Chiara Dynys

Chiara Dynys, Enlightening Books, 2011 - 2021, sculpture, glass, colours, light

2021

Chiara Dynys (Mantova, 1958) lives and works in Milan. Since the beginning of her activity, at the early 90's, she has worked on two main directions, both referable to a single attitude towards to a single attitude towards reality: identifying in the world and in the shapes the presence the presence and the sense of anomaly, of the variant, of the "threshold" that allows the mind to pass from human reality to pass from human reality to a metaphysical scenario. To do this, she uses apparently eclectic materials, ranging from light to glass, to mirrors, to ceramics, castings, fabric, video, photography, and metals. Chiara Dynys has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in major museums and museums and public and private cultural institutions. The most notable ones were held at Palazzo Maffei, Verona 2021; Villa e Collezione Panza, Varese 2021; Mattatoio Testaccio, Rome 2019; Museo Correr, Venice 2019; ICAE Armenia, Erevan 2018; Arkhangelskoye - VII Moscow Biennale, Moscow 2017; Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan 2013; Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome 2010¸ ZKM - Museum fur Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe 2009; Museo Carlo Bilotti - Aranciera di Villa Borghese, Rome 2008; Rotonda di Via Besana, Milan 2007; Museum Bochum, Bochum 2003; Galerie de France 2, Paris 1993; CIAC, Montrèal 1997; Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint’Etienne 1992. Also, her works are part of many International and Italian Collections including: '900 Museum, Milan; Civiche Raccolte d'Arte, Milan; Panza Villa and Collection, Varese; ZKM - Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe; MASI Museum Lugano; MUVE Museums, Fortuny Palace, Venice; GNAM – Nation Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rome; MAGA – Art Museum Gallarate, Gallarate; Musum Central State Archive Rome; Danna e Giancarlo Olgiati Collection, Lugano; Palazzo Maffei Casa Museo, Verona; UBS Collection, Milan, Manno, Zurich; Banca Intesa San Paolo Collection, Milan; MART – Museum of Modern and Contmeporary Art of Rovereto, Rovereto; VAF-Stiftung, Frankfurt; Kunstasammlung, Weimar; Atel Energia, Milan; Medrisio Architecture Academy Collection, Mendriso; Terna Energia, Rome; Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno Foundation, Foligno; Mobimo AG Collection, Zurich; Rocco Guglielmo Foundation, Catanzaro; Poldi Pezzoli Museum, Milan; Roberto Bilotti Ruggi d'Aragona Contemporary Art Museum, Rende; Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation; Anna Rosa e Giovanni Cotroneo Collection, Rome; Rocco Guglielmo per il Parco delle Biodiversità foundation, Catanzaro; Giovanni Alliata di Montereale Collection, Venice.