© Paola Arpone
(B. Palermo 1968)
Sculptor. lives and works in Milan, where he started his artistic activity. For the artist, the street is a source of inspiration. His polychrome terracotta creatures arise from a direct analysis of the world of youth, imposing an innovative image of sculpture that is in direct contact with everyday life, through works that reveal the search for an identity in the face of a system dominated by conformism and ephemeral fashions.
He held his first solo exhibitions in Turin, Milan and Boston (USA). He has also participated in several group exhibitions at museums and public institutions: ‘Icastica’ at the Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna in Bologna; “Collezionismo a Torino” at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art; “Sui Generis” at the PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea in Milan; “Italian Factory – La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana” among the collateral events at the 50th Venice Biennale; Strasbourg, at the Palace of Parliament; European Parliament in Strasbourg; In collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, he took part in the group shows ‘Street Art, Sweet Art’ at the PAC in Milan; ‘Art and Homosexuality’ at the Palazzo della Ragione in Milan; At the Palazzina Reale in Florence. In the retrospective in homage to gallery owner Guido Carbone ‘This world is fantastic’, at Palazzo Bricherasio in Torino.in conjunction with the Artissima fair and participates in the auction with Christie’s ‘Artists for Ariadne’. He was invited to exhibit at the exhibition dedicated to Guido Crepax at Palazzo Reale, Milan; he was invited to the Triennial Exhibition of Visual Arts, Palazzo Velli, Rome.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024/25 Ombre di Vita, (Shadows of Life), Galleria Laboratorio 41, Macerata
2021/22 Fetish Fashion, Gallery Vik Milano, Milan
2011 In Her Shoes, Gallery Francesco Zanuso, Milan
2010 Les Jeux Sont Femmes, Gallery San Lorenzo, Milan
2004/05 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery il Castello, Trento
2003 Paolo Cassarà, Galleria ArtAndArts,Turin
2002/2003 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery Marella Arte Contemporanea, Spazio Consolo, Milan
1998/99 Tre Modi di Essere Donna (Three Ways of Being a Woman), Gallery In Arco, Turin
1998 Sembianze Corporee (Bodily Likenesses), Gallery Manuela Nanni, Milan
1996 People, Gallery d’Arte Moderna il Castello, Trento
1995 Coquetel 26, Milan
1995 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery Sergio Tossi, Prato, Florence
1995 People, Gallery Ruggerini & Zonca, Milan
1994 Paolo Cassarà, Speedway Gallery, Boston USA
1993 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery Guido Carbone, Turin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Save the Date Carousel – a rotate group shows, Fabbrica Eos, Milan
2024 Pray for Pride, Gallery, Gli Eroici Furori, Milan
2024 Dobre Novice, Kamnik, Slovenia
2021 New World Order, Gallery Venice Faktory, Venice
2019 Superfashion, Gallery Vik, Milan
2018 The Greatest Things, Kspaces, Street del pascolo 37, Turin
2017 Aeterna, Triennale di arti visive a Roma, Palazzo Velli, Rome
2015 Hands Up!, Sotheby’s, Spazio Bigli, Milan
2014 Keith Haring & Jean Michel Basquiat & Pop-Up Revolution, MdM Museum, Porto Cervo, Italy
2014 Superheroes, Gestalt Gallery Galleria Pack, Pietra Santa, Italy
2014 Superheroes,Villa Bertelli, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
2014 POP-UP Revolution, Caserma XXIV May, Milan
2013 Guido Crepax Ritratto di un artista, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2013 Shop..Les Jeux d’Amour, Ostrakon Gallery, Milan
2013 Salome & Nipposugestioni, Spazio A.M.I.C.I.,Milan
2012 Dresscode, Showroom Massimo Crivelli, Milan
2012 Myra Galleries, Miami USA
2012 Poker, My Own Gallery, Superstudio Più, Milan
2010 Please Me Fashion – Fluttuazioni fra Arte e Moda (Fluctuations Between Art and Fashion), Palazzo Ducale, Sabbioneta, Italy
2010 Terzo Rinascimento (Third Renaissance), Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
2008 Rumors, Ex Arsenale Borgo Dora, Turin, concurrent with the Artissima Fair
2008 Questo Mondo è Fantastico. Omaggio al gallerista Guido Carbone (This World is Fantastic. Homage to gallery owner Guido Carbone), Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin
2008 Arte e Omosessualità – Da Von Gloeden a Pierre et Giles (Art and Homosexuality – from Von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles), Palazzina Reale di Santa Maria
Novella, Florence
2007 La Nuova Figurazione Italiana – To Be Continued… (The New Italian Figuration…) Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate, Milan
2007 Nuovi Pittori della Realtà (New Reality Painters) – PAC, Milan
2007 Nuovi Pittori della Realtà (New Reality Painters), Premio Michetti Award, Francavilla Al Mare, Italy
2007 Arte e Omosessualità – Vade Retro (Art and Homosexuality – Vade Retro), Palazzo della Ragione, Milan
2007 Curve Pericolose (Dangerous Curves), Casello Ovest di Porta Venezia, Milan
2007 Street Art Sweet Art – Bazaar Pop-Up, PAC, Milan
2004 Subway 3004, in collaboration with the City of Milan
2004 Segno e Materia (Mark and Mater) – Municipality of Senato, Villa San Carlo Borromeo, Senato, Milan
2004 Normali Meraviglie (Ordinary Wonders), Magazzini del Cotone, Porto Antico, Genoa
2003 Musica per Organi Caldi (Music for Hot Organs) – 3gg Arte Contemporanea, Udine
2003 La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana (The New Italian Art Scene] – Italian Factory, European Parliament, Strasbourg
2003 La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana (The New Italian Art Scene) – Italian Factory, Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, collateral event, 50th International Art
Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2003 Aria di Primavera: Condividere e Aiutare (Spring in the Air: Sharing and Helping) – Art exhibition, Sacile, Pordenone, Italy
2003 Cioccolatarts (Chocolatarts), Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
2002 Galleria Battaglia, Milan
2002 Sculturama, Galleria Annovi, Sassuolo, Modena
2002 Nuova Scultura Italiana (New Italian Sculpture), Il Polittico, Rome
2002 Artisti di Torino per Mamre (Artists of Turin for the Charity Mamre) – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,Turin
2001Paradiso Perduto (Paradise Lost), Galleria La Giarina, Verona
2001La Linea Dolce della Nuova Figurazione (The Gentle Line of the New Figuration) – Galleria Annovi, Sassuolo, Modena
2001 Tredici artisti a confronto (Thirteen Artists Compared), Galleria Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantua
2000 Sui Generis: La Ridefinizione del Genere nella Nuova Arte Italiana (Sui generis: The Redefinition of Gender in New Italian Art) PAC, Milan
2000 Trapassato Futuro (Future History), Cartiere Vannucci, Milan.
2000 Patty Pravo Come un Angelo da Collezione (Patty Pravo as a Collectible Angel), Villa Caruso, Lastra Signa, Florence
1999/98 Home Sweet Home – Arti Assortite, Turin
1998 Mitovelocità (Speed-myth), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Republic of San Marino.
1998 Cronache Vere (True Chronicles) – Spazio Consolo, Milan.
1998 Il Nuovo Ritratto in Italia (The New Portrait in Italy) – Spazio Consolo, Milan
1997 Collezionismo Permanente (Permanently Collecting) – Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa
1996 Francia Italia Presenze in Quota (France Italy Presences at Altitude), Sestriere, Turin
1996 Collezionismo A Torino (Collecting in Turin), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
1996 Caleidoscopio (Kaleidoscope), Galleria Ruggerini & Zonca, Milan.
1996 Tix – Trance Italy Xpress – Centro Art’s Events, Benevento, Italy.
1996 Arte Fuori Luogo (Art Out of Place), Carpi, Modena.
1996 Il Rock è Duro 3 (Rock Is Hard 3), Autorimessa Boetti Matteo Car Park, Rome
1995 Il Fantastico nella Giovane Arte Italiana (Fantasy in Young Italian Art), Syracuse
1994 Il Rock è Duro 2 (Rock Is Hard 2) – Galleria Sergio Tossi, Prato
1994 Extra Small, Gallery Guido Carbone, Turin
1994 Icastica (Representative Art) Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
1994/95 Anteprima ’95 (Preview ’95), Galleria il Castello, Trento
1993 Il Rock è Duro (Rock Is Hard), Centro Culturale S. Andrea, Savona.
1993 Art is Life, Museo dell’Automobile, Turin
1992 Imprimatur, ex Church of San Carpoforo, Milan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Segno, 10 febbraio 2025, text by Barbara Caterbetti, Ombre di vita, (Shadows of Life) curated by Gabriele Perretta – exhibit, Giorgio Lupatelli, Paolo Cassarà e Moreno Ovani.
Segno n°. 299, January/February 2025, curated by Gabriele Perretta, Trame Silenziose – Un Dialogo tra Silenzio, Materia e Trasformazione (Silent textures – A Dialogue Between Silence, Matter and Transformation).
Text by Gabriele Perretta, Ombre di vita. Non è Solo una Questione di Reale, (Shadows of Life. It Is Not Just a Question of Reality) 2024
Text by Giuditta Elettra, Fetish Fashion, Gallery Vik Milan, January 2022
Text by Chiara Canali, Donne sull’orlo di una crisi d’influencer, (Women on the brink of an influencer crisis), Arte IN, n°. 7, march 2022
Art Post Pinterest, May 2017
Text by Irene Tireno, L’ultima disperata speranza artistica per questa umanità narcotizzata (The last desperate artistic hope for this narcotized humanity), 8 April 2017
Rai News 24, Focus 24, Exhibiton Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma, 2 April 2017
Text by Chiara Capomaggi, That’s All Trends, Aeterna, Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma 24 March 2017
Aeterna, Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma, Eliconie 24 March 2017
Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma, Roma, Exibart, 24 March 2017
Text by Andrea Agrifoglio, La Triennale Aeterna, Gazzetta regionale Lazio, 27 February 2017
Text by Gianni Dunil, Vittorio Sgarbi, Aeterna, Esposizione Triennale di arti visive a
Roma, catalogue Start Edizioni 2017
Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva e da Elettronics Art Cafe, Artribune – Keith Haring & Jean Michel Basquiat & Pop Up Revolution, MDM Museum, Porto Cervo 2014
Text by Chiara Campo, Scarpe-scultura firmate Cassara’(Shoes-sculpture signed Cassarà), il Giornale, 17 February 2014
Text by Simone Mosca,Valentina e i suoi fratelli Jekull e Orlando Furioso (Valentina and her brothers Jekull and Orlando Furioso) La Repubblica 20 June
Guido Crepax, Portrait of an Artist, Palazzo Reale, catalogue Italian edition, French English, Nuages 2013
Text by Giovanna Calvenzi, La donna e un<Poker>di sguardi, Corriere della sera 19 January 2012
Glamour n°.217, March 2010
Text by Bria, espoarte, n°. 64 April-May 2010
Curated by Chiara Canali, Cariatidi del terzo millennio, (Caryatids of the third millennium), Milan, February-March 2010
Made 05, December – January 2008
Various authors, Rumors, Italian Factory catalogue 2008
Curated by Luca Beatrice, Questo mondo è fantastico. Omaggio al gallerista Guido Carbone (This world is fantastic. Homage to gallery owner Guido Carbone)
Electa catalogue, 2008
RAI 1, Vade Retro – Porta a Porta, December 2007
Curated by Chiara Canali, La Nuova Figurazione Italiana – To Be Continued… (The new Italian figuration…)
Text by Silvana Editore catalogue 2007
Blue, Vade Retro Censura (Censure), September 2007
Cronaca Vera n°. 1821, 1 August 2007
Tele Lombardia, Vade Retro, 19 July 2007
La Repubblica, Vade Retro, ritorno a Milan (return to Milan) (Milan pages)
La Repubblica, Saturday 28 July 2007
Metro, Wednesday 25 July 2007
La Repubblica, Monday 16 July 2007
La Repubblica, Sunday 15 July 2007
Libero, Sunday 15 July 2007
Il Giornale, Sunday 15 July 2007
Text by Armando Stella, Cassarà: basta discriminazioni, la mia pietà non è blasfema (Cassarà: stop the discrimination, my Pietà is not blasphemous). Corriere della Sera, Sunday 15 July 2007
Text by G.Battista Anastasio, Il Giorno, Sunday 15 July 2007
Il Giornale, Saturday 14 July 2007
Il Giorno, Saturday 14 July 2007
Text by Maurizio Giannattasio, Corriere della Sera, Saturday 14 July 2007 La Repubblica, Saturday 14 July 2007
Text by Maurizio Giannattasio, Corriere della Sera Thursday 12 July 2007
Il Giorno, Wednesday 11 July 2007
Text by Maurizio Giannattasio, Mostra Omosex a rischio. Critici divisi sulla censura (Homosexual exhibition at risk. Critics divided over censure)
Corriere della Sera, Sunday 15 July 2007
Il Giornale, Tuesday 10 July 2007
Text by Vittorio Sgarbi, Eugenio Viola Arte e Omosessualità – Da Von Gloeden a Pierre et Giles (Art and homosexuality – from Von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles) Electa catalogue 2007
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Curve pericolose (Dangerous curves), Milan, May 2007
Text by Lorenzo Viganò, Corriere della Sera Magazine n°. 16, 19 April 2007
Arte n°. 374, October 2004
Gulliver n°.10, October 2004
Tuttoturismo n°. 309, October 2004
Text by Alessia Locatelli, Segno e Materia (Mark and matter); Senato, Milan, October 2003
Text by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Quella Sporca Dozzina (The dirty dozen), Udine, October 2003
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Italiana 2003. La nuova scena artistica (Italian 2003. The new art scene), Venice
Strasbourg, June 2003
Text by Chicca Gagliardo, Ecco la new wave (Here comes the new wave), Glamour, n°.136, June 2003
That’s Art n°. 42, May 2003
That’s Art n°. 41, April 2003
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Dal Glamour al medioevo (From glamour to the Middle Ages), Turin, 2003
Text by Gianluca Cantaro, Questo abito è un opera d’arte (This dress is a work of art) D La Repubblica n°. 347, April 2003
Text by Valentina Agostinis, Carnet n°. 4, April 2003
Tema Celeste n°. 96, March-April 2003
Text by Alessandro Riva, Cassarà. Storie di ordinaria seduzione (Cassarà. Stories of ordinary seduction), Arte n°. 355, March 2003
Text by Alessandro Riva, Photoshock, Arte n°. 353, January 2003
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Semidee in forma seriale (Semigoddesses in serial form), Milan, December 2002
Text by Alessandro Riva, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, La rinascita della scultura (The rebirth of sculpture), Arte n°. 350 – October 2002
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga Ritorno alla costruzione (Return to construction), Sassuolo, July 2002
Curated by Alessandro Riva, La Nuova scultura alla ricerca dell’identità perduta (The new sculpture in search of a lost identity), Rome, June 2002
Curated by Donna Marella Agnelli, Alberto Fiz, Artisti di Torino per Mamre (Artists of Turin for the charity Mamre), Christie’s catalogue, April 2002
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga L’Eden? Un inferno! (Eden? Pure hell!), Verona, April 2001
Text by Gianluca Marziani, Kult n°.5, year 4, 2001
Text by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Generazione Carosello (Carosello Generation — Translator’s note: Carosello was a popular Italian children’s TV programme from the 1950s to the 1970s), Mantua, March 2001
Text by Alessandro Riva, Sette – Il Corriere della Sera – n°. 14, April 2000
Text by Gianluca Marziani, Arte n°. 318, February 2000
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Il nuovo ritratto. Rinascita di un (non) genere (The new portrait. Rebirth of a (non) genre), Milan 1998
Text by Flavio Caroli L’Uomo che non verrà (The man who will not come), Milan 1998
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Superrealtà, l’isterismo della comunicazione e la bestia from: un miliardo di piedi (Superreality, the hysteria of communication and the billion-footed beast), Milan 1998
Text by Cristina Magnaschi, Madame Class, July 1998
Curated by Alberto Fiz, La sfida di Chronos (The challenge of Chronos) – Republic of San Marino, 1998
Text by Fabia Di Drusco, Vogue, April 1998
Text by Manuela Gandini, Il popolo contemporaneo (The people of today) in: Il Sole 24 ore , 8 March 1998
Text by Ilaria Ventriglia, Next n°. 42/43, spring / summer 1998
Text by Mauro Bianchini, Tutte le donne di Cassarà (All Cassarà’s women), Lombardia Oggi n°. 261, 8 March 1998
Text by Vittorio Sgarbi, Grazia n°. 12, 27 March 1998
Text by Alessandro Riva, Commedia umana di fine millennio. Tra erotismo e moda (An end-of-millennium human play, where eroticism meets fashion), Arte n°. 295, March 1998
Text by Marta Pellis, Le serate della Galleria Spatia (Evenings at the Spatia gallery), Il Giorno Milano, 22 February 1998
Text by Silvia Dell’Orso La Repubblica – Tutto Milano, February 1998
Text by Giovanna Poletti, Anna n°. 8, February 1998
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Cronache vere (True chronicles), Milan 1998
Curated by Alberto Fiz, Le pop model di Cassarà (Cassarà’s pop models), Milan 1998
Text by Corrado Levi, Milan, January 1998
Curated by Alberto Fiz, Mitovelocità (Speed-myth) – Republic of San Marino 1998
Temaceleste, Tendenze dell’arte giovane in Italia (Trends in young art in Italy), in: Tema Celeste n°. 68, May/June 1998
Tentazioni, Sembianze corporee (Bodily likenesses), in: Tentazioni, February 1998
Art Leader Dee di fine millennio (End-of-millennium goddesses) in: Art Leader n°. 37, January/February 1998
Rai 3, Onda anomala (Freak wave), November 1998, RAI TRE
La Stampa, Ironia a disagio su una fotografia (Irony ill-at-ease in a photograph), in: La Stampa Turin, 4 February 1996
Curated by Luca Beatrice, Tix-Trance Italy Express 1996
Text by Massimo Caiazzo, Olis, November 1995
Text by Lorella Giudici, Juliet n°. 74, October/November 1995
Text by Giusi Petringa, Il Giornale, 29 October 1995
Text by Alessandra Fanelli, OFX Office International, September/October 1995 Rolando Bellini, Olis, April 1995
Curated by Christian Leigh, Rispetto per la strada (Respect for the street) – People, Milan 1995
Tema Celeste, Il Fantastico In Arte (Fantasy in art), 1995
Curated by Gabriele Perretta, Icastica (Representative art), Bologna 1994
Text by Roberto Daolino Flash Art n°. 188, November 1994
Text by Claudia Colasanti, l’Unità Bologna, June 1994
Text by Floriana Piqué Flash Art n°. 174, april 1993
Text by Giuditta Villa, Segno n°. 22, March 1998
Text by Paolo Levi, Gli omini di Cassarà, caricature e realtà (Cassarà’s men, caricature and reality), La Repubblica, Turin, February 1993
Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Imprimatur, Milan 1992
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SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024/25 Ombre di Vita, (Shadows of Life), Galleria Laboratorio 41, Macerata
2021/22 Fetish Fashion, Gallery Vik Milano, Milan
2011 In Her Shoes, Gallery Francesco Zanuso, Milan
2010 Les Jeux Sont Femmes, Gallery San Lorenzo, Milan
2004/05 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery il Castello, Trento
2003 Paolo Cassarà, Galleria ArtAndArts,Turin
2002/2003 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery Marella Arte Contemporanea, Spazio Consolo, Milan
1998/99 Tre Modi di Essere Donna (Three Ways of Being a Woman), Gallery In Arco, Turin
1998 Sembianze Corporee (Bodily Likenesses), Gallery Manuela Nanni, Milan
1996 People, Gallery d’Arte Moderna il Castello, Trento
1995 Coquetel 26, Milan
1995 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery Sergio Tossi, Prato, Florence
1995 People, Gallery Ruggerini & Zonca, Milan
1994 Paolo Cassarà, Speedway Gallery, Boston USA
1993 Paolo Cassarà, Gallery Guido Carbone, Turin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Save the Date Carousel – a rotate group shows, Fabbrica Eos, Milan
2024 Pray for Pride, Gallery, Gli Eroici Furori, Milan
2024 Dobre Novice, Kamnik, Slovenia
2021 New World Order, Gallery Venice Faktory, Venice
2019 Superfashion, Gallery Vik, Milan
2018 The Greatest Things, Kspaces, Street del pascolo 37, Turin
2017 Aeterna, Triennale di arti visive a Roma, Palazzo Velli, Rome
2015 Hands Up!, Sotheby’s, Spazio Bigli, Milan
2014 Keith Haring & Jean Michel Basquiat & Pop-Up Revolution, MdM Museum, Porto Cervo, Italy
2014 Superheroes, Gestalt Gallery Galleria Pack, Pietra Santa, Italy
2014 Superheroes,Villa Bertelli, Forte dei Marmi, Italy
2014 POP-UP Revolution, Caserma XXIV May, Milan
2013 Guido Crepax Ritratto di un artista, Palazzo Reale, Milan
2013 Shop..Les Jeux d’Amour, Ostrakon Gallery, Milan
2013 Salome & Nipposugestioni, Spazio A.M.I.C.I.,Milan
2012 Dresscode, Showroom Massimo Crivelli, Milan
2012 Myra Galleries, Miami USA
2012 Poker, My Own Gallery, Superstudio Più, Milan
2010 Please Me Fashion – Fluttuazioni fra Arte e Moda (Fluctuations Between Art and Fashion), Palazzo Ducale, Sabbioneta, Italy
2010 Terzo Rinascimento (Third Renaissance), Palazzo Ducale, Urbino
2008 Rumors, Ex Arsenale Borgo Dora, Turin, concurrent with the Artissima Fair
2008 Questo Mondo è Fantastico. Omaggio al gallerista Guido Carbone (This World is Fantastic. Homage to gallery owner Guido Carbone), Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin
2008 Arte e Omosessualità – Da Von Gloeden a Pierre et Giles (Art and Homosexuality – from Von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles), Palazzina Reale di Santa Maria
Novella, Florence
2007 La Nuova Figurazione Italiana – To Be Continued… (The New Italian Figuration…) Fabbrica Borroni, Bollate, Milan
2007 Nuovi Pittori della Realtà (New Reality Painters) – PAC, Milan
2007 Nuovi Pittori della Realtà (New Reality Painters), Premio Michetti Award, Francavilla Al Mare, Italy
2007 Arte e Omosessualità – Vade Retro (Art and Homosexuality – Vade Retro), Palazzo della Ragione, Milan
2007 Curve Pericolose (Dangerous Curves), Casello Ovest di Porta Venezia, Milan
2007 Street Art Sweet Art – Bazaar Pop-Up, PAC, Milan
2004 Subway 3004, in collaboration with the City of Milan
2004 Segno e Materia (Mark and Mater) – Municipality of Senato, Villa San Carlo Borromeo, Senato, Milan
2004 Normali Meraviglie (Ordinary Wonders), Magazzini del Cotone, Porto Antico, Genoa
2003 Musica per Organi Caldi (Music for Hot Organs) – 3gg Arte Contemporanea, Udine
2003 La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana (The New Italian Art Scene] – Italian Factory, European Parliament, Strasbourg
2003 La Nuova Scena Artistica Italiana (The New Italian Art Scene) – Italian Factory, Istituto Santa Maria della Pietà, collateral event, 50th International Art
Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2003 Aria di Primavera: Condividere e Aiutare (Spring in the Air: Sharing and Helping) – Art exhibition, Sacile, Pordenone, Italy
2003 Cioccolatarts (Chocolatarts), Cavallerizza Reale, Turin
2002 Galleria Battaglia, Milan
2002 Sculturama, Galleria Annovi, Sassuolo, Modena
2002 Nuova Scultura Italiana (New Italian Sculpture), Il Polittico, Rome
2002 Artisti di Torino per Mamre (Artists of Turin for the Charity Mamre) – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea,Turin
2001Paradiso Perduto (Paradise Lost), Galleria La Giarina, Verona
2001La Linea Dolce della Nuova Figurazione (The Gentle Line of the New Figuration) – Galleria Annovi, Sassuolo, Modena
2001 Tredici artisti a confronto (Thirteen Artists Compared), Galleria Bonelli Arte Contemporanea, Mantua
2000 Sui Generis: La Ridefinizione del Genere nella Nuova Arte Italiana (Sui generis: The Redefinition of Gender in New Italian Art) PAC, Milan
2000 Trapassato Futuro (Future History), Cartiere Vannucci, Milan.
2000 Patty Pravo Come un Angelo da Collezione (Patty Pravo as a Collectible Angel), Villa Caruso, Lastra Signa, Florence
1999/98 Home Sweet Home – Arti Assortite, Turin
1998 Mitovelocità (Speed-myth), Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Republic of San Marino.
1998 Cronache Vere (True Chronicles) – Spazio Consolo, Milan.
1998 Il Nuovo Ritratto in Italia (The New Portrait in Italy) – Spazio Consolo, Milan
1997 Collezionismo Permanente (Permanently Collecting) – Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, Siracusa
1996 Francia Italia Presenze in Quota (France Italy Presences at Altitude), Sestriere, Turin
1996 Collezionismo A Torino (Collecting in Turin), Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin
1996 Caleidoscopio (Kaleidoscope), Galleria Ruggerini & Zonca, Milan.
1996 Tix – Trance Italy Xpress – Centro Art’s Events, Benevento, Italy.
1996 Arte Fuori Luogo (Art Out of Place), Carpi, Modena.
1996 Il Rock è Duro 3 (Rock Is Hard 3), Autorimessa Boetti Matteo Car Park, Rome
1995 Il Fantastico nella Giovane Arte Italiana (Fantasy in Young Italian Art), Syracuse
1994 Il Rock è Duro 2 (Rock Is Hard 2) – Galleria Sergio Tossi, Prato
1994 Extra Small, Gallery Guido Carbone, Turin
1994 Icastica (Representative Art) Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
1994/95 Anteprima ’95 (Preview ’95), Galleria il Castello, Trento
1993 Il Rock è Duro (Rock Is Hard), Centro Culturale S. Andrea, Savona.
1993 Art is Life, Museo dell’Automobile, Turin
1992 Imprimatur, ex Church of San Carpoforo, Milan
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Segno, 10 febbraio 2025, text by Barbara Caterbetti, Ombre di vita, (Shadows of Life) curated by Gabriele Perretta – exhibit, Giorgio Lupatelli, Paolo Cassarà e Moreno Ovani.
Segno n°. 299, January/February 2025, curated by Gabriele Perretta, Trame Silenziose – Un Dialogo tra Silenzio, Materia e Trasformazione (Silent textures – A Dialogue Between Silence, Matter and Transformation).
Text by Gabriele Perretta, Ombre di vita. Non è Solo una Questione di Reale, (Shadows of Life. It Is Not Just a Question of Reality) 2024
Text by Giuditta Elettra, Fetish Fashion, Gallery Vik Milan, January 2022
Text by Chiara Canali, Donne sull’orlo di una crisi d’influencer, (Women on the brink of an influencer crisis), Arte IN, n°. 7, march 2022
Art Post Pinterest, May 2017
Text by Irene Tireno, L’ultima disperata speranza artistica per questa umanità narcotizzata (The last desperate artistic hope for this narcotized humanity), 8 April 2017
Rai News 24, Focus 24, Exhibiton Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma, 2 April 2017
Text by Chiara Capomaggi, That’s All Trends, Aeterna, Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma 24 March 2017
Aeterna, Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma, Eliconie 24 March 2017
Triennale di Arti Visive a Roma, Roma, Exibart, 24 March 2017
Text by Andrea Agrifoglio, La Triennale Aeterna, Gazzetta regionale Lazio, 27 February 2017
Text by Gianni Dunil, Vittorio Sgarbi, Aeterna, Esposizione Triennale di arti visive a
Roma, catalogue Start Edizioni 2017
Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva e da Elettronics Art Cafe, Artribune – Keith Haring & Jean Michel Basquiat & Pop Up Revolution, MDM Museum, Porto Cervo 2014
Text by Chiara Campo, Scarpe-scultura firmate Cassara’(Shoes-sculpture signed Cassarà), il Giornale, 17 February 2014
Text by Simone Mosca,Valentina e i suoi fratelli Jekull e Orlando Furioso (Valentina and her brothers Jekull and Orlando Furioso) La Repubblica 20 June
Guido Crepax, Portrait of an Artist, Palazzo Reale, catalogue Italian edition, French English, Nuages 2013
Text by Giovanna Calvenzi, La donna e un<Poker>di sguardi, Corriere della sera 19 January 2012
Glamour n°.217, March 2010
Text by Bria, espoarte, n°. 64 April-May 2010
Curated by Chiara Canali, Cariatidi del terzo millennio, (Caryatids of the third millennium), Milan, February-March 2010
Made 05, December – January 2008
Various authors, Rumors, Italian Factory catalogue 2008
Curated by Luca Beatrice, Questo mondo è fantastico. Omaggio al gallerista Guido Carbone (This world is fantastic. Homage to gallery owner Guido Carbone)
Electa catalogue, 2008
RAI 1, Vade Retro – Porta a Porta, December 2007
Curated by Chiara Canali, La Nuova Figurazione Italiana – To Be Continued… (The new Italian figuration…)
Text by Silvana Editore catalogue 2007
Blue, Vade Retro Censura (Censure), September 2007
Cronaca Vera n°. 1821, 1 August 2007
Tele Lombardia, Vade Retro, 19 July 2007
La Repubblica, Vade Retro, ritorno a Milan (return to Milan) (Milan pages)
La Repubblica, Saturday 28 July 2007
Metro, Wednesday 25 July 2007
La Repubblica, Monday 16 July 2007
La Repubblica, Sunday 15 July 2007
Libero, Sunday 15 July 2007
Il Giornale, Sunday 15 July 2007
Text by Armando Stella, Cassarà: basta discriminazioni, la mia pietà non è blasfema (Cassarà: stop the discrimination, my Pietà is not blasphemous). Corriere della Sera, Sunday 15 July 2007
Text by G.Battista Anastasio, Il Giorno, Sunday 15 July 2007
Il Giornale, Saturday 14 July 2007
Il Giorno, Saturday 14 July 2007
Text by Maurizio Giannattasio, Corriere della Sera, Saturday 14 July 2007 La Repubblica, Saturday 14 July 2007
Text by Maurizio Giannattasio, Corriere della Sera Thursday 12 July 2007
Il Giorno, Wednesday 11 July 2007
Text by Maurizio Giannattasio, Mostra Omosex a rischio. Critici divisi sulla censura (Homosexual exhibition at risk. Critics divided over censure)
Corriere della Sera, Sunday 15 July 2007
Il Giornale, Tuesday 10 July 2007
Text by Vittorio Sgarbi, Eugenio Viola Arte e Omosessualità – Da Von Gloeden a Pierre et Giles (Art and homosexuality – from Von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles) Electa catalogue 2007
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Curve pericolose (Dangerous curves), Milan, May 2007
Text by Lorenzo Viganò, Corriere della Sera Magazine n°. 16, 19 April 2007
Arte n°. 374, October 2004
Gulliver n°.10, October 2004
Tuttoturismo n°. 309, October 2004
Text by Alessia Locatelli, Segno e Materia (Mark and matter); Senato, Milan, October 2003
Text by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Quella Sporca Dozzina (The dirty dozen), Udine, October 2003
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Italiana 2003. La nuova scena artistica (Italian 2003. The new art scene), Venice
Strasbourg, June 2003
Text by Chicca Gagliardo, Ecco la new wave (Here comes the new wave), Glamour, n°.136, June 2003
That’s Art n°. 42, May 2003
That’s Art n°. 41, April 2003
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Dal Glamour al medioevo (From glamour to the Middle Ages), Turin, 2003
Text by Gianluca Cantaro, Questo abito è un opera d’arte (This dress is a work of art) D La Repubblica n°. 347, April 2003
Text by Valentina Agostinis, Carnet n°. 4, April 2003
Tema Celeste n°. 96, March-April 2003
Text by Alessandro Riva, Cassarà. Storie di ordinaria seduzione (Cassarà. Stories of ordinary seduction), Arte n°. 355, March 2003
Text by Alessandro Riva, Photoshock, Arte n°. 353, January 2003
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Semidee in forma seriale (Semigoddesses in serial form), Milan, December 2002
Text by Alessandro Riva, Maurizio Sciaccaluga, La rinascita della scultura (The rebirth of sculpture), Arte n°. 350 – October 2002
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga Ritorno alla costruzione (Return to construction), Sassuolo, July 2002
Curated by Alessandro Riva, La Nuova scultura alla ricerca dell’identità perduta (The new sculpture in search of a lost identity), Rome, June 2002
Curated by Donna Marella Agnelli, Alberto Fiz, Artisti di Torino per Mamre (Artists of Turin for the charity Mamre), Christie’s catalogue, April 2002
Curated by Maurizio Sciaccaluga L’Eden? Un inferno! (Eden? Pure hell!), Verona, April 2001
Text by Gianluca Marziani, Kult n°.5, year 4, 2001
Text by Maurizio Sciaccaluga, Generazione Carosello (Carosello Generation — Translator’s note: Carosello was a popular Italian children’s TV programme from the 1950s to the 1970s), Mantua, March 2001
Text by Alessandro Riva, Sette – Il Corriere della Sera – n°. 14, April 2000
Text by Gianluca Marziani, Arte n°. 318, February 2000
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Il nuovo ritratto. Rinascita di un (non) genere (The new portrait. Rebirth of a (non) genre), Milan 1998
Text by Flavio Caroli L’Uomo che non verrà (The man who will not come), Milan 1998
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Superrealtà, l’isterismo della comunicazione e la bestia from: un miliardo di piedi (Superreality, the hysteria of communication and the billion-footed beast), Milan 1998
Text by Cristina Magnaschi, Madame Class, July 1998
Curated by Alberto Fiz, La sfida di Chronos (The challenge of Chronos) – Republic of San Marino, 1998
Text by Fabia Di Drusco, Vogue, April 1998
Text by Manuela Gandini, Il popolo contemporaneo (The people of today) in: Il Sole 24 ore , 8 March 1998
Text by Ilaria Ventriglia, Next n°. 42/43, spring / summer 1998
Text by Mauro Bianchini, Tutte le donne di Cassarà (All Cassarà’s women), Lombardia Oggi n°. 261, 8 March 1998
Text by Vittorio Sgarbi, Grazia n°. 12, 27 March 1998
Text by Alessandro Riva, Commedia umana di fine millennio. Tra erotismo e moda (An end-of-millennium human play, where eroticism meets fashion), Arte n°. 295, March 1998
Text by Marta Pellis, Le serate della Galleria Spatia (Evenings at the Spatia gallery), Il Giorno Milano, 22 February 1998
Text by Silvia Dell’Orso La Repubblica – Tutto Milano, February 1998
Text by Giovanna Poletti, Anna n°. 8, February 1998
Curated by Alessandro Riva, Cronache vere (True chronicles), Milan 1998
Curated by Alberto Fiz, Le pop model di Cassarà (Cassarà’s pop models), Milan 1998
Text by Corrado Levi, Milan, January 1998
Curated by Alberto Fiz, Mitovelocità (Speed-myth) – Republic of San Marino 1998
Temaceleste, Tendenze dell’arte giovane in Italia (Trends in young art in Italy), in: Tema Celeste n°. 68, May/June 1998
Tentazioni, Sembianze corporee (Bodily likenesses), in: Tentazioni, February 1998
Art Leader Dee di fine millennio (End-of-millennium goddesses) in: Art Leader n°. 37, January/February 1998
Rai 3, Onda anomala (Freak wave), November 1998, RAI TRE
La Stampa, Ironia a disagio su una fotografia (Irony ill-at-ease in a photograph), in: La Stampa Turin, 4 February 1996
Curated by Luca Beatrice, Tix-Trance Italy Express 1996
Text by Massimo Caiazzo, Olis, November 1995
Text by Lorella Giudici, Juliet n°. 74, October/November 1995
Text by Giusi Petringa, Il Giornale, 29 October 1995
Text by Alessandra Fanelli, OFX Office International, September/October 1995 Rolando Bellini, Olis, April 1995
Curated by Christian Leigh, Rispetto per la strada (Respect for the street) – People, Milan 1995
Tema Celeste, Il Fantastico In Arte (Fantasy in art), 1995
Curated by Gabriele Perretta, Icastica (Representative art), Bologna 1994
Text by Roberto Daolino Flash Art n°. 188, November 1994
Text by Claudia Colasanti, l’Unità Bologna, June 1994
Text by Floriana Piqué Flash Art n°. 174, april 1993
Text by Giuditta Villa, Segno n°. 22, March 1998
Text by Paolo Levi, Gli omini di Cassarà, caricature e realtà (Cassarà’s men, caricature and reality), La Repubblica, Turin, February 1993
Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva, Imprimatur, Milan 1992