Domenico Ruccia
Domenico Ruccia (1986, Bari) lives and works in Milan.
After completing legal studies, he fully dedicated himself to painting, attending Brera Academy of Fine Arts in 2021.
Ruccia uses painting as a tool to explore the concept of time, reinventing untold events within real historical contexts. Through an interweaving of reality and false history, Ruccia plays with the notion of authenticity, inviting the viewer to embrace humour and emphasising the importance of quotation as a matrix of new reflections. The use of a pre-existing reality also proves crucial in collages and video works, where history is fragmented and reassembled to outline a new vision.
Solo exhibitions include those at Fondazione Mario Moderni (Rome 2017), Chiostro del Bramante (Rome 2018), Il Crepaccio (Milan 2021), Collezione Pallavicini (Pavia 2023), Iperstudio (Viareggio, 2023) and Galleria Renata Fabbri (Milan 2024).
His work has been exhibited in public and private institutions such as Galleria Lorenzelli (Milan 2017), Museo d’Arte Grafica Marchionni (Cagliari 2017), ArtDate (Bergamo 2021), co_atto (Milan 2022), YAG/garage (Pescara 2023), Galleria Arrivada (Milan 2023), Osservatorio Futura (Turin 2023), Galleria Civica Albani (Urbino 2023), Museo Civico di Asiago (2024), Galleria Alessandro Albanese (Matera 2024) and Area/B (Milan 2025).
He is among the artists included in the Quadrenniale di Roma mapping program “Panorama”, with a studio visit by Lorenzo Madaro.
In 2022, he was in residence at VIR Viafarini-in-residence in Milan.