Ivan De Menis

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Ivan De Menis, born in 1973 in Treviso, has been working in the international market for many years. The Venetian painting of Bellini, Giorgione and Titian, strongly characterized by color and light, inspire him as well as the colors, lights and water reflections of the cities of Venice and Treviso. Ivan De Menis works abstractly, his means of expression are form, color and material, nothing more and nothing less. Without content, without stories, pure and simple radical painting. The artist uses color as a vector of energy and an emotional component, in his smaller works called “tesserae” – like individual fragments taken from a larger mosaic – one can perceive aspects that change as soon as one looks at them sideways.

The lateral surfaces of the rectangular and square works are fundamental to understanding De Menis’ work: it is there that one senses the painting and it is there that one notices the signs of the working process, which is much longer and more complex than what one sees in the front, which is so linear, shiny and sealed with epoxy resin. As is often the case, the charm lies in the contrast: on the one hand intense colors and brightness, and on the other hand obvious color streaks and textures.

Solo exhibitions

2023
Barcelona, Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

2022
Silenzi, & Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Magnifique, Fondazione Uomo Fondazione d’Inverno, Milan, Italy
Layer by Layer, MLXF untitled, Andorra

2021
Prospettive, ArToxin Gallery, Munich, Germany
Frammenti, Fondazione Uomo Fondazione d’Inverno, Milan, Italy

2019
Overlays, Galerie Maximilian Hutz, Hard, Austria

2018
Riflessi, Sharevolution, Genoa, Italy
Tempi A Strat(T)I, Spazio 56, Figino Serenza, Italy
Solo Show, Art Karlsruhe, ArToxin Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
Solo Show, Arte Fiera Bologna, Project B Gallery, Bologna, Italy

2016
Ivan De Menis, Morotti Arte Contemporanea, Varese, Italy
Dialoghi, C2 contemporanea, Florence, Italy
Contaminazioni, Kunstlerhaus, Klagenfurt, Austria

2015
Compressioni, Project B Gallery, Milan, Italy
Residence, Galerie RX, Ivry Sur Seine, France
Solo Show, Arte Fiera Bologna, Morotti Arte, Bologna, Italy

2014
Tessera et Rette, Galerie Des Sables, Saint Briac Sur Mer, France
Memories, Colleggio San Giuseppe, Follina, Italy
Invisibili Tracce, Casa Cima, Conegliano, Italy
Materie Evanescenti, Studio Vanna Casati, Bergamo, Italy
Views 2.0, Galerie Hebert, Paris, France

2013
Views, Galerie Bartoli, Marseille, France
San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2012
Ivan De Menis, Galerie Hebert, Paris, France

2011
Proteggere il tempo, San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venice, Italy

2010
Tracciati, Art Way Gallery, Treviso, Italy

2008
Tessere il vuoto, Atelier 34_58, Treviso, Italy

Group exhibitions

2023
Shine, Marcorossi artecontemporanea, Milan, Pietrasanta, Turin, Verona, Italy

2022
Summer Show, Piermarq Gallery, Sidney, Australia
Make a Wish, MLXF untitled, Andorra
Homenaje, collection ACB Barbara De Rueda, Santander, Spain

2021
Abstract/3/Structure, Galerie Biesenbach, Cologne, Germany
Annual winter exhibition, & Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Color- New Position Today, Galeria Xavier Fiol, Palma, Spain
No Tags, XF proyectos, Madrid, Spain
KonZENTRATION, Millstart, Millstatt Am See, Austria
Tiny yet mighty, & Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Orbit, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Australia

2020
Configurate, & Gallery, Edinburgo, Scotland
Carte Blanche, Galerie Biesenbach, Colonia, Germany
Image_Object, Poimena Gallery, Launceston, Australia
Winter Exhibition, & Gallery, Edinburgo, Scotland

2019
Zone di Confine, Circolo Eleutheros, Albissola Marina, Italy
Quante storie sulla luna…, Colossi arte contemporanea, Brescia, Italy
V. Vago – I. De Menis – D. Lindberg – A. Sanzone, Spazio Buganza, Milan, Italy
Small World, Galerie Biesenbach, Colonia, Germany
Breathe, Museum St Wendel, Wendel, Germany
Painter Painter, Heidelberg Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany
Superfici eloquenti, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milan, Italy
Cabinets de Curiosités//Wunderkammer, LE6b, Saint Denis, France
The World of Icons, Voloshyn Gallery, Kiev, Ucraina

2018
Icons/icon Essence, KNO Bulgakov Museum, Kiev, Ucraina
MiArt, Project B, Milan, Italy
Absolute, Boecker contemporary, Heidelberg, Germany

2017
Oorverdovende Stilte-De halle, Geel Art Center Hugo Voeten, Herentals Belgium, Belgium
Palinsesti, Galleria Sharevolution Arte Contemporanea, Genoa, Italy
Ivan De Menis/Mario Palli, Artoxin Gallery, Munich, Germany
Heimat.Domovina.Patria, Kro Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Chronos- le stanze del contemporaneo, Palazzo Botti/Palazzo Colleoni, Bergamo, Italy
MiArt, Project B, Milan, Italy

2016
COLORE, LABS gallery, Bologna, Italy
Project B10, Project B, Milan, Italy
De Leur Temps 5, I.A.C. Institut d’Art Contemporain, Lion, France

2014
Acqua, Kro Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Art Verona, Morotti Arte Contemporanea, Verona, Italy
Racconti brevi, Morotti Arte Contemporanea, Varese, Italy

2013
OLTRE otto artisti al di là dell’apparenza, Rocca San Giorgio, Orzinuovi, Brescia, Italy

2012
Emergenze del sentire”, Villa Brandolini, Pieve di Soligo, Italy
OLTRE otto artisti al di là dell’apparenza, Sala Manzù, Bergamo, Italy

2010
Ricognizione sulla nuova arte in Veneto, Studio Bazzini Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

2009
Tra segno e Materia, Galleria d’arte 911, La Spezia, Italy

2008
Petali rossi, Galleria ZeroUno, Barletta, Italy
Dentro e fuori una cornice, Galleria ZeroUno, Barletta, Italy
Casa du Brasil, Madrid, Spain
Cristalli di Rocca, Galleria civica di Palazzo Borgatta, Rocca Grimalda, Alessandria, Italy
Espace Miromesnil, Paris, France

1997
Villa Moretti, Casaleggio, Novara, Italy

1996
Nuove figure, San Gregorio Art Gallery, Venice, Italy