, London, UK

(July 2016)

• OPEN at Peckham Platform Gallery; London, UK

(December 2015 – January 2016)

AWARDS

• Finalist 62° Premio Faenza- 2023

• Finalist 14° Combat Prize - 2023

• Finalist Exibart prize 2021

EDUCATION

MA Visual Arts: Designer Maker; First Class with Honours - University of the Arts London –Camberwell College of Arts, UK

(2015-2017)

BA Architecture and Interior Design, First Class with Honours - Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, IT

(2010-2014)

Scuola D’Arte Educatrice Museum, ceramic classes, Rome, IT

(2008-2013)