I’ve never called myself an artist; I came to the visual arts almost by accident. Everything I know about art I learned from Marcel Duchamp, who taught me that anything, including an object or an assembage, could be a work of art. — Joseph Pace
1. ESSENTIAL BIOGRAPHY
Joseph Pace (b. Morbegno, Italy) trained in Kinshasa, Rome and Paris where he studied law and Sociology with specializations in Social Science, and Psychoanalysis. He taught History of Sociology, Socioanalytic Counseling, and Sociology of Knowledge and Art at Sapienza University of Rome.
In 2018 and 2021, the Pantheon in Rome dedicated two major exhibitions to him, “Joseph Pace, Sacra Sacrorum” and “Joseph Pace, Ave Crux, Spes Una”. In 2014, the Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum of the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rome presented “Joseph Pace, L’Eva Futura”.
Founder of filtranisme, Pace is known for his paintings and jewelry sculptures, which were first installed in Brazil in 2014 at the Museu Afro-Brasil in São Paulo during the FIFA World Cup.
He taught History of Sociology and Sociology of Knowledge and Art at Sapienza University of Rome from 1996 to 2008.
3. FILTRANISME – ART AND PHILOSOPHY OF HUMAN FILTERS
Joseph Pace is one of the leading exponents of Filtranisme, the neo-existentialist philosophical and artistic movement he founded in Paris in the mid-1980s […]. His research explores the quantum dimention of matter. For Pace, things are not mere inanimate entities, but guardians of history, energy and memory that he brings back to light. — Mariastella Margozzi, National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rome.
3. MUSEUM AND INSTITUTIONAL EXHIBITIONS
Recent Exhibitions – Academia de Arte de Rio de Janeiro (2024), CRC of São Paulo (2023), Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum for the Decorative Arts (2022), National Archaeological Museum of Civitavecchia (2022), Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina (2022).
Selected Exhibitions – Pantheon of Rome (2021), Itapevì Art Museum (2021), Bardo National Museum of Tunis (2021), Copertino Castle (2021), CRC of São Paulo (2020), Boncompagni Ludovisi Museum for the Decorative Arts (2020), Itapevì Municipal Chamber (2020), Norman-Swabian Castle of Bari (2019), National Historical Library of Agriculture (2019), Pantheon of Rome (2018), Itapevì Municipal Chamber (2018), Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (2016), Florence Biennale (2015), Italian Circle of São Paulo (2015), Paradiso sul Mare of Anzio (2015), Afro-Brasil Museum of São Paulo (2014), Venanzo Crocetti Foundation Museum (2014), Italian Embassy in Brasilia (2013), Diocesan Museum of Amalfi (2013), CRC of São Paulo (2013), Italian Embassy in Brasilia and Octavio Cafè of São Paulo (2012), Forte Sangallo of Nettuno (2012), Municipal Theatre of Jaguariuna (2011), Forte Sangallo of Nettuno (2011), International Film Festival of Ostia (2010).
Sacred Art – Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina (2022, 2023), Pantheon in Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres (2021), Ministry of Agricultural Policies, National Historical Library of Agriculture (2019), Pantheon in Rome, Basilica of Santa Maria ad Martyres (2018), International Florence Biennale (2015), Diocesan Museum of Amalfi (2013).
4. PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Pantheon of Rome, Italy (.) Museum Boncompagni Ludovisi of Decorative Arts and Italian Fashion of the Galleria Nazionale di Arte Moderna of Rome, Italy (.) Museu de Arte do Parlamento de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (.) Diocesan Museum of Amalfi, Amalfi, Italy (.) Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil (.) Italian Embassy in Brasilia, Brazil (.) Camara Municipal de Itapevi, Brazil (.) Museu de Arte de Itapevi, Brazil (.) Basilica di San Lorenzo in Lucina, Rome, Italy (.) National Historical Library of Agriculture, Rome, Italy (.) Municipal Theater of Jaguariúna, Brazil (.) Prefeitura de Jaguariúna, Jaguariúna, Brazil (.) Circolo Italiano, Edificio Italia, São Paulo, Brazil (.) Museo Fondazione Venanzo Crocetti, Rome, Italy (.) Coleçao de Arte do CRC Conselho de Contabilitade do Estado de São Paulo, Brazil (.) Instituto de Recuperaçao do Patrimonio Historico no Estado de São Paulo, Brazil.
5. AWARDS AND INSTITUTIONS
He received numerous public recognitions notably from the University of Lorraine, University of Konstanz, IIC Italian Institute of Culture in São Paulo and Tunis, Parliament of the State of São Paulo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italian Embassy in Brasilia, Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of the State of São Paulo, Institute for the Recovery of Historical Heritage in the State of São Paulo (IPH), ANS National Association of Sociologists, Vatican, UNICEF, Museums and International Institutions.