Giovanni Becagli

Tide Line I

2024

Oil on linen

120 × 90 cm

Price on request
Tide Line I

Tide Line I

2024

Oil on linen

120 × 90 cm

Price on request

Tide Line II

2024

Oil on linen

120 × 90 cm

Price on request

Underbridge

2023

Mixed media

150 × 200 cm

Price on request

Salt Study

2023

Pigment on board

60 × 60 cm

Price on request

Hinge

2022

Oil and rust

80 × 100 cm

Price on request

Port at Night

2022

Oil on canvas

90 × 140 cm

Price on request

Dock

2021

Acrylic

100 × 100 cm

Price on request

Low Water

2021

Oil on linen

70 × 90 cm

Price on request

Residue

2020

Mixed media

110 × 85 cm

Price on request

Painter and installation artist based in Genoa.

Personal statement

My practice begins with the overlooked — a rusted hinge, a tide line, the underside of a bridge. I treat these as fragments of a larger civic body, translating them into surfaces that hold both decay and tenderness.

Biography

Giovanni Becagli

Working between painting and installation, the studio explores memory, landscape, and the residue of industrial labour. Recent work pairs pigment-heavy canvases with found objects collected across northern ports.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibition

Tide Lines

Galleria Continua

Mar 2024 - May 2024

Solo exhibition

Underbridge

Studio La Città

Sep 2022 - Oct 2022

Solo exhibition

Salt

Z2O Sara Zanin

Jan 2021 - Mar 2021

Studio JournalProcess notes and studio fragments.Print ShopLimited-edition prints.
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Group exhibition

Coastlines

PAC

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Group exhibition

Material Witness

MAMbo

Apr 2022 - Jul 2022

Group exhibition

Northern Light

Fondazione Sandretto

Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

Institutional

Institutional exhibition

Ports of Call

Palazzo Ducale

Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

Institutional exhibition

Industry & Memory

GAM

Feb 2023 - May 2023

Institutional exhibition

The Working Sea

MART

Oct 2022 - Jan 2023

Collections

public

Port at Night

Turin

2023

Awards

  • 2022Cantica21 Italian Contemporary Art PrizeMAECI

Residencies

ResidencyBocconi Art ResidencyFondazione Bocconi · Milan
ResidencyNordic Studio ExchangeKonstepidemin · Gothenburg
ResidencyDockyard ResidencyPorto Antico · Genoa

Education

  • 2014-2016MFA, PaintingAccademia di Belle Arti
  • 2012Erasmus, PrintmakingHEAD
  • 2010-2013BA, Fine ArtNABA
Newsletter
Occasional dispatches.

Represented by

Galleria ContinuaSan Gimignano, since 2021, non-exclusiveStudio La CittàVerona, since 2019, exclusive

Press & publications

A Painter of the Working SeaArtforum, 2024Studio Visit: Tide LinesFlash Art, 2023The Residue of LabourMousse Magazine, 2022