Simoncini.Tangi

Simoncini.Tangi is an artistic duo born from the encounter between the scientific research of Pasquale Tangi and the artistic practice of Daniela Simoncini. Since 2006 they have lived and worked in Prato, developing an interdisciplinary path in which art, science, and nature converge into a shared reflection on time, transformation, and the relationships between living beings and their environment.

Daniela Simoncini (Poggibonsi, 1972) graduated in 1996 from the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, Painting Department, under Gianfranco Notargiacomo. She complements her artistic training with studies in theatre and voice with Gabriella Bartolomei, and contemporary dance with Cristina Bonati. Since 2003 she has deepened embodied practices such as Tai Chi, Yoga, and Feldenkrais with Butoh dancer Ran Ishiwa, developing a research on the body as a site of listening, perception, and relational awareness. Since 2020 she has been a member of the group Gina X.

Pasquale Tangi (Faeto, 1980) graduated in Industrial Engineering from the University of Florence in 2008. In 2019 he attended the Master’s programme Futuro Vegetale, conceived by neurobiologist Stefano Mancuso and Leonardo Chiesi, focusing on the connections between humans, the environment, and natural systems. The son of a watchmaker, he developed an acute sensitivity to mechanisms, rhythms, and gears as metaphors for natural processes. His vision of time—understood as the silent structure of matter and life—intertwines with Daniela’s explorations of the body and breath, giving shape to works capable of revealing the fragility, memory, and beauty of the invisible microcosms that sustain the world.

Among their main formative experiences are Manufatto in situ in Foligno (2010), in collaboration with Viaeindustriae, Neoncampobase, Caretto & Spagna, and international artists; the workshop Noi come Animali at P.A.V. in Turin (2012) with Piero Gilardi and Orietta Brombin; the laboratories Z.E.A. #02 | La Subida al Quemado and Z.E.A. #03 | Inventare Paesaggi Sociali in Milan (2014); and the Community Art project with Annie Raw, Giacomo Bazzani, and Francesca Catastini at Fondazione Vivarelli in Pistoia (2016).

In the following years, they further explored the design of green spaces and eco-sustainable gardens, participating in workshops with biologist Andrea Vannini and in the Start Park project with CUT | Circuito Urbano Contemporaneo, aimed at the regeneration of neighbourhood gardens in Prato. Between 2021 and 2024 they integrated artisanal and artistic skills, from goldsmith training with Master Andrea Giunti in Florence to Alessandra Ribaldone’s Raku ceramics workshop at the Open Air Museum Italo Bolano on the Island of Elba, consolidating a practice marked by technical experimentation and interdisciplinary research.

Their research focuses on processes of material transformation, micro-variations of light, and the rhythms of natural time, with particular attention to the fragility of ecosystems and the layered relationships between species, places, and human presence. Their work unfolds through installations, photography, video, artistic residencies, workshops, and participatory projects, creating sensory and experiential pathways that invite listening and contemplation.

Presented in museums, galleries, and public spaces in Italy and abroad, their works oscillate between microcosms and natural landscapes, between mechanisms and breath, between measurement and perception. Within this tension emerges a phenomenology of origins, in which time is not linear but organic and cyclical—birth, growth, transformation, and dissolution—becoming a shared space of memory, care, and responsibility toward the living world.

2025
“Dissolvenze. Corrispondere al tempo”Curated by Valentina Gensini. Fondazione MUS.E, RIVA Project, with the support of Fondazione CR Firenze and the Municipality of Florence.
In collaboration with Giardino dell’Orticoltura, Giardini di Villa Bardini, Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, and the University of Florence. With contributions by Giulia Torta (agronomist and forestry science specialist) and Davide Dal Sasso (Research Fellow in Aesthetics, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca).
M.A.D. – Murate Art District, Florence, Italy.

“Interlacement”, Curator Antonello Tolve. Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (IT)

2024
“Garten, or On Teeming Stillness” CuratOR Erica Romano and Alessandra Ribaldone. Exhibition and artist residency. Fondazione Italo Bolano, S.M.A.R.T. – Sistema Museale Arcipelago Toscano, Municipality of Portoferraio. Open Air Museum Italo Bolano, Portoferraio – Elba (IT)

“Disegnare Sentieri”, Artistic direction by Marco Mazzi. Villa Rondinelli, San Domenico – Florence

“Time Sculpture #Seed”, Curators Olivia Spatola and Manuela Valentini. Art City Bologna / Arte Fiera Bologna, courtesy Kyro Art Gallery. Marconi Business Lounge, Guglielmo Marconi Airport – Bologna (IT)

2023
“Natura Dentro”, Curated by Erica Romano and Alessandra Ribaldone. Fondazione Italo Bolano.
Open Studio Italo Bolano, Prato (IT)

2021
“[Orīgo]Phenomenology of Time”, Curated by Kyro Art Gallery. Artist’s book presentation. Kyro Art Gallery, Pietrasanta (IT)

“[Orīgo]. Phenomenology of Time”, curator Valentina Gensini, with Gaia Bindi and Federica Boràgina. Artist’s book presentation. M.A.D. – Murate Art District – Florence

2018
“Bio-facies”, curator Artforms, Rachel Morellet, and Pamela Gori, with a critical text by Gaia Bindi.
Artforms – Prato (IT)

2013

“Microcambiamenti” Arte e Territorio Project, Face Off Vol. 2. Curated by Ettore Favini and Dino Ferruzzi

C.R.A.C. – Centro di Ricerca Arte Contemporanea di Cremona, with the patronage of the Province of Cremona and G.A.I. Giovani Artisti Italiani. Teatro Monteverdi, Atrium Foyer – Cremona (IT)

2008
“Artist Presentation” Curated by Associazione Paradigma with Davide Mabellini, critical text by Dino Ferruzzi. Circolo degli Artisti, Palazzo Graneri della Roccia, Turin

“Reverie”, Curators Dino Ferruzzi and Gianna Paola Machiavelli, critical text by Dino Ferruzzi.
Liceo Artistico Bruno Munari / C.R.A.C. – Centro di Ricerca Arte Contemporanea – Cremona (IT)

2025
“Ideal City and the Other Germinations”, Curated by Sistema 3 and Penzo+Fiore, With the support of Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italian Ministry of Culture, Veneto Region, Fondazione Felice Onlus, and the programme Interconnected Nord-Est Innovation (Tourism, Culture and Creative Industries) – iNEST, Ministry of Economy and Finance, Ministry of University and Research. Villa Mocenigo – Alvisopoli (IT)

“Cantiere. Failure, Self-Sabotage, Corporations”, Curator Annalisa Cattani. Event exhibition.
Novella Guerra, Imola (IT)

“Preziose Miniature”, Curator by Stefania Balestri, with 66 Italian and international artists.
Salone Borromini, Rome, Italy. With the support of the Italian Ministry of Culture and Biblioteca Vallicelliana.

2024
“Cantiere”, Curator Annalisa Cattani, Novella Guerra, – Imola (IT)

“Walking #3”, Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (IT)

“Per via del tutto eccezionale”, Curator Antonello Tolve, in collaboration with Lavatoio Contumaciale (Rome), Kyro Art Gallery (Pietrasanta), Tomav Experience (Ancona), Galleria Matteo Ragni (Forlì), Bianco Contemporaneo (Rome), Fondazione Filiberto Menna – Rome

“Preziose Miniature”, Curator Stefania Balestri, with 66 Italian and international artists.
Archivio Storico, Palermo (IT)

2023
“Siamo Monadi, Siamo Nomadi”, Curator Antonello Tolve, artistic direction by Andrea Giusti. Produced by Tomav Experience with Fondazione Filiberto e Bianca Menna and Museo Venanzio Crocetti. Torre di Moresco – Centro Arti Visive – Moresco (IT)

“Group Show”, Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (LU)

“Capture”, Curated by Imboscata, Bosco di Sensoverde – Empoli (IT)

“Suites d’Autore”, organized by Kyro Art Gallery,text by Antonello Tolve. Il Duomo Pasticceria – Pietrasanta (IT)

2022
“Systema Naturæ #2”, Curator Anna Guillot, On The Contemporary – In the Garden, Palazzo Mazzone Alessi – Caltanissetta (IT)
“Microcosmo: Forms in Becoming. Vegetable and Mineral Alchemies”, curated by Kyro Art Gallery, critical text by Antonello Tolve, Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (IT)

“I Talk to the Trees”, Curated by Lavinia Paolini and Serena Scaramucci, Artiglieria Contemporary Art Center – Turin

“In-Trappola”, curator Gaia Bindi – Effetto Venezia – Livorno (IT)

“Systema Naturæ #1”, curators Anna guillot and Emanuela Nicoletti, On The Contemporary – In the Garden – Catania (IT)

2021
“Preludio”, Kyro Art Gallery – Pietrasanta (IT)

“The Art Chapter”, Curated by Boîte Editions. Conversation with Giulia Capodieci, Federica Boràgina, and Giulia Brivio. BASE Milano – Milan

“PerlaGina With Gina X”, Within Fuoriregistro #2: Bene Comune. Care Of, Fabbrica del Vapore – Milan

“Architettura Vegetale.0”, Project by Simoncini.Tangi and Aurora Fanti. Curated by CUT | Circuito Urbano Temporaneo and Associazione Riciclidea. In collaboration with Masc Collective, La Città Continua (Municipality of Prato – Youth Policies), Regione Toscana. Within Prato City Festival.
Sala Campolmi – Prato (IT)
2020

“Vicoli d’Arte”, Urban regeneration project. Curated by Vicoli d’Arte with Confartigianato Imprese Prato, CNA Toscana Centro, Palazzo delle Professioni, Unione Prato Imprese, Comitato Provinciale Area Pratese.
Vicolo Gherardacci – Prato (IT)

“Il Sesto Regno” With Eva Sauer. Scuola Popolare project. Curated by Angelika Stepken, Agnes Stillger, Davood Madadpoor, Ilaria Gadenz, and Carola Haupt (Radio Papesse). Villa Romana – Florence

“Casa delle Artiste, degli Artisti: Regalami una Parola”, Exhibition-performance curated by Gina X.
Casa degli Artisti – Milan

2019
“Manùs. In Praise of Fragility”, curator Novella Guerra, Maura Banfo, Annalisa Cattani, Susanna Ravelli, Studio65. The Necxt, 4th edition.Magazzini DOKSA Dora – Turin

“House of Relationships”, Curated by Novella Guerra

“The Necxt”, 3rd editio, Magazzini DOKSA Dora – Turin

“Reset Performance – 24 Hours”, Curated by Alessandra Borsetti Venier and Elisa Zadi.
With Murat Onol, Nicola Bertoglio, Niusha Inuiashi; curatorial participation by Annalisa Cattani.
La Barbagianna – Casa per l’Arte Contemporanea, Pontassieve (IT)

2017

“Io Vedo, Io Guardo” (Round Table), curator Annalisa Cattani, with the collaboration of Dino Ferruzzi and Gianna Paola Machiavelli. Artforms, Spazio MDT, Novella Guerra, Imola (IT)

“Giardini d’Oriente”, Aula Magna, PIN – Polo Universitario Città di Prato – Prato (IT)

“WOM – Mercatino d’Arte”, Curated by Artforms and Corte via Genova, Artforms – Prato (IT)

2016
“Io Vedo, Io Guardo”, Curator Annalisa Cattani, with the collaboration of Dino Ferruzzi and Gianna Paola Machiavelli. Artforms / Spazio MDT, Salone della Bandiera, Dopolavoro Ferroviario – Cremona (IT)

“Dialogues en Humanité”, Curated by Associazione Cieli Aperti and Associazione Riciclidea.
With the participation of Regione Toscana, Municipality of Prato, PIN, Consulta Provinciale degli Studenti.
Teatro Magnolfi – Prato (IT)

“Rosso di Donna – Scarpe Rosse 1522”, curator Alessandra Borsetti Venier, Biblioteca Lazzerini – Prato (IT)

“49th Suzzara Prize – No Place.Place”, Concept by Umberto Cavenago, with the collaboration of Ermanno Cristini. Centro Culturale Piazzalunga – Suzzara (IT)

“Incontri d’Arte – XXV International Exhibition”, Curator Alessandra Borsetti Venier. La Barbagianna – Casa per l’Arte Contemporanea – Pontassieve (IT)

“Dress Codex. Contemporary Urgencies in the Form of a Magazine”, Curated by Bau – Contenitore di Cultura Contemporanea and Paola Raffo. Galleria Paola Raffo – Pietrasanta (IT)

“Art Garden 2016”, Curated by Associazione Hyeart. Giardino dell’Orticoltura – Florence (IT)

“Serate Illuminate”, Curator Riccardo Bargellini. Centro Basaglia – Livorno (IT)

“re.si.lien.za”, Curated by Collettivo Superazione, Three-day performance programme.
Fornaci Pasquinucci, – Capraia (IT)

“Teach Back (Teaching in Return)”, Curator Dino Ferruzzi. Crowdfunding project for C.R.A.C. – Centro di Ricerca Arte Contemporanea di Cremona. Fabbrica del Vapore – Milan (IT)

“Dress Codex. Contemporary Urgencies in the Form of a Magazine”, Curated by Bau, Antonino Bove, and Vittore Barone. G.A.M.C. – Galleria d’Arte Moderna Lorenzo Viani – Viareggio (IT)

2015
“Terra, Cielo e Buoni Talenti”, Curated by ESP and Manuela Mancioppi, BORSE NERE project –
Villa Demidoff, Pratolino (IT)

“Io Vedo, Io Guardo”, Curator Annalisa Cattani. Fundraising project for C.R.A.C. – Centro di Ricerca Arte Contemporanea di Cremona. Artforms / Spazio MDT – Prato (IT)

“Twocalls – Dolomiti Contemporanee”, Curator by Gianluca D’Incà Levis, Fondazione Vajont – Vajont (IT)

“Italia Mon Amour. Mia Cara Curitiba”, Curator Gaia Bindi. Sesc Água Verde, Curitiba – Brazil

2013
“Movimenti – Video Art Festival”, Curator Cecilia Guida. Art Garden – Florence

“La Natura, l’Acqua e le Donne: La Donna e la Riabilitazione”, Curated by Arte in Movimento, Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea – Lucca (IT)

2011
“Organismi”, curator Giovanni Viceconte. Video Art Review, Arthub

“Le Idee che ci Cambiano la Vita – Festival della Creatività”, Curated by Youth Policies, Municipality of Prato.
Castello dell’Imperatore – Prato (IT)

“Manufatto in situ”, Curated by Viaeindustriae, Emanuele De Donno, Neoncampobase, Parco per l’Arte di Cancelli – Foligno (IT)

“Networking 2009: Back to the Present”, Curators Elisa Del Prete and Gabriele Tosi. Officina Giovani – Prato (IT)

“De Industria”, curators Francesco De Luca with Teresa Fuligna, Museum of Architecture, Fermignano (IT)

“Espacio Enter”, International Festival of Creativity and Digital Culture, Auditorium of Tenerife (TEA), Tenerife – Spain

2007
“Zooart. Artistic Itineraries at Giardini Fresia”, Curators Michela Guggia, Domenico Olivero, and Paolo Sasia.
Giardini Fresia – Cuneo (IT)

“Segni 20×20”, Curator Delia Gianti, Spazio 21 – Turin

Open Air Museum Italo Bolano – Portoferraio (IT)

Collezione Carlo Palli, Centro Pecci – Prato (IT)

Villa Rondinelli – San Domenico (IT)

Sesc Água Verde, Curitiba – Brasil

Circolo degli artisti, Palazzo Graneri della Roccia -Turin

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