Sculptor · Artist · Educator — Italy
Sculture di filo — linee nello spazio che invitano a colmare un volume solo suggerito
Artist and sculptor working primarily in wire, Carmine Leta creates empty, light, and transparent objects — inviting the observer to fill a volume that is only suggested, and to bring into focus an illusory portion of space between themselves and the Infinite.
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Carmine draws with the wire — sometimes thin, sometimes thicker — and traces his lines in space. Lines that build a mental order, or develop into a tangle that slowly, relentlessly, evokes recognisable shapes.
His is a sculpture without volume and without weight. Everything leads back to essentiality, even in the most contaminated expressions by the truth.
Education
Laurea DAMS
Università di Torino, 2004
Training
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Stockholm
Materials
Wire · Iron · Stone · Wood
Practice
Sculpture · Installation
Site-specific · Performance
Art education
Carmine Leta, nel 2004 si laurea a Torino in D.A.M.S. discutendo una tesi dal titolo “Analisi del concetto di Nulla nell’opera di E. Munch e di A. Strindberg, fra il 1890 e il 1905”, con la prof.ssa Franca Varallo.
Tirocinante con Mauro Biffaro e con Emanuela De Cecco, presso la Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo di Torino, e presso l’Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Stoccolma.
Insegnante di Disegno e Storia dell’Arte; educatore e curatore di mostre e laboratori d’arte e arte/terapia.
La sua ricerca si è concentrata sulla scultura in fil di ferro, tesa alla sottrazione dei suoi stessi elementi costitutivi: il peso, la staticità e il volume. Essa ripropone oggetti vuoti, leggeri, mobili e attraversabili con lo sguardo, invitando chi osserva a colmare un volume solo suggerito e a mettere a fuoco una porzione illusoria di spazio fra sé e l’infinito.
A selection of sculptures, installations and site-specific works spanning two decades of research into emptiness, identity, and the dialogue between form and infinite space.
De Digitalium Limite.
Desiderio e Seduzione.
Floating Borders. Confini a galla..
La Verità.
Appesa al Filo.
Oltreuomo.
Oltreuomo.
La Promessa.
Genesi.
A Moebius Theme.
Antroposfera.
I Massimi Sistemi.
Sebastiano.
Trasmutazione.
Tre Quarti.
C’era la Pioggia… una pioggia scura.
Lassù.
Ombra.
Fauno.
Horror Vacui #2.
“He is a very passionate and curious person, two qualities I believe very necessary to an artist. I admire the energy he puts into his research and his life. I was personally very intrigued by his sculpture ‘De Digitalium Limite’.”
“Carmine’s is a sculpture without volume and weight that comes to the world per via di porre but also per via di levare — because everything leads back to essentiality, even in the most contaminated expressions by the truth.”
Roles & Experience
ongoing
Artist & Sculptor — Independent practiceSculpture, installation, site-specific works, performance
ongoing
Teacher — History of Art & Technical DrawingSecondary education; curator of didactic art workshops and art-therapy laboratories
2009–2018
Assistant to Maestro Paolo BuggianiInstallations and performances in Venice, Rome, Bomarzo and international venues
various
Set Props Technician — Film & TheatreScenography work for cinema and theatrical productions
2004
Laurea DAMS — Università di TorinoThesis: “Analisi del concetto di Nulla nell’opera di Munch e Strindberg, 1890–1905” — Prof. Franca Varallo
Training
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, TorinoWith Mauro Biffaro and Emanuela De Cecco
Training
Istituto Italiano di Cultura — Stockholm
Selected Exhibitions
Jan 2026
Rahmen der UnendlichkeitSolo exhibition — Sparkasse Findorff, Bremen, DE
Oct 2025
Lacrime di SabbiaArt residency exhibition, with Seung Baeg and Hyun Jin — OpenARTs spaceMERGE Gallery, Busan, South Korea
Jul 2025
Grancaro 2025Collective, curated by Francesca Perti e Mara van Wees — Bolsena VT
May 2025
BAW — Bracciano Art WeekCollective, curated by Maria L. Pustka — Bracciano, RM
Apr 2025
Art15 KunsthausCollective — Bremen, DE
2024
GartenCollective, curated by Idee di Gomma — Correggio, RE
2024
AphorismosInstallation — Libreria dei Salici, Viterbo
2023
OltreuomoBiennale Europea di Arte Fabbrile — Stia, AR
2023
Solo exhibitionCurated by Maria L. Pustka — Pescino 17 Gallery, Bracciano RM
2022
Qualcosa di troppoPermanent sculpture — TerrArte, Blera VT
2021
FloemaSolo exhibition — Palazzo del Drago, Bolsena VT
2021
CageVideo performance — OpenArtSpace Merge?, Busan, South Korea
2020
Come una reliquia in un’urna d’acquaBiennale di Viterbo, curated by L. Lucibello — Celleno VT
2019
Floating Borders. Confini a galla.Site-specific installation — Riace, RC
2018
Il giardino MagicoSolo exhibition, curated by P. Filacchione — Link Campus University, Roma
2018
De Digitalium LimitePermanent sculpture — La Serpara, Civitella d’Agliano VT
2017
Relaxed time tuningCuboid Gallery — Berlin
2015
Appesa al FiloPermanent installation — MAAM, Museo dell’Altro e dell’Altrove, Roma
2014
Group exhibitionGalleria Arthuus — Loenen, Netherlands
2013
ATTO ESTREMOAssistant to P. Buggiani — Arsenale Nord, Venice (Crossover, cur. A. Riva)
2012
Verso il VuotoSolo exhibition, curated by E. Acerbi — Square23 Gallery, Turin
2007–12
AforismaTravelling exhibition — Turin, Bari, Rome, Spoleto (Festival dei Due Mondi) and others
2006
TracceSolo exhibition, curated by E. Acerbi — Casa delle Culture, Cosenza
2004
Horror Vacui #12nd prize, sculpture — ArteeArti competition, Bussoleno TO
Available for commissions, exhibitions, collaborations and workshops