Giancarlo Neri was born in Naples, Italy in 1955. He moved to New York in 1978 to play professional football.
Neri studied painting and sculpture at the Art Students League of New York, and became a full-time artist in 1980.
He had his first solo gallery show at the Kornblee Gallery in 1983, and has been working on large-scale site-specific installations in the United States,
Europe, and Brazil since 1982. Neri returned to Naples in 1997, where he worked on a series of sculptures and installations in a dismantling steel plant.
He currently lives and works in Rome. This artist, who is celebrated in Italy, but underexposed in the United States.

Latest great work by Giancarlo Neri as stated in this 2005 news realease:

PRESS RELEASE: 7 April 2005 30ft sculpture to occupy Hampstead Heath during summer 2005 – a monument to the
loneliness of writing 'The Writer' – a monumental sculpture by Italian artist Giancarlo Neri is to be installed on
Parliament Hill Fields, Hampstead Heath from 22 June to 9 October 2005.

This installation will mark the official launch of ROLLO Contemporary Art, and will coincide with a five-week solo
exhibition of Giancarlo Neri’s smaller sculptures and photographs of 'The Writer' at ROLLO’s Islington gallery, until
27July 2005. From June until October 2005, Parliament Hill Fields will be the setting for Neri’s installation: a giant
table and chair reaching 30 ft in height, a work aptly described by the artist as, ‘a monument to the loneliness of
writing’. Neri will challenge the notion of the writer’s inherently private work place by installing the sculpture in one
of the most public of contexts - Hampstead Heath – an ideal location because of its local literary traditions.

Simon Gillespie, Director of ROLLO, states, ‘I am delighted to be representing Giancarlo in the UK. He is
internationally renowned for his large installation pieces and it is exciting to be extending his reputation by bringing
his work to the UK. For me, 'The Writer' works on many different levels but succinctly, it summarises the pressure
one can feel in front of a blank page. I believe that 'The Writer' and Neri’s exhibition at ROLLO will encourage a
greater interplay between sculpture and the general public. ROLLO looks forward to working on future large-scale
installations in imaginative locations outside the commercial gallery space.’

Roberta Cremoncini, Director of the Estorick Collection comments that, ‘It is great to see a new organisation like ROLLO
being so active in their support of outside projects. There is a long legacy of Italian artists exhibiting in Great Britain
and I am delighted to see this initiative coming to fruition.’Giancarlo Neri,his strangely surreal chair installations stretching from
Washington to Capri have earned him an international reputation. Reminiscent of Dada, these works challenge our own conception of
familiar everyday objects which seem to take on a new physicality and identity. 'The Writer' is no exception.

Giancarlo Neri

At one time he played professional soccer for the New York Apollo of the American Soccer League.

Perhaps his best known work is The Writer a 9 metre high table and chair made from steel plated with wood, a piece about writer's block. It has been exhibited in Rome and on Hampstead Heath in London in 2005

Selected Exhibitions

2007 Saturday, 8 September 2007
Massimo Silenzio by Giancarlo Neri

Bubble lights "Massimo Silenzio"
Massimo Silenzio is an installation by Giancarlo Neri using 10,000 luminous globes placed directly on the ground filling Circo Massimo in Rome. The globes slowly change colour and fade throughout the night.

The installation opened yesterday evening on the eve of tonight's Notte Bianca and will be visible every evening until September 11th
 
2005    GIANCARLO NERI, Urban Center, Monza, Italy 
 
2005    THE WRITER, Hampstead Heath, London 
 
2005    RECENT WORKS, ROLLO Contemporary Art, London 
 
2004    OTTO, Studio Angeletti, Rome 
 
2004    INCONTRI…, Villa Medici, Rome (group show) 
 
2003    STUDIO ANGELETTI, Rome (group show) 
 
2003    LO SCRITTORE, Villa Ada, Rome 
 
2003    CADEIRA ILUSTRE, Castelinho do Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro 
 
2002    NAPOLI DA LONTANO, Carlo Rendano Foundation, Naples 
 
2001    GIANCARLO NERI, SMIT, Rome 
 
2000    OURO, Museu da Republica, Rio de Janeiro 
 
2000    LA FABBRICA A PALAZZO, Royal Palace, Naples 
 
1998    L’ISOLA DI PASQUALE, Infobox Italsider, Naples 
 
1998    PREMIO MALAPARTE, Certosa di Capri (group show) 
 
1997    STELLARIUM, Incontri Internazionali d’Arte, Naples (group show) 
 
1997    E VENNE IN UNA GROTTA, Diodato studio, Rome (group show) 
 
1997    CAVALLONE, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples 
 
1996    STUDIO DIODATO, Rome 
 
1995    GIANCARLO NERI, Adirondacks Colllege, Glenns Falls, New York 
 
1995    THE MURRAY COLLECTION, The Hyde collection , Glens Falls, N.Y. (group show) 
 
1994    SEDIE SUL MARE, Positano bay, Italy 
 
1992    FIATOYOTALADA, Lista Fyr, Norway 
 
1992    IL GOAL IMPOSSIBIL, Spoleto, Italy 
 
1991    180 SEDIE A CAPRI, Capri, Italy 
 
1991    H.T. (Holy Tunnel), Canal st, Tribeca, New York 
 
1991    P.S.1 international studio program exhibititon, P.S.1, New York (group show) 
 
1990    GRAND TOUR, travelling exhibition, U.S.A. and Italy (group show) 
 
1990    153 SEDIE, Mostra d’Oltremare, Naples 
 
1990    A MONUMENT TO BUREUCRACY, International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C. 
 
1989    STILL NIGHT, Clocktower gallery (P.S.1), Leonard st., New York 
 
1988    VEDI NAPOLI E POI NERI, Palazzo Marigliano, Naples 
 
1988    GIANCARLO NERI, V.S.V. gallery, Turin 
 
1988    NOVELUNE, Greenwich Village, New York 
 
1988    STUDIO E, Rome (group show) 
 
1988    V.S.V.gallery, Turin (group show) 
 
1987    SIEGEL gallery, New York (group show) 
 
1986    BORDERS Canadian cultural centre, Rome (group show) 
 
1986    NASI COMUNICANTI, Studio E gallery, Rome 
 
1985    KORNBLEE GALLERY, New York 
 
1985    PARALLEL WINDOW, W 15th Street, New York 
 
1985    JERRY MARCUS SMITH gallery, Dallas (group show) 
 
1985    KORNBLEE GALLERY, New York (group show) 
 
1985    STUDIO E, Rome (group show) 
 
1984    KORNBLEE GALLERY, New York (group show) 
 
1984    L’OVO DI NAPOLI, Castel dell’Ovo, Naples 
 
1984    DIAGRAMMA INGA-PIN, Milan 
 
1983    KORNBLEE GALLERY, New York 
 
1983    KOPLIN GALLERY, Los Angeles (group show) 
 
1982    KORNBLEE GALLERY, New York (group show) 
 
1982    ESAME FINESTRA, Union square, New York 
 
1980    PROFILE GALLERY, New York (group show)
 

So good luck bidding this is a very nice Painting Dated  , 11-5-88

Size: 18 3/4" by 13"

* Note all my Art is sold as is condition.

** Neri also has one piece of art called The Annunciation in the Permenent Collection of The Hyde Collection.

*** 4 small tack marks in each corner.