Nicola Evangelisti, born in Bologna in 1972 where he lives and works,
graduated at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Bologna.

Since 1995 he has developed an artistic research, both theoretical and practical, widely experimental, using installations, light-boxes, photography and video, always caring for the theme of light.

In the period 1999-2001 he works on the “crilex” cycle, inner flections on plastic matter by combustion producing light lines similr to the shapes of the fractal graphics, evoking cosmic explosions. This work and its theoretical input are rewarded with recognitions as the “International award Guglielmo Marconi” for which Evangelisti writes “A Proposal for a New Spatial Manifesto”, token tribute to his ideal master Lucio Fontana.

Since 2001 he identifies the mirror as the best medium for his light marks, introducing a strand of research he is still following with many alterations and developments.

In 2002 Evangelisti wins the Targetti Light Art Award with the light box Big Bang, now in the Targetti Art Light Collection. The curator of this collection, exhibited in many international museums as the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, the Centre for Conteporary Art Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw, the Mak in Vienna and the MUAR in Moskow, is Amnon Barzel. Several catalogues of the exhibitions have been made, among them Light Art published by Skira.

The same year Evangelisti spent some months in California to prepare a solo exhibition at the BGH Gallery in Santa Monica where he introduced the monograph “Luminis Ora” encompassing his writing “Fractal Geometry as a New Principle for the Non Figurative Art”.

In 2004 he begins to be involved to the arguments of the Light Art, an art wave arising at international level in that period. In 2005 his work is consolidated by a strong link to the scientific world, proved by the writing of the “Digital Sculpture Project” presented at the Galleria PaciArte Contemporary in Brescia.

In 2008 Evangelisti is invited to the exhibition “De Naarcisse à Alice, miroirs et reflets en question”, organized in Brussels by ISELP (Institut Supérieur pour l’Etude du Language Plastique), together with Giulio Paolini, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Dan Grahan and other international masters.

The same year a solo exhibition, officially recognized as collateral event of the Biennial of Brussels, is held at Galerie Artiscope. Evangelisti artwork is acquired by the Arturo Schwarz collection.

In 2009 he creates, for an event of the Milano General British Consulate on the occasion of Euroluce, LIGHT BLADE, a site specific light installation in the portico of the Villa Reale, house of the GAM (Galleria Arte Moderna). Light Blade will be included in the LIGHT ART IN ITALY CATALOGUE, published by Politecnico of Milan, as one of the most interesting urban light installations of 2009.

In 2010 Evangelisti has been invited to Luminare - Biennale Lighting Culture in Frankfurt where he will exhibit LIGHT PULSE, a light sculpture irradiate by laser beams.

ONE MAN EXHIBITIONS

2010 Perì Photòs, Around the light, PaciArte contemporary, Brescia

2010 Nicola Evangelisti / Marina Giannobi - La Chiarezza e il Labirinto,  Mya Lurgo Gallery, Lugano

2009 “Behind the light”, Dream Factory, Milano

2008 Meccaniche della meraviglia VI, Maglio Averoldi di Ome, Brescia

2008 “Chromocosmica”, Galerie Artiscope, Bruxelles

2007 “Elettrika”, Galleria PaciArte Contemporanea, Brescia

2006 Installazioni luminose, Espace d’art contemporain Villary, Nîmes (Francia)

2004 “Chimere di luce”, Galleria d’arte Serego, Verona

2004 “Light Art”, Galleria d’arte Bergamo, Bergamo

2002 “Luminis ora”, BGH Gallery, Santa Monica (Stati Uniti d’America)

2000 “Nuovo Spazialismo”, Centre culturel “Louis Ratel”, Bievres (Francia)

2000 “Ephemerides - Ong Quy Cong”, Galleria No Code, Bologna

2000 Premio internazionale “Guglielmo Marconi”, Corte Isolani, Bologna

1998 Premio internazionale “Guglielmo Marconi”, Università di Bologna

1997 “Frammenti cosmici”, Schabes Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (Stati Uniti d’America)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 YOU ARE NOT SAFE Museo della musica, Art First OFF, Bologna

2010 Laser, La luce oltre l’orizzonte, Festival della scienza di Genova, Palazzo Ducale Munizioniere a cura di CNR

2010 Luces, (Luminale Biennale Lighting Culture), Museo Archeologico Francoforte, Germania

2010 Here and now, (ArteFiera Bologna) a cura di Julia Draganovic

2009 “Futuro” Festival della Scienza, Palazzo Ducale, a cura del  CNR, Genova

2009 “CLICKING THE COSMOS” Auditorium di santa Chiara, Vercelli

2009 “DOROTHEUM”, Vienna, Austria

2009 “BOX SHOCK – Evangelisti VS di Giovanni, Dream Factory, Milan, Italy

2009 “Premio Internazionale Guglielmo Marconi”, Palazzo d'Accursio, Bologna

2008 “Astralia - Tra astronomia e astrologia”, PaRDeS laboratorio di ricerca d’arte contemporanea, Mirano (Venezia)

2008 “Clicking the territory - Window of light and darkness”, Museo di Arte Contemporanea “Angela Malandra”, Vespolate (Novara)

2008 “De Narcisse à Alice, miroirs et reflets en question”, ISELP (Institut supérieur pour l’étude du langage plastique), Bruxelles

2007 “Conti, Evangelisti, Pansini”, Myartprospects Gallery, New York

2007 “River’s Edge Film Festival”, Maiden Alley Cinema, Market House Theatre e Yeiser Art Center, Paducah (Stati Uniti d’America)

2007 “Orizzonte degli eventi”, Galleria ArtSinergy, Bologna

2006 “Targetti Light Art Collection”, MUAR (Museo Nazionale dell’Architettura), Mosca, Russia

2006 “Viaggio nella fotografia contemporanea”, Gallery PaciArte contemporary, Brescia

2006 “LIGHTS ON”, Galerie Artiscope, Bruxelles, (Belgio)

2006 “Dead line”, Villa Vogel, Firenze

2006 “Video island”, Isola Tiberina, Roma

2006 “Microcosmo vs Macrocosmo”, Gallery PaciArte contemporary, Brescia

2006 “Harlem Art Project”, Saatchi & Saatchi, New York

2006 “Premio Vasto”, Pinacoteca Comunale, Vasto (Chieti)

2006 “Targetti Light Art Collection”, MUAR, Mosca

2006 “Videoformes - Vidéo & nouveaux médias dans l’art contemporain”, Clermont-Ferrand (Francia)

2005 “D.A.B.”, Galleria Civica di Modena2005 “V Premio internazionale di scultura della Regione Piemonte”, Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti, Torino

2005 “Diva Bruxelles”, One Night Video, Bruxelles

2005 “Video Festival”, Galerie Parisud, Parigi

2004 “L’eredità di Fontana”, Borgo medievale di Castelbasso (Teramo)

2004 “Diva Fair”, Digital & Video Fair, New York

2004 “I love 3 T”, Sabatini, Cadriano (Bologna)

2004 “Mehrlicht: Targetti Light Art Collection & James Turrel”, MAK Museum, Vienna

2004 “I love 3 T”, Futurshow, Milano

2004 “Luce vero sole dell’arte”, Museo Bargellini, Cento (Ferrara)

2003 “Targetti Light Art Collection”, Arte Fiera, Bologna

2003 Premio internazionale “Guglielmo Marconi”, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York

2003 “Focusemotionalliving”, Saie Due, Bologna

2003 “Targetti Art Light Collection”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York

2003 Collettiva, Galleria Soligo & C. International Art, Roma

2002 “Focusonthegeniuslocioperandi”, Palazzo Stella, Crespellano (Bologna)

2002 Collettiva, Galleria Santo Ficara, Firenze

2002 “Targetti Art Light Collection”, Arte Fiera, Bologna

2002 Premio internazionale “Guglielmo Marconi”, Università di Bologna

2002 “Targetti Art Light Collection”, Centre for Contemporary Art “Ujazdowski Castle”, Varsavia

2001 “L’oggetto inesistente”, Futurshow, Bologna

2001 “Quotidiana”, Museo civico al Santo, Padova

2000 “Mito e materia - Scultura, altro e oltre”, Borgo medievale di Castelbasso (Teramo)

2000 Premio internazionale “Guglielmo Marconi”, Università di Bologna

2000 “Artisti vari”, Galleria No Code, Bologna

2000 “Piccolo formato”, Bertrand Kass Gallery, Innsbruck (Austria)

1998 "La scultura possibile - Progetti e disegni della Nuova Arte Italiana", Circolo artistico

COLLEZIONI PUBBLICHE

La Sfacciata Lighting Academy, Firenze
Villa Reale, GAM di Milano
Pinto / Xandev Foundation (London – Goa GB)

PREMI

Premio Internazionale Guglielmo Marconi sezione “Nuove Generazioni” 2000
2° Premio sezione "Quadri di Luce"
TARGETTIARTLIGHTAWARD2002
3° premio Aletti ArtVerona 2009