Niele Toroni (born 15 March 1937 in Muralto) is a

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. He lives and works in Paris.

Work

In 1966 Toroni started a practice he calls "Travail-Peinture". Toroni's method, brushstrokes made with imprints of a no. 50 paintbrush repeated at perpendicular 30 centimeter intervals, was first shown at a debut in 1967 in Paris at an exhibition-performance at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture in the Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. That same year, Toroni founded the BMPT (art group) together with Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, and Michel Parmentier. In works like ''Miroir d’Eau'' (1973) and ''Vert Wagon'' (1977), the imprints made with a n°50 paintbrush are repeated at regular intervals of 30 cm.

Exhibitions

Toroni was included in

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s 7 (1982) and 9 (1992); São Paulo Art Biennial in 1991; and the

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of 1976. Solo exhibitions include shows at Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany in 2002; Niele Toroni: Histoires de Peinture at l'ARC/ Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, in 2001; Musée Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, and Avignon 2000, France in 2000. Other venues include: Base at Centro d'Arte, Florence and Niele Toroni, Siena Centro d'Arte Contemporani, Palazzo della Papesse, Siena in 1999; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux in 1997;

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, and

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, Amsterdam in 1994;

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in 1991, and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1990; Villa Arson, Nice and the Museum of Grenoble in 1987. In 1995 he completed a Public Art Project on

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, Manchester, England.Niele Toroni, September 10 - October 11, 2003
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. Toroni is represented by Marian Goodman Gallery in London, New York and Paris.

Collections

Toroni's works are part of major collections, including the

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, New York; the

Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art The Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg (MAMCS, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art) is an art museum in Strasbourg, France, which was founded in 1973 and opened in its own building in November 1998. One of the largest of its k ...

, Strasbourg; the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Luzern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich.

Recognition

Toroni received the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen in 2017, the Prix Meret Oppenheim in 2012, the Wolfgang Hahn Prize,

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, Germany in 2003 and the French Vermeil Medal, awarded by the City of Paris in 2001.

References

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