Flavio Pacino builds systems in which form is never final. The works change through time, space, materials and the relationships that run through them. Drawings, structures, plant elements, synthetic materials, objects and fragments of writing are layered, grafted or preserved, producing forms suspended between control and accident. Drawing often becomes a way of occupying space, while the act of preserving brings a transformation with it: what is protected can no longer remain what it was. The work observes this distance, questioning what remains of a place, an organism, a gesture or a relationship.
Flavio Pacino (Florence, 1993) is a visual artist trained between design and visual arts. After studying Communication and Product Design at ISIA Florence, Pacino completed a two-year degree in Visual Arts at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna. In 2010 Pacino began studying painting in the studio of the Spanish artist Fran Bobadilla in Florence, in 2018 worked in the studio of Nuno Sousa Vieira in Leiria and in 2019 collaborated with the studio of Gaetano Pesce in New York. The practice spans drawing, sculpture, installation and video.
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Solo exhibitions (selection)
2024
Dalle caviglie in giù, permanent installation – curated by G. Cantelli, A. Mescoli e M. Piccinini, in collaboration with Ricognizioni sull’Arte – Castelnuovo Rangone, Modena (Italy)
2023
Collected Poems – CRAD Castelnuovo Rangone, Modena (Italy)
Non ho mai lasciato fiori tra le pagine di un libro prima di conoscerti – Marsaladue, Bologna (Italy)
2021
Scenografia per un film che sembra fermo – Artigianelli, Florence (Italy) with Costanza Battaglini
2020
Collected Poems – digital exhibition – Spazio CRAC, Modena (Italy) – curated by Alessandro Mescoli
2018
Superfici iniziali – Adiacenze, Bologna (Italy)
Sull’adattabilità 05 – Vaku Project Space, Bergamo (Italy) – curated by Alberto Ceresoli
Sobre os ventos – Banco de Portugal, Galeria Municipal, Leiria (Portugal) – curated by Nuno Sousa Vieira
2017
21 metri + (17) – Artforms, Prato (Italy) – curated by D. Morellet, R. Morellet e P. Gori
Sull’adattabilità 02 – Porto dell’Arte, Bologna (Italy) – curated by Irene Angenica e Davide Da Pieve
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024
Living Rooms curated by Unobis – Padua (Italy)
La coda, curated by Ricredo – Parma (Italy)
Dell’umana dimensione curated by S. Negrini, T. Cattelani, A. Mescoli e Ricognizioni sull’arte – Pavullo (Italy)
2023
Drawing Market xmas edition – Marsaladue, Bologna (Italy)
Rapsodia dell’abbondanza curated by Caterina Fondelli – Spazio Murka, Florence (Italy)
Drawing Tropical Market – Marsaladue, Bologna (Italy)
Sonnellino in mezzo al legno – Art City, DumBO, Bologna (Italy)
Drawing Market xmas edition – Marsaladue, Bologna (Italy)
2022
Ritmi dell’aria – Art City White Night, Marsaladue, Bologna (Italy) with Gioele Villani
2021
Erbario emoji, condiviso – Traffic Festival, San Lorenzo in Campo (Italy) with Costanza Battaglini
Dalle caviglie in giù – curated by M’AMA.ART e Icons Productions – Parco dell’anima, Noto, Sicily (Italy) with Costanza Battaglini
2019
Artemisia – aromatic garden, Modena (Italy) – curated by Alessandro Mescoli
Hortus Conclusus, Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, Lecce (Italy)
Marcovaldo – Le Houloc, Aubervilliers – Paris (France) – curated by Anna Battiston e Léa Hodencq
2018
Note di un silenzio, SPAZI 2018, Milan (Italy) – curated by Irene Angenica with Costanza Battaglini
2017
Progetto di residenza artistica Z.O.L.F.O, Padua (Italy) – curated by the cultural centre La Medusa
On_the_spot, Anomalie – Santa Croce, Macerata (Italy) – curated by Michele Gentili
Lagolandia, S. Benedetto Val di Sambro (Italy) – curated by Federica Fiumelli
Esercizi di stile – Museo MAMbo, Bologna (Italy) – curated by Francesca Manni, C. Francucci e V. Dehò
2016
Percorsi – Conservatorio G. B. Martini, Bologna (Italy) – curated by Davide Rivalta
Arte nella Natura – Land installation, Pistoia (Italy) – curated by Siliano Simoncini
La grandezza delle mani – P420, Bologna (Italy) – curated by Lelio Aiello with Massimo Marchetti
SOURCE APP – Source Self Made Design, Design Week, Milan (Italy) – curated by Roberto Rubini
Residencies
2024
Cjase 3, curated by Duepunti, hosted by Le serre – FVG (Italy)
Le stanze della giostra di lando – Parma (Italy)
2019
Hortus Conclusus, artist residency with final exhibition at the Fondazione Lac o Le Mon, Lecce (Italy)
2018
Studio di Nuno Sousa Vieira, Leiria (Portugal)
2017
Progetto di residenza artistica Z.O.L.F.O, Padua (Italy) – curated by the cultural centre La Medusa