Max Coppeta

Max Coppeta was born in Sarno in 1980, lives and works in Bellona (Caserta). In 2002, he graduated in Scenography from the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, with a thesis on multimedia theatre. The same year he was awarded a scholarship by the Superior Institute of Design in Turin, thanks to which he came into contact with Leonardo Sangiorgi (Studio Azzurro), Pep Gatell (La Fura dels Baus), Carlo Infante (new media expert).

In 2006, he specialized in Visual and Performing Arts at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Parallel to his visual research in the artistic field, he started a Design and Visual Marketing studio in 2001 with important collaborations, such as the one with the Teatro Bellini in Naples, which lasted over ten years. For about three editions he was a juror at the Premio Web Italia, having received numerous awards and mentions in the field of multimedia languages. In 2012, he started a new artistic research entitled ‘Synthetic Rains’: an experiential journey in which he uses chemical products to simulate the mysteries of nature, gaining important exhibition spaces in Houston, Los Angeles, Lancaster, Caracas, València, Singapore, Tokyo, Naples, Milan, Turin and Venice.

He has won numerous awards over the years, including Top Talent Award / Europrix Multimedia Awards (Salzburg, 2004), Turin Book Fair - Scrittura Mutante (Turin, 2003-2005-2007), ADOBE / Macromedia (California, 2005), World Summit Award, e-Content Award Italy (Milan, 2005), PIAFF, Potenza International Animation Film Festival - G. A.I. Giovani Artisti Italiani (Potenza, 2006), PWI - Premio Web Italia, Premio della Critica (Michetti Museum - Chieti, 2006), Roma Design Più, Arts, Design and New Technologies section (Sapienza University of Rome, 2008), E-Content Award Italy - WSA, Create Your Culture! (Milan, 2012), Premio Underground (MSC Crociera Preziosa, 2013), Arte Laguna Prize, Sculpture section (Arsenale di Venezia, 2014).

Main Solo exhibitions:

    • “L’Ultima grande battaglia” (Baccaro Art Gallery, Salerno, 2021)

    • “Sospensioni gravitazionali” (Spazio Amira, Nola, 2021)

    • “Fluxus” (La Artcore Museum, Los Angeles, 2010)

    • “Flow” (Reggia di Caserta, 2018)

    • “Zero Gravity” (Teatro Circulo, Valencia, 2018)

    • “Suspense” (Art In Gallery, Milano, 2016)

    • “Ensemble of Drops”, (Mia&D Fair, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 2014),

    • “Visioni transitorie” (Dirartecontemporanea, Caserta, 2012)

    • “Inedite piogge sintetiche” (Centro d’Arte L’Idioma, Ascoli Piceno, 2012). 

Main group exhibitions:

“Da Kandinsky ai Contemporanei” (Casa Francotto / Busca, Cuneo, 2022), “Incarnati” (Chiesa di San Pietro Apostolo in Aldifreda, Caserta, 2022), “Gli altari dell’arte” (Benevento, 2021), “Trhee Rooms” (Banca Generali, Napoli / Caserta / Salerno, 2019 ), “Disio - Nostalgia del futuro” (La Caja Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, 2017), “Latitude 36.40 / Art 1307” (Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo, 2016), “Step Art Fair” (Fabbrica del Vapore, Milano, 2015), “Premio Cramum” (Palazzo Isimbardi, Milano, 2016), “Arte Laguna Prize” (Arsenale di Venezia, 2014), “HFAF | Houston Fine Art Fair” (Texas, 2013), “European Kinetic Visual Aart & Young Italian Artist” (Los Angeles, 2013), “Reflections” (Milano, 2013), “Luminosity, The Loft at Liz’s / Art 1307” (Los Angeles, 2013).

Publications, articles, interviews:

  • Max Coppeta / Piogge sintetiche

 Antonello Tolve | interview Elena Giulia Rossi

SKIRA Editore / Collana “Arte contemporanea”

version: italian / english | year:2017

    • Max Coppeta / collettività come connettività

Antonello Tolve | Francesco Colace | 

MMMAC edizioni / Collana “I Passeri” Arte, Architettura, Design. N°7

version: italian / english

    • Informatica per le arti visive, la musica e lo spettacolo

Massimo De Santo, Francesco Colace and Paolo Napoletano

McGraw-Hill Libri / Collana: College

    • Videoculture. Storia, teorie ed esperienze artistiche dell’audiovisivo sperimentale

Alfonso Amendola

Tunuè

    • Time at the Time of isolation / Tempo al Tempo dell’isolamento

 Renato and Cynthia Penna / ART1307

 Blurb

english version | Year: 2020