1. Massimo Agostinelli was born on 25 September 1987 and is a Switzerland-based Italian American artist, businessman and activist who uses text, word play and found objects in his works with a particular focus on interventions.
11 Facts About Massimo Agostinelli
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Massimo Agostinelli's father is Robert Agostinelli an Italian American billionaire financier, his mother is Pascale Gallais, a Parisian Greek sculptor.
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Back in London, Massimo Agostinelli became an apprentice printmaker and type setter.
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Massimo Agostinelli's Anagrams examined pop-culture icons by morphing their names into anagrams by means of lenticular printing.
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In 2016 and 2019 Massimo Agostinelli was selected by Simon de Pury to exhibit at Dallas Contemporary for the MTV Staying Alive Foundation with Enoc Perez and Marc Quinn curated by Neville Wakefield.
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Massimo Agostinelli is among the permanent private collection of the Alpina Gstaad as well as a founding patron of the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa.
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Massimo Agostinelli has worked with various philanthropic organisations including, AmfAR, UNICEF, Caudwell Children, Innocence In Danger and the Laureus Foundation.
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Artnet praised the institutional critique performance art installation by stating; Massimo Agostinelli "turned trash cans into treasure", while Vanity Fair drew reference to Duchamp.
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Massimo Agostinelli returned to the fair in 2018 during the VIP opening, planting a basil plant in the Gagosian Gallery booth directly in front of a John Chamberlain sculpture flanked by Roy Lichtenstein and Mark Rothko works.
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In 2019 Massimo Agostinelli staged his third consecutive site-specific conceptual art installation at Art Basel.
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Massimo Agostinelli said his initial inspiration derived from examining the Parthenon Frieze from the Acropolis of Athens at the British Museum.