Michele Tocca

Michele Tocca (Subiaco, Rome, 1983) studied painting in Italy, Belgium and the United Kingdom, where he received an MA, Painting, at the Royal College of Art, London (2011). His pictures reflect on the experience of painting and the physical world, returning to questions about their mutual “actuality”, process and metaphor, realism and its paradoxes, the effects of time and history. In this sense, Tocca is the author of writings on the work of artists ranging from Thomas Jones to the present day.

 

In 2023, his work was the subject of a large solo exhibition at GAM – Galleria Civica di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin, part of the acquisition of a group of paintings. Recent exhibitions include: Pittura Italiana Oggi, Triennale, Milan; Positions 2, Alma Pearl, London; Quadri come luoghi, Torre Pallavicina; 63 Premio Termoli, MACTE, Termoli in 2023.

 

Over the years, the artist has exhibited in institutions, galleries and independent spaces in Italy and abroad, including: FLAG ART Foundation, New York; home run, Siena and Brussels; IUNO, Rome; Ipercorpo, Forlì; LNM, Praksis, Oslo 2019; MARCA, Catanzaro; Munange, Crissolo; Museums of Villa Torlonia, Rome; Moscow Biennale; Palazzo de' Toschi, Bologna; Prague Biennale; Studiolo, Milan; z2o Sara Zanin, Rome