Umberto Cavenago
Who they are
Umberto Cavenago, born in Milan and working in Switzerland since the first decade of the 2000s, is a sculptor who works on the border between art and design. His works, often in steel and mounted on wheels, are unique pieces deliberately without function: forms that move, or could move, and that reject the rhetoric of the monument. In recent years they have become spaces to inhabit, which the viewer enters and completes with their presence, like Souvenir di montagna on the Maloja Pass.
He has exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 1990, the Johannesburg Biennale in 1995 and the São Paulo Biennial in 1996, where he represented Italy, as well as in museums and art centres across Europe. Since 2015 he has run NoPlace, an exhibition that grows through chains of invitations, without curators. His website is a catalogue raisonné in progress: it records his works from 1985 to today, with images, projects and critical texts.
Umberto Cavenago, Nairobi roller skates, 2022
Image: cavenago.info
What they do with Artistwall
With Artistwall Cavenago presents more than 150 works in chronological order, each with images of its different settings and stages of production and with texts by authors and critics. Two timelines tell the projects «Sweet Home» and «Souvenir di montagna». The website is in three languages: Italian, English and German.
Visit the website: cavenago.info