Born in 1973, Michele de Agostini graduated in 1998 from the Cordenons Art Institute (IT).

Then, in 2002, after a brief creative wandering, touching on several artistic disciplines (fresco making, sculpture and painting symposiums, comics, illustrations and even singer in a rock band) he moved to Paris in search of a new experience.

 
His work is an interplay between the building action of matter and the erasure of the same, through the use of unorthodox tools, such as plasterer's spatulas, plexiglass sheets, knives and paintbrushes too. He thus symbolises the dynamics of Chaos's equilibrium within a natural, material, chromatic, structural and contextual aesthetic: an eternal wondering, not about why, but about how.

The anthropophagous theme is often a pretext for a visceral and spontaneous doubt, totally in coherence with the brutal values of a being in survival.

 "We are a system, trying, as best as we can, to survive."

His choice for abstract language is dictated by a very simple observation: In Art, the point is not the support or the material, the medium or the technique, but the essential thing is, what lies in the middle, between the void and the products that are going to overwhelm it.

In 2005, with the presentation of his work, he created the Sliding Painting: It is the sliding of tools loaded with material that leaves a trace, the trace of the man: the support being the field on which the palette is composed and gives life to an embryonic composition « in the making ».

 In 2006 the Dermatisme Volontariste was born, a definition with which he theorises his artistic approach.
 

"The sense of colour is channelled into flows of energy that cross the surface and create a network on which gesture, sign and pictorial matter create a combination of multiple effects.

Among these is the marked strength of the illusion of physical depth, within which the artist knows how to capture the observer's gaze and suspend it in a condition of expectation: the magmatic stroke of the brushstroke distends the impasto and projects it into a perspective yet to come, but one that is close to materialising in the magic of a harmonic balance in which everything, although gushing forth from the artist's mind with expressionistic fervour, seems to be arranged according to a project aimed at harmony and balance of the various compositional elements.

Michele De Agostini's poetics certainly has a distant naturalistic matrix, which during his research in recent years has become innervated with an awareness of creative processes and substance of thought.

Enzo Santese

Exhibitions

2006
Fiera dell'arte a Ste Savine a Troyes - Aube FranciaFiera dell'arte a Trouville, Calavados - NormandiaMostra Collettiva presso Sala Barna con la Art Batik Group - Barcellona Spagna

2007
Inaugurazione DM ART STUDIO atelier- show room a Fréjus, Var - Francia
Mostra presso La Galerie Multi Arts a Peyruis - Provenza Francia
Mostra Dipinti e sculture presso Salon de Mai à Seillans - Provenza Francia
Fiera dell'Arte a St Rémy de Provence - Francia
Esposizione presso il Salone del Sm'Art d'Aix en Provence Francia
Salone della pittura e scultura a Longchamp - Francia
Mostra personale presso la Galerie Dominicaine Nice-Francia
Mostra personale a Saint Raphaël - Costa Azzurra Francia

2008
Mostra presso il Palzzo del Festival di Cannes - Francia
Conferenza sul mondo dell'arte contemporanea presso il Rotary Club di Saint Raphael - Francia
Pubblicazione rivista Via Magazine Saint Tropez - Francia
Mostra personale presso Sala d'Onore a Saint Raphaël - Francia

2009
Vendita d'Asta pubblica presso Cannes - Enchéres - Cannes Francia
Mostra presso Spazio Arre Mercedes, Garage International de Roquebrune sur Argens  Francia
Mostra collettiva a Sanvito in Fiore presso Castello SanVito al Tagliamento - Italia

2010
Mostra Personale presso Abbazia Benedettina a Sesto al Reghena (PN) - Italia
Vendita d'Asta pubblica presso Arles - Francia

2011
Fiera dell'Arte Contemporanea Bam Gallery Toulouse Molieres Arnaud
Mostra italiana per il 150° Anniversario dell'Unità D'Italia. Mostra organizzata da BAM Gallery in collaborazione con la DANTE ALIGHIERI di Montauban, Le Consulat d’Italie de Toulouse et la TARTAGLIA ARTE di Roma, presentazione delle opere di Piero Tartaglia, Renzo Marinelli, Pier Toffoletti, Emanuele Biagioni, Michele De Agostini e Romano Zanotti. Pordenone - Italia
Mostra personale presso Galleria D'Arte L'Escale Spilimbergo - Italia

2012
Personale presso BAM Gallery
Galleria Tartaglia Roma “Forme ed espressioni”

2013
BAM GALLERY Esposizione Francia-Cina. Dodicesima Edizione - Shangai-Chine

2014
BAM GALLERY "Visioni Italiane" Collettiva con: M. De Agostini, P. Tartaglia, P. Toffoletti, S. Agosti, E. Biagioni.
Salone Internazionale Artisti Contemporanei - Saint Tropez - Francia
Performance con Paolo Cossi - Bibione - Italia
Incontri nella Valle del Vento. Meduno (PN) Italia
Collettive e Museo Shanghai presso BAM Gallery(link)
Aprile: apertura atelier S. Raphael
Mulhouse Salon Art3F

2015
Salon D'Automne - Champs Elysèes - Concorde - Parigi - 15-18 ottobre
Exposition collective MOMA Tokyo
Salon de Noel - @ Dream Street Gallery - Le Lavandou (FR) - dicembre
Fund Forum - Lugano - @ Art Meet - novembre (manda loc cri)
Vernissage ArtFloor - dal 15-16 dicembre - Le Marais - Parigi @ Galerie Joseph
Mostra Minimalia - dal 19 dicembre fino al 14 gennaio - Udine (IT)
Grand salon d’art abordable a là Bellevillois Paris
Salon ARTSHOPPING Carrousel de Louvre Parigi
Mostra Panoramarte Palazzi espositivi della provincia di Pordenone in Corso Garibaldi
Salon ARTSHOPPING Nizza
Salon ARTSHOPPING Carrousel de Louvre Parigi
Salon D'Automne - Champs Elysèes - Concorde - Parigi
Salon de Noel - @ Dream Street Gallery - Le Lavandou (FR)
Fund Forum - Lugano - @ Art Meet
Vernissages ArtFloor - Le Marais - Parigi @ Galerie Joseph
Mostra Minimalia Udine (IT)

2016
Arte & BCC - Banca di azzano decimo Pordenone ( IT )
POESIE & FRIENDS collettiva - Remanzacco-Udine ( IT )
Casino Barriere De Frejus

2017
Primée par le Jury section peinture au SALON D’ART CONTEMPORAIN RODEZ

2019
MELTING POT OF ART, Castello di GUARDIA-PORCIA -PN - ( IT )

2020
Mostre virtuale, Collettiva d’arte contemporanea -SABRINA FALZONE

2022
Personale al Palazzo comunale a La Reole - GIRONDE

2023
ART3F -TOLOSA
Collettiva CENTRE D’ART ARKADE AUVILLAR ( 82340 )
Ouverture Atelier Le Séchoir a Bourdelles (33190)