Carlo Martini exhibits in Galleria Gagliardi since 2025.
Carlo Martini was born in Italy in 1965.
Painting, light and memory of spaces
Carlo Martini is a self-taught visual artist who has made the pictorial representation of abandoned and disused environments his distinctive signature.
His research focuses on the intimacy of places, the evocative power of light and the suspended atmosphere of forgotten architecture.
Over the years, Martini has refined a personal and recognisable pictorial language, capable of transforming empty spaces into narrative scenarios, in which silence becomes the protagonist and light becomes revelation.
His works are situated on the border between reality and memory, rendering a poetic vision of time that passes through buildings and transfigures them.
Since 2012, he has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions, winning national awards such as the Mestre Prize, the Marchionni Prize, the Enegan Art Prize and Malamegi Art Lab.
He has exhibited in public and private venues in Bassano del Grappa, Vicenza, Milan and Martina Franca, where his works have attracted the interest of collectors, curators and galleries.For Martini, painting is an act of listening: every painted surface tells a silent story that asks to be seen, understood and preserved. He is guided by a coherent vision that combines compositional rigour, emotional vibration and constant reflection on the concept of the “inner place”.
In parallel with his painting career, Martini develops digital graphic art projects for publishing and interior design, creating collections such as “Eye x Eye = 64”, “Interferenze”, “Lucky Luke” and “Un Martini, please”.
These works, printed on Fine Art paper and often finished by hand, constitute the parallel line of his “Author's Editions”, conceived for contemporary contexts and design spaces.
Today, Carlo Martini collaborates with art galleries, curators and professionals interested in painting that is capable of enhancing the history of spaces through the language of light and emotion.
His work stems from a genuine urgency: to restore dignity to what has been left behind, transforming emptiness into living memory.
“When I was a child (but even now), I liked to lie on the ground with my stomach up and imagine that the ceilings of the rooms were floors.”
Exhibitions and Competitions
2025
Yicca Prize 2025 – Finalista con “Abandoned living room” – Imagoars Gallery (Venezia)
Collettiva “DIALOGHI NEL TEMPO” Palazzo Ducale di Martina Franca (TA)
2024
Premio Zugliano 2024 – Eccellenza della comunità zuglianese per la cultura
Collettiva “I COLORI DEL SACRO”
Museo Diocesano a Verona
Personale condivisa “SILENZI”
Allianz Assicurazioni a Bassano del Grappa
(nov.2024 / apr.2025)
Personale “SPAZI RIVELATI”
Nival Group a San Giovanni Lupatoto (VR)
Collettiva “TESSERE”
Chiesa San Giovanni a Bassano del Grappa (VI)
Personale c/o Casa Arpège Vicenza a Montebello Vicentino (VI)
Mostra segnalati Concorso di pittura di Zugliano 2023 / Villa Giusti Suman – Zugliano (VI)
“IL BELPAESE” Collettiva Museo Civico Ruzittu – Arzachena (SS)
2023
Premio Enegan Art “Luci nel buio” – Finalista con “Abandoned factory with blue wall” – Palazzo Strozzi (Firenze)
Premio Malamegi Art Lab Rome ’23 – Finalista con “Fiero Admiral” – Roma
16° Premio Pittura Zugliano – Segnalazione di merito con l’opera “Abandoned carpet factory”
Personale Galleria Lazzaro – Milano
Personale – Marano Vicentino (VI)
2022
Collettiva Ca’ La Ghironda – Zola Predosa (BO)
Personale “Agitato… non Mescolato” c/o L’Idea – Vicenza
Collettiva On Art Gallery – Firenze
Premio Mestre 2022 – Finalista con “Are you sure?”
Premio Marchionni 2022 – 1° Classificato con “Admiral Fiero”
2021
Arte Padova presso OperaOttava
Premio Mestre 2021 – Finalista con “Admiral Fiero”
Collettiva “Arte Oltre” – Schio (VI)
2020
Collettiva “Il Volo, il Mito, l’Arte” – Thiene (VI)
2018
Premio Pittura Zugliano – 4° classificato con “Abandoned Factory”
Collettiva – Sestri Levante (GE)
Premio Malamegi Lab Venezia – Finalista con “Lanerossi (scale)”
2017
Premio Nocivelli a Verolanuova (BS) – Finalista con “Old Factory Four”
2016
Premio Nazionale Michelangelo Buonarroti a Seravezza (LU) – 6° classificato con “Iron Bridge”
Concorso di Pittura Zugliano (VI) – 4° classificato con “Iron Bridge”
Concorso Nazionale di pittura Monselice (PD) – 5° classificato con “The electric factory”
2015
Premio Gambino Venezia: 4° classificato con “Il cementificio di Chioggia”
Collaborazione con la Galleria d’Arte “L’Occhio” – Venezia
Personale a Zanè (VI)
Personale a Marano Vicentino (VI)
Evento “I luoghi dell’Abbandono” – Dueville (VI)
Gran Premio Città di Savona: 2° classificato con “Il cementificio di Chioggia”
Personale “ABBANDONI… clolori di un fare perduto” a Bassano del Grappa (VI).
Donazione dell’opera “Concrete Factory” alla Sala dell’Arte Contemporanea dei Musei Civici di Bassano del Grappa.
2014
Premio Pittura Zugliano (VI) – 4° classificato
Premio Pittura Chiuppano (VI) – 3° classificato
Personale “Prospettive in.Ferme” a Thiene (VI)
2012
Premio Pittura Zugliano (VI) – 1° classificato con “Old Factory Zero”
2008
Personale condivisa – Bassano del Grappa (VI)
Personale condivisa – Thiene (VI)
Carlo Martini
Graphic Design and Art