Massimiliano Pironti Explained

Massimiliano Pironti (born 22 December 1981 in Colleferro, Province of Rome) is an Italian painter and former actor, singer and dancer.[1] [2]

Life

As an autodidact he learned to paint, after he began studies in singing, classical ballet, modern and contemporary dance and earned a reputation initially in Italy and later in Germany as a musical performer. Since 2018 he is a painter of international reputation, especially in Great Britain, Germany and Italy. His focus is to represent the inner life of the human figure and to tell the story of peoples lives.[3] [4]

He came to fame as the 11th winner of the Italian National Prize "[5] Massimini" as best musical and light opera performer 2008[6]

In March 2018, the jury of the BP Award 2018 selected Massimiliano's oil painting A throne in the West among 48 submissions. A throne in the West was part of the BP Portrait Award 2018 special exhibit at the National Portrait Gallery, London.[7] In 2019 Pironti won the third prize of "the art world's most prestigious portrait prize"[8] the BP Portrait Award 2019 in the 30th jubilee edition with a portrait entitled Quo vadis? of his 95 years old grandmother and the second prize of the visitor's choice from the NPG London.[9] [10] This competition is the world's biggest for portrait painting.[11] On the occasion of the 250th jubilee of the poet Friedrich Hölderlin Pironti painted his interpretation of Hölderlin for the permanent collection of the Hölderlin Museum in Lauffen a. N. /Germany, in the house of Hölderlin's birth.[12] A copy of the painting was presented to Pope Francis, who gratefully honored the painting and museum with greetings and reflections about the poet.[13]

In 2021 Massimiliano was commissioned by HRH The Prince of Wales to paint the portrait of Holocaust survivor Arek Hersh, as part of the project-exhibition “Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust”. The portrait, part of the Royal Collection, is on display at The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace and at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse, in Edinburgh. Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales, now HM King Charles III and Duchess Camilla, now Queen Camilla, unveiled the display at the Queen's Gallery, today King's Gallery, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2022.[14]

Massimiliano created and donated a symbol of peace to the international project of peace and reconciliation "Peacebells for Europe", which was in 2023 shown in a cinema documentary.

His painting "Quo vadis?" was bought in 2023 from "The Friends of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart" for the permanent collection of the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Germany and is on display in the Otto Dix hall.[15]

Appearances

Works

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Massimiliano Pironti pittore: artista a 360°. Scopriamolo in un'intervista (esclusiva). 2017-03-03. de.
  2. Web site: La Nonna. Preuss. Susanne. 30 October 2018. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung für Deutschland. https://archive.today/20181030093230/http://www.faz.net/aktuell/. 30 October 2018. bot: unknown. 30 October 2018.
  3. 2021-04-11. Massimiliano Pironti: Hyperreality. The finer Details of History. Trebuchet Art Magazin. 7. 80–87.
  4. Web site: Massimiliano Pironti. 2017-02-16. Ribel. de. https://web.archive.org/web/20130702231524/http://www.massimilianopironti.com/bio.htm. 2013-07-02. dead.
  5. Web site: Associazione Internazionale dell'Operetta - Friuli Venezia Giulia. 2017-05-07. Opera of Trieste - International Association of Light Opera. https://web.archive.org/web/20170507175042/http://www.triesteoperetta.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=13&Itemid=16. 2017-05-07. bot: unknown. 2017-05-07.
  6. Web site: Associazione Internazionale dell'Operetta - Friuli Venezia Giulia. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  7. Web site: National Portrait Gallery announces shortlist for BP Portrait Award 2018 . 2018-04-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20180411025932/https://www.bp.com/en_gb/united-kingdom/media/press-releases/national-portrait-gallery-announces-shortlist-for-bp-portrait-award-2018.html . 2018-04-11 .
  8. Brown. Mark. 29 April 2019. Image of artist's grandmother shortlisted for BP portrait award. The Guardian.
  9. Web site: Revealed: the four BP Portrait Award finalists . 2019-04-29 . BBC . https://web.archive.org/web/20190429194128/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48092573 . 2019-04-29.
  10. Web site: Prize Winners . https://web.archive.org/web/20191105195437/https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2019/exhibition/prize-winners/ . 2019-11-05 . 2019-04-11 . NPG.
  11. Web site: National Portrait Gallery, London, BP Award 2018. 2018-04-10.
  12. Web site: Pironti's interpretation of Friedrich Hölderlin presented to Hölderlin Museum. live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201128011234/https://www.hoelderlin2020.de/de/data/blog/60/hoelderlinportraet-des-kuenstlers-massimiliano-pironti-uebergeben.html. 2020-11-28 . Hölderlin 2020 . de.
  13. Web site: Hölderlin and Pope Francis. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122162929/https://www.hoelderlin2020.de/de/data/blog/88/hoelderlin-und-papst-franziskus.html . 2021-01-22 . Hölderlin 2020 . de.
  14. Web site: Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust. https://web.archive.org/web/20220129121828/https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/seven-portraits-surviving-the-holocaust/the-queens-gallery-buckingham. 2022-01-29. Royal Collection Trust.
  15. Web site: Wasserbäch . Anja . 2023-04-23 . Die Oma bleibt in Stuttgart . https://web.archive.org/web/20240308094337/https://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/inhalt.pirontis-gemaelde-kommt-ins-kunstmuseum-die-oma-bleibt-in-stuttgart.c2c83c52-418e-4639-9cb8-a6b9233c3fc4.html . 2024-03-08 . 2023-04-23 . Stuttgarter Zeitung . bot: unknown .
  16. Web site: Massimiliano Pironti nello spettacolo "Collezione privata" - YouTube. YouTube. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  17. Web site: FILM: Passo a Due (2005), di Andrea Barzini. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  18. Web site: Tre metri sopra il cielo - Lo spettacolo di Federico Moccia-Mauro Simone regia Mauro Simone a Torino. dead. 2017-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218165257/http://www.teatro.it/spettacoli/alfieri/tre_metri_sopra_il_cielo_lo_spettacolo_204_4891. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  19. Web site: è Massimiliano Pironti il nuovo Peter Pan. dead. 2017-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218170009/http://www.teatro.it/rubriche/news/massimiliano_pironti_il_nuovo_peter_pan_15972. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  20. Web site: MASSIMILIANO PIRONTI: QUANDO UN SOGNO TI METTE CON LE SPALLE AL MURO. dead. 2017-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218170318/http://www.teatro.it/rubriche/eventi-lazio/massimiliano_pironti_quando_un_sogno_ti_mette_con_le_spalle_al_muro_27558. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  21. Web site: Flashdance - Stage Entertainment. 2017-02-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218170609/https://www.stage-entertainment.com/productions/v2mr8LvJ3Y6WV/. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  22. Web site: La Febbre del Sabato Sera - Il Musical - Stage Entertainment. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de. https://web.archive.org/web/20170218171506/https://stage-entertainment.com/productions/rJ5RRJL67N7E/. 2017-02-18. dead.
  23. Web site: The Best of Musical regia di Chiara Noschese [Trieste .Com]]. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  24. Web site: "Come Erika e Omar", arriva il "diversamente musical" firmato Enzo Iacchetti - Teatro/Danza - Spettacoli - Repubblica.it. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  25. Web site: DA VENERDÌ SU AGON CHANNEL PARTE "CHANCE", IL TALENT SHOW DI VERONICA MAYA CHE FA CONCORRENZA ALLA CARRÀ TvZoom. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  26. Web site: Artists Disneys Musical TARZAN Musicals in Oberhausen Metronom Theater Tickets, Karten und Gutscheine. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  27. News: Revealed: the four BP Portrait Award finalists . 29 April 2019 . BBC News . https://web.archive.org/web/20190429181107/https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48092573 . 29 April 2019 . live.
  28. News: News in pictures: Thursday September 10, 2020 . The Times.
  29. News: Survivors of the Holocaust. BBC News. 27 January 2022. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20220129181821/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-60088598. 2022-01-29.
  30. Web site: Zimmermann . Lothar . 2022-02-17 . Gemälde für Prinz Charles . dead . 2024-03-08 . youtube . 2024-03-08 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240308100336/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHDhmCiFjGA .
  31. Web site: Zimmermann . Lothar . Porträt der Großmutter . https://web.archive.org/web/20240308101458/https://www.swr.de/swr2/kunst-und-ausstellung/portraet-der-grossmutter-massimiliano-pirontis-quo-vadis-100.html . 2024-03-08 . 2023-04-21 . SWR . bot: unknown .
  32. Web site: Peacebells for Europe . https://web.archive.org/web/20240308103220/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt29376946/ . 2024-03-08 . IMDb . 2024-03-08 . bot: unknown .
  33. Web site: Massimiliano Pironti nello spettacolo "Collezione privata" - YouTube. YouTube. 2017-02-18. 2017-02-18. de.
  34. Web site: London Exhibition. 2018-04-10.
  35. Web site: Massimiliano Pirontis homepage.
  36. Web site: BP Portrait Award 2019 - Shortlisted Artists. 29 April 2019. National Portrait Gallery . https://web.archive.org/web/20190429175709/https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2019/shortlist/. 29 April 2019.
  37. Web site: Pironti's Friedrich Hölderlin presented to the Hölderlin Museum. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20201128052632/https://hoelderlin2020.de/de/data/blog/60/hoelderlinportraet-des-kuenstlers-massimiliano-pironti-uebergeben.html. Hölderlin 2020. 2020-11-28.
  38. Web site: 2022-01-29. Seven Portraits: Surviving the Holocaust. https://web.archive.org/web/20220129121828/https://www.rct.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/seven-portraits-surviving-the-holocaust/the-queens-gallery-buckingham. Royal Collection Trust. 2022-01-29.