bio and cv
Federico Errante lives and works between Vicenza and Barcelona.
After a career as a fashion designer, he has devoted himself to contemporary art since 1994, initially as a sculptor and painter.
TECHNIQUE : In 2003 he invented the Soft Bubble: a new technique between sculpture and painting that traps air in a rubbery, flexible and resistant material. In particular, the Soft Bubble offers people the possibility of touching it and pressing it delicately with their hands, allowing them to interact with its volume without compromising its shape.
RESEARCH : Federico Errante investigates the major environmental, ethical and social issues (such as air, water and land pollution, climate change, human rights, capitalism…) that are becoming increasingly urgent in the new millennium, together with a biographical work that documents the traces left by this era.
CRITIC : Philippe Daverio became interested in the Soft Bubble in 2010 and organized a solo exhibition of Errante in Milan in 2011, during which the Soft Bubble Room was presented.
FULL BIOGRAPHY
Federico Errante (1949) lives and works between Vicenza and Barcelona.
With a musical education and a consolidated multi-decade career in the fashion field, both in manufacturing and as a designer, he approaches art in 1986, designing a giant hologram and later creating the first wearable bustier sculptures.
Since the 90s he has mainly dealt with figurative sculpture, combining different materials of complex workmanship, such as walnut and cherry wood, blown glass, stone, marble, bronze and aluminum, and carries on a parallel path on painting and color.
After a long experimentation, in 2003 he created the Soft Bubble and thus arrived at a sort of air sculpture with a tactile and malleable material that inflates and deflates with the pressure of a finger.
Like a new skin, the Soft Bubble embraces everyday presences and industrial objects that have somehow nourished our existence, preserving their vital space in a precious empty cocoon, where they continue to live and breathe despite their absence.
Thus he began to write a biography of our time, on which he grafts his own autobiography, studded with moments of minimalist synthesis and profound reflection alternating with moments of ethical, social and environmental denunciation with more striking tones.
In 2010 he met the interest of the historian and art critic Philippe Daverio.
In 2011 Daverio organizes the first personal exhibition on Errante’s Soft Bubble, “La guaina molle” at Superstudio Più in Milan, delegating his presentation to Jean Blanchaert for health reasons.
To this day, Federico Errante continues to work on the evolutionary line of the Soft Bubble.
Federico Errante has exhibited in galleries and museums in Europe and United States, he has created public works and won awards.
His works are present in private collections in Italy, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and in United States.
ARTISTIC JOURNEY
- 1986: He presents a giant hologram at the Science Fiction and Fantasy Film Festival in Rome, IT
- 1987: He creates his first wearable sculptures and bustiers in walnut wood blades, exploring other textile and natural materials.
- 1994-2005: Figurative sculpture.
- 1998-2005: Figurative, monochromatic and colour veils painting.
- 2003: He creates the Soft Bubble as a new artistic language.
- 2010: He directs the first artistic research video.
- Today: He is still working with Soft Bubble, mixed media and videomaking.
SOLO SHOWS
2000 – TODAY
- 2011: La Guaina Molle (soft bubble), MyOwnGallery by Superstudio Più – Milano (Italy) / curated by Marzia Perotta, presentation by Jean Blanchaert for Philippe Daverio
>> https://1995-2015.undo.net/it/mostra/128647 - 2004: Hunting on Horse, Fieracavalli – Verona (Italy) / presentation by Natale Callipari + meeting Il cavallo nell’arte
- 2003: Time Projection, Galleria Ca’ d’Oro – Roma (Italy)
- 2002: Oltre l’ostacolo, Municipal Hall – Predazzo (Trento, Italy) / presentation by Sergio Camin
- 2002: Palazzo del Frontone – Orbetello (Grosseto, Italy)
- 2002: Galleria d’arte La Borgognona – Roma (Italy)
- 2001: Federico Errante, Giampaolo Tomassetti. Tauromenion, Del Carmine Church + Grand Hotel Timeo – Taormina (Messina, Italy)
- 2001: Galleria Tarchiani – Firenze (Italy)
- 2001: Sintesi metropolitana, Municipal Hall Spazio Arte – Sovizzo (Vicenza, Italy) / presentation by Alda Miolo
>> http://www.sovizzopost.it/sp/sp004.pdf - 2000: Natura morta metropolitana, The Grand Opera House – Wilmington, Delaware (USA) / Presentation
- 2000: ERRANTE. Fuga dal futuro, MUNDA Museo Nazionale d’Abruzzo at the Forte Spagnolo – L’Aquila / texts by Fausto Ianni, Enrico Kotterl + official presentation of Natura morta metropolitana
- 2000: Bacco in Val d’Ambra, Galleria Sergio Carpini at the Centro Culturale Villa La Selva – Firenze (Italy) / presentation by Sergio Carpini
- 2000: Galleria Il Secondo Rinascimento – Ferrara (Italy) / presentation by Gabriele Turola
- 2000: The game of matter, Palazzo del Frontone – Orbetello (Grosseto)
BEFORE 2000
- 1999: Cronomorfosi, Studio Art Gallery – Bassano (Vicenza, Italy) / presentation by Federico Bonan
- 1999: Jaguar Motors – Vicenza (Italy)
- 1999: Palazzo del Frontone – Orbetello (Grosseto, Italy)
- 1998: Golf Club – Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- 1998: Federico Errante. Analysis, Cercle Münster – Luxembourg (Luxembourg) / presentation by Marianne Eisen
- 1998: Analysis, Residence Lido – Cesenatico (Forlì-Cesena, Italy) / presentation by Maurizio Marini and Orlando Piraccini
- 1997: Cesenatico (Forlì-Cesena, Italy)
- 1997: Empoli (Firenze, Italy)
- 1996: Galleria Tarchiani – Lastra a Signa (Firenze, Italy)
- 1995: Villa Grande – Vicenza (Italy)
GROUP SHOWS
2000 – TODAY
- 2012: Color messages in Italy, National Gallery of Art of Ukraine – L’viv (Ukraine)
>>https://www.esteri.it/it/sala_stampa/archivionotizie/approfondimenti/2012/05/20120509_kievgiorn/ - 2012: The Soft Bubble Room, on the occasion of Miniartextil 2012 Agorà – sites specifics installations, Villa Olmo – Como (Italy) / curated by Luciano Caramel
>> https://www.exibart.com/evento-arte/agora-2012-miniartextil/ - 2011: 54a Biennale Internazionale d’Arte di Venezia, Turin Pavillion – Torino (Italy) / curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
- 2010: I sette peccati capitali, Salone Dei Marmi – Salerno (Italy) / curated by Amarte (Salerno)
- 2010: Museo Diocesano – Mantova (Italy) / curated by Amarte (Salerno)
- 2009: Terraferma, Spazio Fenice – Venezia (Italy) / text by Mario Guderzo
- 2005: Art Court Gallery – Parigi (France)
- 2004: Salon Des Artistes Indépendants, Grand Palais – Paris (France)
- 2004: Salon d’Art Contemporain en Aquitaine, Parc des Expositions – Bordeaux (France)
- 2003: Maestri della pittura e della scultura veneta, Officina d’arte – Verona (Italy) / presentation by Caesar Biasini Wild
- 2002: Art Mirror of Times, Torre Strozzi – Parlesca (Perugia – Italy)
- 2001: Accadimenti Giubilari – Roma (Italy)
- 2000: A World of Latin Artists. Lands, People and Passions, Delaware Art Museum – Wilmington, Delaware (USA) / presentation by Riccardo Stoeckicht
BEFORE 2000
- 1999: Moment coulturel ou course- Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
- 1999: Art Expo, trade show – Roma (Italy)
- 1999: Seleart, trade show – Novegro (Milano – Italy)
- 1999: Premio Pavia Arte – Pavia (Italy)
- 1999: Premio Remo Brindisi – Termoli (Italy)
- 1999: Premio La Telaccia – Torino (Italy)
- 1998: Biennale Italia Dimensione 2000 – Luxembourg (Luxembourg) / by Ferrari Auto stand
- 1998: Expo Arte Montichiari, trade show – Montichiari (Brescia Italy)
- 1997: Les artistes sur la Côte d’Azur – Nice (France)
- 1997: II Biennale arte contemporanea – Firenze (Italy)
- 1997: Geant Art, trade show – Bruges (Belgium) / by Galleria Palma Arte stand (Saliceto – Piacenza, Italy)
- 1997: Arte Padova, art fair – Padova / by Galleria Palma Arte stand (Saliceto – Piacenza, Italy)
- 1997: Premio Accademia Italiana Gli Etruschi – Vada (Livorno, Italy)
- 1996: Biennale di Arte Sacra (sculpture Domo my destiny with the power of the Soul) – Cesenatico (Forlì-Cesena, Italy)