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Memory with Her Teeth Out

an exhibition of my painting students from (AND), JCU, Rome at z2o project, May 2026

This presentation brings together a selection of works by my painting students a week before commencement. Special thanks to the Department of Art and Design (AND), John Cabot University and z2o Projects.

Friday, 13 February 2026

A conversation between curator Davide Ferri and artist Michele Tocca in which they'll discuss the legacy and continuing relevance of Giulio Turcato's pictorial investigations. Click for more: https://fondazionegiuliani.org/news-en/davide-ferri-and-michele-tocca-in-conversation-friday-february-13-at-6-30pm/?lang=en

https://www.z2ogalleria.it/exhibitions/103-alessandro-sarra-curated-by-michele-tocca/

Alessandra Giovannoni.

Volevo metterci il cielo, with text by Michele Tocca

Poca Notte. Readings

On the occasion of the exhibition Michele Tocca. Poca Notte, on Thursday, June 20, 2024 from 6:30 to 8 pm, we will host in the gallery in via Alessandro Volta 34 a talk with readings about the end of the night and the early hours of the day.

Readings include: Philip Larkin, Alice Oswald, Giovanni Pascoli, Alice Munro…

How to become a cloud.

La III B and Michele Tocca

IUNO at Festival de Cabanes

Villa Medici, Rome 2023

IUNO is pleased to present the final presentation of IUNO Studio's annual workshops at the Festival des Cabanes at Villa Medici, Rome.

For IUNO Studio, Michele Tocca has been invited to conduct a workshop with third-graders from the Istituto Comprensivo Dante Alighieri in Rome. Starting with the observation of atmospheric phenomena, an indispensable component of Michele Tocca's artistic research, children were introduced to the practice of painting and representation through a series of exercises meant to stimulate their perceptual and imaginative skills. The workshop was conceived to encourage the development of a new mode of viewing starting with the observation of the sky and clouds, considered no longer just as a "background." 
Through images, stories, legends, and live observation, clouds became a tool through which to begin perceiving the multiple potentialities of the act of seeing and understanding the creative gesture as an expression of ones own gaze.

L’Italia dipinta. A lecture

Professor Emerita Anna Ottani Cavina

GAM, Turin, June 22 2023

Lecture by Professor Emerita Anna Ottani Cavina organized within Michele Tocca. Repoussoir, exh. curated by Elena Volpato, GAM , Turin. The lecture reads Tocca’s work within a lineage of visual archetypes from the history of itinerant and landscape painting.

Visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOburZUPg0M

Roma, a portrait.

Talk. Paesaggi e vedute

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, May 17 2023

Chiara Camoni. Gorge, Bloom, Foliage.

World Above, World Below.

And Small Creatures

IUNO, Rome, April-June 2022

Invited by Chiara Camoni, I planned a walk as an interpretive tool for Chiara’s plates presented during a dinner at IUNO. The walk around IUNO’s neighbourhood in Prati, the district on the northern side of the River Tevere, touched on themes of the wild, the seen and seemed, the inside and the outside, the above and below, departing from the tomb of Emperor Hadrian, the Phrygianum and the cult of Cybeles.

For more and to download the text, visit : https://www.iunoiuno.it/blogs/news/chiara-camoni-forra-fiorame-fogliame-mondo-di-sopra-mondo-di-sotto-e-piccole-creature

Creazione di rituali

Mun ange arte contemporanea,Torino, September 6-8 2021

A three-day seminar with sociologist Gian Antonio Gilli about personal rituals, those totally private rituals created and activated by single individuals (individuals in defective conditions; mistics; ascetics) as opposed to social and collective rituals (i.e. anthopological ones). Themes were: Morphology of rituals; Levels of Symbolization; Rituals and the issue of time. The seminar was held at the Galleria Guido Costa Projects, Turin. main partner of the project, with a day-long excursion to the sculptorally richest wings of the Cimitero Monumentale on the subjects of Posture as Ritual .

Invited artists: Luca Bertolo, Chiara Camoni, Manuele Cerutti, Maria Claudia Farina, Francesca Ferreri, Nicola Genovese, Tom Johnson, Fabrizio Prevedello, Laura Pugno, Alessandro Quaranta, Andrea Respino, Alessandra Spranzi, Michele Tocca, Agata Torelli, Silvia Vendramel.

https://www.munange.it/SEMINARI-1

Dal tramonto all’arte

curated by Saverio Verini, CaLibro Festival, Città di Castello 2021

Words by Fairfield Porter and Jean Hélion I chose for Città di Castello’s book festival

Out Looking Inwards.

Residency at Praksis, Oslo, NO

The residents are: Robert Bordo (CA), Robert Holyhead (UK), Tina Kryhlmann (NO), Patrick McElnea (US), Matthew Musgrave (UK), Sarah Pettitt (UK), Hanneline Rogeberg (NO), Hanna Sjöstrand (SE), Michele Tocca (IT), and Piya Wanthiang (TH/BE).

Painting Project: Out Looking Inwards has been developed with artists Robert Bordo (CA) and Robert Holyhead (UK). The residency is held in collaboration with LNM (The Norwegian Painters Society). For more information on the residency please click here.

Cum aria, cum arguzia

Pesce Khete | Michele Tocca, Ostia Lido, January 2019

Suite of collaborative drawings made with Pesce Khete (partly on “Piccolo Giotto Online”, March 13 2019).