Massimo De Carlo (London)

Massimo De Carlo gallery was founded in 1987. It shortly stands out on the artistic scene for some courageous and counter-current choices: giving importance to artists not so known in Italy at that time, such as John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Steven Parrino and Carsten Höller, it was for sure a bid.
In the following few years Massimo De Carlo gallery program included young and prominent artists such as Alighiero Boetti, Cady Noland, Rudolf Stingel, and Felix Gonzalez-Torres. For over 30 years Massimo De Carlo played a fundamental role in introducing Italian artists to European and American audiences as well as bringing the most interesting voices of American art to the Italian scene promoting the establishment of a vital dialogue between the artists and National and International institutions, promting also relationships between galleries, critics, curators and collectors. Massimo De Carlo works with versatile artists, nationally and internationally successfull, who work with a variety of media in an extraordinary combination of painting, drawing, installation, sculpture, photography, performance, and video. In the years, the gallery’s artists such as cui Maurizio Cattelan, Rudolf Stingel, Piotr Uklański, Diego Perrone, Paola Pivi and Yan Pei-Ming, have all gained International recognition, have been shown in galleries, museums and biennials in Europe and in the United States and have gained an oustanding place into important public and private collections.

In 2019 Massimo De Carlo has acquired a new iconic building in the centre of Milan, which has become the epicentre of its activities after undergoing a philological restoration.
The new gallery is situated in Viale Lombardia 17 in the building known as Casa Corbellini Wassermann, which was built in the early 1930s (1934-1936) by the renowned Italian architect Piero Portaluppi (19 March 1888 – 6 July 1967).
One of the most famous projects by Portaluppi, the once domestic space is characterised by a careful use of precious materials – such as different types of marbles for both the interior and exterior – and is one of the finest examples of Milanese rationalist architecture. The spiral staircase on the exterior of the building, for example, had been used for the “Casa del Sabato per gli sposi”, shown at the Milan's Triennale dedicated to residential architecture in 1933 by Portaluppi and the BBPR Studio.