Niele Toroni

Place: Muralto

Born: 1937

Biography:

Niele Toroni is a Swiss painter born in Muralto in 1937. He lives and works in Paris. Toroni started his practice called 'Travail-Peinture' in 1966, which consists of brushstrokes made with imprints of a no. 50 paintbrush repeated at perpendicular 30 centimeter intervals. He first showed this method at a debut in 1967 in Paris at an exhibition-performance at the Salon de la Jeune Peinture in the Musèe d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. That same year, Toroni founded the BMPT (art group) together with Daniel Buren, Olivier Mosset, and Michel Parmentier. Toroni's works are part of major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg; the Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin; the Kunstmuseum Luzern; Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich. He received the Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen in 2017, the Prix Meret Oppenheim in 2012, the Wolfgang Hahn Prize, Cologne, Germany in 2003 and the French Vermeil Medal, awarded by the City of Paris in 2001.