Biography

Raffaele CioffiHe was born in Desio (Milan) in 1971, he graduated at the “Liceo Artistico Papa Ratti” in Desio, where he began to devote his interests in painting. But it’s only at “Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera” in Milan, that his programmatic choice becomes clear. The acquaintance of artists like Claudio Olivieri, Mario Raciti, belonging to the area of “Pittura Pittura” (Painting Painting), is fundamental for the development of his own language. Among the most important exhibitions organized in private galleries and public institutions in Italy and abroad, we must remember his personal extibitions in Young Museum of Revere near Mantova organized in 2001 (Exhibition catalogue “Il volto dell’anima” edited by Claudio Cerritelli) and in 2003 in Chiostro di Voltorre, Museo d’Arte Moderna, in Gavirate (VA) (Exhibition catalogue “Prospettiva interiore” edited by Marco Meneguzzo).

 

EXHIBITION

2011
L’aur’amara, Ex Chiesa San Carpoforo, Milano
Il ritmo del colore, Spazio Concept, Milano – solo exhibition
Arte Accessibile, Il sole 24 ore, Milano

2010
Der emotionale Raum der Malerei, Galerie Vorstadt 14, Zug (Svizzera) – solo exhibition (catalogue)

2009
Museo Nazionale Villa Pisani, Stra (Venezia) – solo exhibition (catalogue)
Spazio Tadini, Milano – solo exhibition
Galleria Alexander Alvarez, Alessandria – solo exhibition

2008
Spazio Guicciardini, generazioni anni ‘70, Milano
Galleria Silvano lodi & due, il rosso e il nero, Milano

2007
Villa Bertarelli, Din Don Arte, Galbiate (Lecco)
Palazzo della permanente, Profilo d’Arte, Milano
Civico Museo Parisi-Valle, generazione anni ‘70, Maccagni

2005
Galleria Pangeart, Bellinzona (Svizzera) – solo exhibition
Esposizioni fieristiche, Galleria Concetti d’Arte, Osnago (Lecco) – (catalogue)

2003
Galleria Sekanina, Ferrara – solo exhibition
Galleria Edieuropa, Roma – solo exhibition (catalgue)
Galleria Ezio Mariani, Seregno (catalogue)
Chiostro di Voltorre, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Gavirate (Varese) – solo exhibition (catalogue)

2002
Civica Pinacoteca di Lissone, Lissone (Milano)
Open. Art gallery, Milano – solo exhibition
Visione Interiore itinerante (catalogue)
Palazzo Bargnani Dandalo, Adro (Brescia)
Villa Glisenti, Villa Carcina (Brescia)
Fondazione Cicogna Rampana, Palazzolo sull’Oglio (Brescia)
Chiesa dei Disciplini, Castenedolo (Brescia)

2001
Young Museum, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Revere (Mantova) – solo exhibition (catalogue)
Cavenaghi Arte, Milano – solo exhibition

1999
Rassegna di Pittura Bice Bugatti, Nova Milanese (Milano)
XXXIX Premio Suzzara, Suzzara (Mantova)

1998
BSH, Milano

1997
Centro Culturale Maggi, Sesto San Giovanni (Milano)
Rassegna di Pittura Bice Bugatti, Nova Milanese (Milano)

1996
Premio San Carlo Borromeo, Palazzo della Permanente, Milano
Galleria Lodi, Los Angeles

1995
Salone Clerici ACLI, Milano

1994
Galleria Morone 6, Milano

1993
Villa Ghirlanda, Cinisello Balsamo (Milano)

1991
Il Centro, Nova Milanese (Milano)

1989
Villa Reale, Monza

1988
UCAI, Milano