There Secci Gallery in Florence (piazza Carlo Goldoni, 2), from 17 May to 15 June 2024proposes retrospective in two parts, the first in Italy, by Guy Massaux. The works presented extend from 2001 to 2011. They follow those exhibited (Guy Massaux, Works 1987-1999, Part One) at the “Il Ponte” gallery, in April 2023, in Florence.
Guy Massaux he dedicated his main activity to teaching the practice of drawing, painting and art in public space at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, from 1983 to 2023. At intervals, he practiced painting and drawing as “stateless”. Although living in Brussels, he regularly traveled to Italy to create the majority of his work. It is in fact in Volterra where he progressively took up residence, calling it “my transalpine point of reference” or “my refuge”, in order to develop his passion for Italian culture and to distance himself from the “turmoil of the art world” to which he never claimed to fully belong, despite his work being included in prestigious collections and well-regarded Belgian galleries between the 1990s and 2000s.
Starting from 2012, Guy Massaux will dedicate most of his creation to video-art, as author and director of several short films including Il Rifugio (2015), La Selva rossa (2018), B. o Vita nuova (2022) made in Italian language. From 1987, he will work and install his studio in a pavilion of the former psychiatric hospital which he occupies until 2011.
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