Lives and works in Riccione, Ravenna, and Milan.
Caught in an attitude between the obscene and the provocative, Pivi’s characters evoke a variety of inspirational models such as an ideal and deified concept of beauty and religiously-shaped bodies that refer to the gods without preventing more contemporary references such as inflatable dolls and crash test dummies, giving a new look to marble’s cold nature and bringing back the attention to the human body and the values associated with it such as monumentality, dynamism, twisting and movement .
Ranging from current events to topics considered cornerstones of existential anguish, Pivi investigates new possible poetic and expressive patterns using beauty as a restoring and comforting force.
Extended Biography
THE PROJECT AT GLUCK50
Installation view at Gluck50, 2014
Public installation, 2014
Public installation, 2014
Installation view at Gluck50, 2014
Installation view at Gluck50, 2014
Installation view at Gluck50, 2014
Installation view at Gluck50, 2014
Leonardo Pivi has specifically designed for the exhibition space during his residence in 2013.
For the occasion Pivi exhibited a series of life-size marble statues sculpted and carved from plaster models, with the aim to retrieve formal classical models, where bizarre and personal typologies coexist and come to life showing a strong spatial vitality The artist’s intervention aided and abetted by his studies on light has the ambition to update the concept of classical and neo-classical beauty of the human body in the third millennium.