Roberto Cuoghi

 
Roberto Cuoghi (born 1973 in Modena, lives and works in Milan) is a multimedia artist working in painting, sculpture, digital animation, drawing and sound. He is perhaps best known for his dramatic life choice, at age 24, where he physically altered his appearance to become a well-respected man in his sixties. That decision laid the groundwork for many of his works that explore issues surrounding transformation, time, memory, identity, and death. One of his most recent works, Šuillakku—corral version (2014), a large-scale sound installation that creates a hybrid between the music of non-Western and Western cultures and is inspired by the ancient Assyrian empire, was the subject of his first U.S. museum show at the New Museum in the spring of 2014.
Roberto Cuoghi's recent solo exhibitions were held at the New Museum, New York, NY (2014); the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011); the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2008). His work has been shown in numerous group exhibitions at important venues worldwide, such as Collection Sandretto Re Rebaudengo: Have you seen me before?, Whitechapel Gallery, London, (2013); The Encyclopedic Palace, the 55th Venice Biennale, (2013); The Residue of Memory,, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (2012); 10000 Lives, Gwangju Biennale, Korea (2010); Skin Fruit, New Museum, New York (2010); Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, 53rd Venice Biennale, (2009); Fractured Figure, DESTE Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens (2007); Sequence 1, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy (2007); and Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (2006).
Roberto Cuoghi has represented Italy at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017.
 
Roberto Cuoghi - Da iḍā e piṅgalā a iḍā e iḍā o piṅgalā e piṅgalā
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
An adventure exploring drifts in translation (artist's book).
Roberto Cuoghi - Da iḍā e piṅgalā a iḍā e iḍā o piṅgalā e piṅgalā - Luxury edition
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition (20 copies) of Roberto Cuoghi's artist book, accompanied by an offset printing in colors + selective varnish laminated on Dibond (27 x 40 cm), numbered and signed by the artist.
Roberto Cuoghi - Void
2010
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Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
sold out
An editorial sculpture pushing the boundaries of what an artist's book can be, Void is a radical, minimalist and dramatic project conceived by Federico Pepe (Le Dictateur), which offers a dizzying exploration of the void through a system of perforated pages, revealing a work at its center. Each issue gives room to a single work of a single artist.
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