CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI
HALL 2.0
F16
(1943, Luzzara)
Untitled, 2008
Smoke and sooth on board
cm.h. 150 x 115
Provenance: the artist
Galleria Christian Stein
At the core of Claudio Parmiggiani's work are the Delocazioni: installations produced using fire, smoke and soot to leave ghostly imprints of objects — books, bottles, musical instruments, human silhouettes — on walls and surfaces. These shadow-sculptures constitute a profound poetic inquiry into absence, memory, and the passage of time.
Claudio Parmiggiani was born in Luzzara in 1943 and lives and works in Parma. One of the most significant Italian artists of his generation, his practice was shaped in his formative years by close encounters with Giorgio Morandi and by the conceptual legacy of Marcel Duchamp. Working in the wake of the postwar crisis of traditional art, he forged a singular and deeply meditative language — at once intimate and universal — that has made him a central reference point in contemporary art.
His work is held in the most prestigious collections worldwide, including: Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv; Museo de Bellas Artes, Havana; National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavík; MAMCO, Geneva; Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris; François Pinault Foundation, Venice.