Michele Spanghero is a sound and visual artist. His research focuses on acoustic art (declined in the form of music or sound art) and on visual art in the attempt to find a natural synthesis between these two forms of expression. His research is versatile, yet consistent enough to receive the mention as 'Best young Italian artist' in 2016, according to Artribune magazine.
The methodological approach characterizes his work through a continuous survey of the limits of the media: through the study of music and theater, he has indeed acquired an oblique approach that, usually starting from the sound, becomes instinctively tangential to visual art.The creative act is developed by a reaction to the accumulation of information that surrounds us. From this (formless because always mediated) mass of data, the impulse to research and test a new semantic system of the pre-existing matter begins.
Graduated in Modern Literature at the University of Trieste, Spanghero has also attended workshops on electronic and improvised music, sound design and video making.
He has exhibited and performed in different international contexts such as museums, galleries, clubs and festivals including: If I have died of whom do I ask the time, group show, Opendream, Treviso, Italy (2022); Contrappunto 02, group show, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Udine, Italy (2022); Ad lib., konS ≡ the Platform for Contemporary Investigative Arts, Slovenia (2022); Ad lib. Une œuvre de Michele Spanghero, Institut Culturel Italien de Paris, France (2021); Ad Lib., sound sculpture, part of NO MORE SILENCE - ART STAYS FESTIVAL 2020, Ptuj City Gallery, Ptuj, Slovenia (2020); Tuuumultum! A small atlas of art and music from the Mart Museum’s collections, curated by N. Boschiero and D. Dogheria, Casa d’Arte Futurista Depero – Mart, Rovereto, Italy (2019); Future Humanity – Our Shared Planet, curated by L. Daehyung, Q. Zhijie, M. Honzik, H. Motorstudio, Beijing, China (2018); Hors les Murs, FIAC Foire internationale d’art contemporain, Jardines des Tuileries, Paris, France (2018); Monologue for Two, curated by A. Possati, School of the Art Institute of Chicago MacLean Ballroom, Chicago Architecture Biennal, Chicago, USA (2017); Artissima Telephone, curated by I. Bonacossa and V. Martini, OGR, Turin, Italy (2017); Handapparate, curated by H. Jagersberger and D. Bevilacqua, Atelierhaus Salzamt, Linz, Austria (2017); Monologues, EXPO CHICAGO, Special Exhibitions program, curated by S. Cristello, Navy Pier, Chicago, USA (2016); TILL IT’S GONE, curated by Ç. Bafra and P. Colombo, Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey (2016); Focus on Sound, curated by A.L. Chamboissier, LOOP fair, Barcelona, Spain (2015); Ritornello, curated by K. Oberrauch, Darb 1718 Contemporary Center, Cairo, Egypt (2015); Ondertussen: Eavesdropping, curated by M. Marangoni, Stroom Fundation, The Hague, The Netherlands (2012); 60×60 Images, curated by F. Agostinelli, Academy of Fine Arts, Cincinnati, USA (2011).
