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Mito Canova

Mito Canova (born in 1970, Rome, Italy) is a contemporary italian artist living and working in New York City. He completed his BA and MA at NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano), an innovative Arts and Design Academy and dynamic artistic and cultural centre in Milan. Mito Canova is internationally renowned, and is also known as one of the richest living italian artists. He is represented in London by Serpentine Gallery,in New York by New Museum of Contemporary Art, in Paris by Yvon Lambert Gallery and in Milan by Massimo De Carlo Gallery.

Works
Canova started working as a freelance designer, but now his oeuvre involves only artworks for galleries and bienale spaces. He tries not to participate in group exhibitions, because he believes, that group exhibitions destroys harmony that is carried by the artwork. M. Canova oeuvre is manifold and ambiguous. Canova employs nontraditional materials to create active and dynamic exhibits, most commonly as installations. His creative practices include deprivation of sleep, deep analysis of human perception and impact that media has on it. Artist intension is to create works that would erase the boundaries between viewer and the artwork itself: „Viewer has to come near my work, to enter it“. Conception of the artwork is not important for artist. According to Canova, conception is nothing if one does not have goods skills: „Art is a skill and act of choosing is a creation“.