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Federico Carminati · Eeek! An artist! — Painter

Figurative images like the pieces of a rebus: the doubts of existence, painted in toothpaste, papier-mâché, LED lights, epoxy resin. The key, often, lies in the eye of the observer.

Works

About

Portrait of Federico Carminati

Federico Carminati, born in Bergamo on 13 November 1981. Let me introduce myself: I work as a lawyer to make a living, and to survive this convoluted world I paint whatever my mind deems worthy of note — with a preference, in any case, for figurative art.

In my works I try to represent the doubts that assail me about existence, joining the images my mind presents to me as if composing a rebus — often hard to understand even for me. That is why the key of interpretation the observer brings to my works gives me a cue, and a help, in reading the messages I send.

I am a self-taught painter and I use mixed techniques and unusual materials such as epoxy resins, toothpaste, salvaged objects, papier-mâché and LED lights.

Artist statement

I paint doubts, not answers. Often it is the eye of the observer that hands me the key to the rebus: the interpretation of what I myself have composed on the canvas.

Federico Carminati’s studio, with easel and canvases in progress

Exhibitions

Past

ARTMUC Art Fair

Art fair — München, 2025

Galleria Borgo d'Oro, via Borgo Santa Caterina 33

Solo exhibition — Bergamo, 2024

STarT Art Fair

Art fair — King's Cross Town Hall, London, 2024

Nonsostare

Group exhibition — Galleria Duepuntozero, via Fratelli Calvi 1/D, Bergamo, 2023

First prize

Impronte d'arte

Group exhibition — Galleria Duepuntozero, via Fratelli Calvi 1/D, Bergamo, 2022

Artisti all'asta con Incanto

Group exhibition — Studio d'Arte, via San Tomaso, Bergamo, 2022

Art2Night — La Notte Bianca dell'Arte

Event — Bergamo, 2021

Camera Oscura mentale

Solo exhibition — Maria Pandora, Plaza de Gabriel Miró 1, Madrid, 2021

Quel che resta del Covid.. Assenze

Upperlab, via Pescaria 1, Bergamo, 2021

Artistic Autopsies

Studio d'Arte Monteleone, via San Tomaso 92, Bergamo, 2020

Centro culturale Artistika

Solo exhibition — Comun Nuovo (BG), 2017

Contact

“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

Edward Hopper

For everything else, words work just fine: write to me.

Studio
Bergamo, Italy