Carlo Rizzetti Biography
Born in 1969 in Brussels - Belgium, he is an exponent of Cracking Art. The international Cracking Art group was born on 30 May 1993 with the signing of the "end of the millennium" manifesto, a manifesto which establishes its philosophy and intentions. Ideologist and founder of the movement is Omar Ronda (1947 – Biella / Italy) and signatories of the document: William Sweetlowe (1948 – Ostend / Belgium), Renzo Nucara (1955 – Crema / Italy), Marco Veronese (1962 – Biella / Italy), Alex Angi (1965 – Cannes / France ), Carlo Rizzetti (1969 Brussels / Belgium ), Kicco (1969 Biella / Italy). Since the first "EPOCALE" exhibition in Milan in 1993, curated by Tommaso Trini and Luca Beatrice, the group's intention to radically change the history of art through a strong social and environmental commitment and the revolutionary and innovative use of different plastic materials and evocative of an increasingly close relationship between natural life and artificial reality. Hundreds of exhibitions and events followed around the world which gave the group international fame, we mention a few: 1994 Brunelleschi Cloister, Santa Maria degli Angeli (Florence). - SOS Crackingmaredies, Mole Vanvitelliana (Ancona). - 1996 A thousand dolphins in Milan, Piazza del Duomo, Arengario di Palazzo Reale, Councilor for Culture Philippe Daverio. - 1998 Pop, Graffiti, Cracking Art, La Posteria (Milan) and Galleria Pananti (Florence). - 1999 Andy Warhol and Cracking Art, Galleria Pananti (Florence). - 2000 Art, currents, artists and society from the 18th century to the present day, textbook adopted by the Italian institutional pedagogical system, edited by Piero Adorno and Adriana Mastrangelo. - 2001 Official invitation and participation in the 49th International Art Biennale of Venice, curator Harald Szeemann, catalogs edited by Lucrezia De Domizio Durini, Maurizio Sciaccaluga and Alessandro Riva - City of Arezzo for the Twin Tower Found by Rudolph Giuliani, American Embassy in Italy. - All the hatred in the world, Palazzo Reale (Milan) curated by Alessandro Riva. - City of Vilnius, organized by the Italian Cultural Institute (Lithuania). - 2002 inauguration of the Cracking Art Study and Documentation Center (Biella). - Money and Values (Bienne – Switzerland) edited by Harald Szeemann. - 2003 Beaufort – Belgian Art Triennial, curated by Willy Van den Bussche, Klaus Bussmann, Rudi Fuchs, Jean-Hubert Martin. - Artist's Plastic, National Museum of Science and Technology (Milan) curated by Tommaso Trini. - Guy Pieters Gallery, curated by Willy Van den Bussche. - 2004 Amazing art from Dadà to Cracking Art. Edizioni Mazzotta, texts by Philippe Daverio. - 2005 Sul filo della lana, (Biella) edited by Philippe Daverio. - Museum of Santa Apollonia (Venice) on the occasion of the 51st Venice Biennale, Mazzotta catalog edited by Martina Corgnati and Elena Forin – Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea Palazzo Collicola (Spoleto) edited by Martina Corgnati – Fondazione delle Stelline (Milan ) edited by Martina Corgnati. 2006 Lousieville Kentucky Museum of Modern Art - Center d'Art Villa Tamariss, Les Nouveaux Pop - Jean-Luc Chlumeau - La Sien sur Mer (Tolon) - Beaufort 2006, Ufo Gallery (Ostend), Academy of Fine Arts and Santo Gallery Ficarra (Florence) - Cracking Art the culture that wasn't there - City of Terni - Cracking Art revolution - City of Treviso - 2007 Exhibition and seven monographs curated by Elena Forin, Tornabuoni Arte (Florence) - SOMA Seoul Art Museum - Cloister by Brunelleschi (Rome) There are dozens of books and catalogs published by the main Italian publishers and thousands of critical texts and articles published throughout the world.
