| Born in Cologne in 1967, Carlo Bach lives and works in Trieste.
His main concern is with the patient work of recovering and 'recycling' industrial residue and abandoned objects - literal, authentic objets trouvés carefully re-inventoried and re-described. So, for example, the artist works upon old rusty lamps which, by means of hidden sources of light and the insertion of old, yellowing photographs, are transformed into meaningful and evocative memories. Recollection and memory are the themes around which the entire work of Carlo Bach revolves: as in the lamps, so in the sand castles, those 'first', ephemeral artistic forms of our childhood, which he encloses in solid showcases of glass and iron, thereby turning them into oxymoronic presences of at once solidity and fragility; but also in an old wooden wardrobe or a clock. |
| Carlo Bach - Selected Group Exhibitions | |
2012 |
Il fuoco della Natura/ The flash of Nature, Salone degli Incanti -Ex Pescheria, Trieste (Italy) |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| Io sono, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
2011 |
Interlocutori dell'imperfetto, SPAC Villa Toppo Florio, Buttrio ( UD ) (Italy) |
| O'Clock. Design del tempo, tempo del design, Triennale Design Museum, Milano (Italy) | |
2002 |
MiArt, Milano, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) |
| Arte Fiera , Bologna, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
2001 |
MiArt, Milano, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) |
| Arte Fiera , Bologna, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
| Chairs in Contemporary Art, Civici Musei del Castello di Udine, Udine (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne , Köln, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Germany) | |
| Artissima, Torino, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
2000 |
Istituto Italiano di Cultura, New York (USA) |
| Still in Motion, Palazzo Frisacco, Tolmezzo, Udine (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera , Bologna, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
| ARCO, Madrid, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Spain) | |
| Zone d'Arte , Alpen Adria Galerie, Klagenfurt (Austria) | |
| Artissima, Torino, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
| Art Brussels, Brussels, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Belgium) | |
| Art Cologne, Köln, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Germany) | |
1999 |
Bel tempo, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (Hungary) |
| Art Brussels, Brussels, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Belgium) | |
| Hic et nunc, Antico Ospedale dei Battuti, San Vito al Tagliamento (Italy) | |
| Universi Paralleli, SMAU Fiera di Milano, Milano (Italy) | |
| Mir, arte nello spazio, Museo Civico di Bolzano, Bolzano (Italy) | |
| Art Cologne, Köln, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Germany) | |
| Still in Motion, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Atlante, geografia e storia della giovane arte , MACS, Sassari (Italy) | |
1998 |
Paris Photo, Paris, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (France) |
| Art Cologne '98, Köln, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Germany) | |
| Nothing But...Flowers II, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Nothing But...Flowers, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Gramercy International Art Fair, New York, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (USA) | |
| Art Frankfurt '98, Frankfurt, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Germany) | |
| Blue, Spazio Libero per l'arte, Cineplex , Porto Antico, Genova (Italy) | |
1997 |
Especčs d'espaces, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
| Eclectic Fragmentation, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York (USA) | |
| Zone d'arte - Alterazioni del quotidiano, Palazzo Costanzi , Trieste (Italy) | |
| MadreNatura, Palazzo Martinitt, Milano (Italy) | |
| Ezra Pound e le Arti, Palazzo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milano (Italy) | |
| Paris Photo, Paris, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (France) | |
1996 |
Partito Preso, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy) |
| Summer Group Show, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Group Show, Galleria Bonomo, Roma (Italy) | |
| Nuove Contaminazioni, Civici Musei, Udine (Italy) | |
| O.A.G., Palazzo Frangipane, Tarcento (Italy) | |
| Arte Fiera, Bologna, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
| Natura Naturans, Museo di Storia Naturale, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Group Show, Galleria Bonomo, Roma (Italy) | |
1995 |
Arte a PN, Galleria LipanjePunitn artecontemporanea, Pordenone (Italy) |
| MiArt, Milano, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
| Achtung auf den Zug, Museo Ferroviario, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Il Giardino dell'arte, Torino (Italy) | |
| Artissima, Torino, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
1994 |
Palazzo Costanzi, Trieste (Italy) |
| Artisti a PN, Galleria dei Ventaglio, Pordenone (Italy) | |
1993 |
Il divenire del segno, Palazzo Alberti, Rovereto (Italy) |
| Artisti a PN, Gruppo 78, (Italy) | |
1992 |
Esperimento Positivo, Tolmezzo (Italy) |
| Berghof, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Arte 3, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Corale, Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia (Italy) | |
1991 |
Arte Giovane, Palazzo Costanzi , Trieste (Italy) |
| III Selezione Triveneta, Padova (Italy) | |
| Carlo Bach - Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
2011 |
Time will tell, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italia) |
1999 |
Arte Fiera, Bologna, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) |
1998 |
Galerie Angelo Falzone, Mannheim (Germany) |
| Arte Fiera, Bologna, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
| Strada facendo..., Civico Museo Revoltella, Trieste (Italy) | |
1997 |
Artissima, Torino, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) |
| Arte Fiera , Bologna, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Italy) | |
| Galleria Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padova (Italy) | |
1996 |
Partito Preso, Galeria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Roma (Italy) |
| Art Cologne , Köln, Galleria LipanjePuntin artecontempoeanea (Germanu) | |
| Il recupero...lo sguardo, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Galleria Ciocca Contemporanea, Milano (Italy) | |
1994 |
Galleria del Ventaglio, Udine (Italy) |
| Juliet, Trieste (Italy) | |
1993 |
Philips Licht, Köln (Germany) |
1992 |
Teatro Miela, Trieste (Italy) |
1991 |
Petin e Pete, Treviso (Italy) |
| Sala Comunale, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Casa Veneta, Muggia (Italy) | |