Growing up between the 80s and 90s, Michele Gabriele formalizes a wide range of elements that appear to be generated from childhood memories and are characterized by post-digital hyper-materialism.
Shaped and painted sculptural pieces are often placed alongside found objects and existing components. Paintings of enormous sizes with layers of different materials and methods completely merge, suggesting a certain ambiguity. The self-generated forms look upon the ruins of the dream of a sustainable future, which we regard with regret and nostalgia. Michele Gabriele's work explores the distance between the viewer and the artwork in the constant search for a balance between representation and materiality, space and time, outdated past, and dystopian future. This offers the viewer the opportunity to experience and develop a critical and reciprocal relationship with the artwork itself, with each other, and with the world.
The artist studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, Italy, and at Paris 8 University in France, and was a guest lecturer at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Dresden in Germany in 2021. Among his international solo exhibitions are the ASHES/ASHES Gallery during the MiArt Show in Milan, Italy (2024), MeetFactory in Prague, Czech Republic (2023), and the Kunsthalle Ost in Leipzig, Germany.
Michele Gabriele lives and works in Milan, Italy.